by Rev. Daien Tsutomu Haseo

A Japanese priest’s Obon
Sermon for the Service of Obon 

by Dr. Bloom

Obon and Family Values
Obon Festival
Obon: A Festival of Memory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japanese volunteers place candle-lit lanterns into the Sasebo River during Japan’s
annual summer Bon Festival—Obon festival. Illuminated by the Albuquerque Bridge,
in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan — on August 15, 2004.

(U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Ian W. Anderson)