At Obon cucumbers and eggplants, given small wooden legs, begin to appear at family altars and graves.

It is said the cucumber is a horse, racing the dead quickly back to this world.
The eggplant is an oxen, slowly but reliably carrying spirits back home.

#cucumber #eggplant#Obon #お盆

🥒AN UNUSUAL FORM OF TRANSPORTATION🍆

Invited by bells and flames, the spirits of the dead are currently holidaying in this world.

But how do ancestral spirits travel between realms?
Probably not how you imagine😂...

🥒 🐎 (arriving by 'spirit horse' 精霊馬)
🍆 🐂 (returning via 'spirit ox' 精霊牛)

#obon #お盆 #summer #eggplant #cucumber