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Why Do We Celebrate Obon?: A Fun, Educational, and Illustrated Holiday Book for Kids and Curious Minds About Japan's Festival of Ancestors
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Series: Celebrations for Kids
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ISBN13: 9798192177129
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Follow the lantern light into a beautiful Japanese celebration of family, memory, and love! Why do families make tiny horses from cucumbers and cows from eggplants? Why do dancers circle a lantern-covered tower while taiko drums echo through the night? Why Do We Celebrate Obon? introduces young readers to one of Japan's most meaningful summer traditions. During Obon, families welcome and remember their ancestors through home decorations, grave visits, food, stories, dances, and glowing lights. The customs are thoughtful, joyful, and filled with ways for every generation to take part. Here is what you will discover inside:
- Welcoming the Ancestors: Learn how chōchin (paper lanterns) and mukaebi (welcoming fires) are used to guide visiting spirits toward the family home.
- A Story with Buddhist Roots: Meet Mokuren, the Buddha's disciple whose loving effort to help his mother is connected with traditional explanations of Obon.
- Meaningful Family Customs: Visit a decorated shōryōdana (spirit shelf), make cucumber horses and eggplant cows, and place flowers, fruit, tea, and dango rice dumplings as offerings.
- Caring for Family Graves: Join ohaka-mairi (grave visits) as families wash memorial stones, light incense, bow, and remember loved ones together.
- Bon Odori (Bon Dance): Circle a lantern-covered yagura tower, hear powerful taiko drums, wear a light summer yukata robe, and copy easy community dance steps.
- Spectacular Traditions: See giant fire shapes glow on Kyoto's mountains, dance until sunrise at Gujo Odori, and share cold noodles and watermelon with relatives.
- Visual Delight: Enjoy beautiful, minimalist colorful illustrations filled with lanterns, summer robes, river reflections, family altars, dancers, and warm memories.
- A Gentle Farewell: Discover okuribi (send-off fires) and tōrō nagashi (floating lanterns), when lights drift across the water to guide ancestors back. Perfect for families, classrooms, homeschoolers, and curious children, this book celebrates remembrance, storytelling, gratitude, and the bonds connecting generations. Grab your copy today and let the lanterns guide your journey!
- A Story with Buddhist Roots: Meet Mokuren, the Buddha's disciple whose loving effort to help his mother is connected with traditional explanations of Obon.
- Meaningful Family Customs: Visit a decorated shōryōdana (spirit shelf), make cucumber horses and eggplant cows, and place flowers, fruit, tea, and dango rice dumplings as offerings.
- Caring for Family Graves: Join ohaka-mairi (grave visits) as families wash memorial stones, light incense, bow, and remember loved ones together.
- Bon Odori (Bon Dance): Circle a lantern-covered yagura tower, hear powerful taiko drums, wear a light summer yukata robe, and copy easy community dance steps.
- Spectacular Traditions: See giant fire shapes glow on Kyoto's mountains, dance until sunrise at Gujo Odori, and share cold noodles and watermelon with relatives.
- Visual Delight: Enjoy beautiful, minimalist colorful illustrations filled with lanterns, summer robes, river reflections, family altars, dancers, and warm memories.
- A Gentle Farewell: Discover okuribi (send-off fires) and tōrō nagashi (floating lanterns), when lights drift across the water to guide ancestors back. Perfect for families, classrooms, homeschoolers, and curious children, this book celebrates remembrance, storytelling, gratitude, and the bonds connecting generations. Grab your copy today and let the lanterns guide your journey!
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