About 130,000 spectators were enchanted to watch the annual grass burning on Mount Wakakusa here on Sunday night.Check out that picture! I'd like to go see this someday.
Officials in Nara set off some 200 fireworks at about 6 p.m., and then set fire to dead grass remaining on the face of Mount Wakakusa.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Ritual mountain-burning
Apparently in Nara, they burn down all the grass on Mt. Wakakusa once a year. From Mainichi:
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