Kami akari means "Lights of god".
The candles are present from the god in far mountain, Sobo yama mountain in Takeda city, Oita prefecture. The god's name is Toyotama hime (豊玉姫).
Oita prefecture is in Kyushu island, the south island in Japan.
This festival had started five years ago, and there are 8,000 lamps in the shrine this year.
As I wrote in past article in my blog, the people have relationships with Kyushu island.
The ancestor came from Kyushu island.
Kamikouchi （上高地）, the beautiful mountain field guarded by ancient ocean god (Boat festival held at Myoujin pond / 明神池, Hodaka temple / 穂高神社)
Not only watching the lights, people were praying at main shrine.
I did, too!
In closer look, the lamps were like this.
There was small sized shrine here.
The picture and texts are carved to bamboo.
As the lights were not electric, so I thought they are soft and gentle.
As it was so beautiful, I felt like hard to leave the place.
It's getting cold in this few days in Japan.
Please take care not to catch a cold.
Thank you for reading!
Have a nice weekend!
穂高神社, 安曇野, 神竹灯
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