About obon - Part 4
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August is a hot, humid month in Japan (one of too many!). The most comfortable of the
socially acceptable things to wear is a
yukata, a colorful light cotton kimono.
The part of obon that the younger children (okay, AND the older "children") enjoy the most is lighting hanabi (firecrackers/fireworks, literally "flowery fire"). There is a constant hissing, popping and cracking over the course of the evening. |