Obon Part Two-Sending Away Fires (Okuribi) (Ep. 9)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
English - August 15, 2017 00:00 - 16 minutes - 15.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture History japan hyperbolicparaboloid japanese japaneseculture japanesefolklore japanesefolktales japanesehistory japaneselanguage japaneseliterature japanesemyths Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 8: Obon Part One-On Cucumber Horses They Ride
Next Episode: Episode 10: Hungry Ghosts (Gaki)
This month's podcast is Obon Part Two, the time when you have to send ol' grandma and grandpa back to the World of the Dead. There are various ways of doing this. I talk about two, the chill, mellow way and the flinging-balls-of-fire-into-the-air way.
Notes: The intro/outro music of Uncanny Japan is a piece by Christiaan Virant (“Yi Gui” from Ting Shuo). The whole album is just gorgeous as it everything else by FM3.
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