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Updated: August 13, 2024
'Oh, that is only insects, says Akira, laughing; 'nothing to do with the Bonku. Insects, yes! in cages! The shrilling is made by scores of huge green crickets, each prisoned in a tiny bamboo cage by itself.
There is no fish, she says, 'for to-day is the first day of the Bonku, the Festival of the Dead; being the thirteenth day of the month. On the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth of the month nobody may eat fish. But on the morning of the sixteenth day, the fishermen go out to catch fish; and everybody who has both parents living may eat of it.
From the 13th to the 15th day of July is held the Festival of the Dead the Bommatsuri or Bonku by some Europeans called the Feast of Lanterns.
'Yes, will you come to my room? asks Akira. 'It is not far in the Street of the Aged Men, beyond the Street of the Stony River, and near to the Street Everlasting. There is a butsuma there a household shrine -and on the way I will tell you about the Bonku. So, for the first time, I learn those things which I am now about to write.
But as Shinto family worship has its special annual festival, which endures from the first to the third day of the new year, so Buddhist ancestor-worship has its yearly Bonku, or Bommatsuri, lasting from the thirteenth to the sixteenth day of the seventh month. This is the Buddhist Feast of Souls.
And beyond these, through the warm dusk, I see lights, coloured lights, the lanterns of the Bonku, suspended before each home to welcome the coming of beloved ghosts; for by the antique calendar, according to which in this antique place the reckoning of time is still made, this is the first night of the Festival of the Dead.
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