From Japan, with Love: Cicada’s Evening Song

Entry #006:

2021 August 12

This microseason we enter Obon. Obon is a multi-day event that has Buddhist origins. We welcome our ancestors back home, and then send them off again. This time of year we find cucumbers and eggplants with wooden legs. The cucumber resembles a horse, and the eggplant resembles a cow. It is said that our ancestors are sent a horse with their long legs and swift gallops to quickly bring them back home. And we send our ancestors off on a cow to slowly part again, and to carry the many gifts we share. This is also the season when we are highly aware of the cicada, with their high pitched songs. Cicadas grow beneath the earth for 7 years, and live above the earth for a mere 7 days. No wonder they are so vocal. The cicada during Obon days remind us of birth, life, and death.

♡ momoko

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August 12 - 17

Autumn > First of Autumn > Cicada’s Evening Song

Are you expressing your truth today? Singing the song that is uniquely your own?