The rainy season was over last week and We have hot days. The temperature goes up more than 35 degrees every day in Tokyo.
I visited Daikan Yashiki in Setagaya ward today. The place was a house of local manager in the Edo era.
It has a straw roof. There are many old and tall trees in the garden.
We could find fireflies in many places in Tokyo (including Setagaya) until the 1950-60s. People enjoyed watching the small lights floating in the dark air in summer. They disappeared after the 1960s because of environment pollution.
People started movements in many places in Tokyo to recover the environment where the fireflies can survive. Setayaga’s firefly festival is organized in such moves.
A bon festival was held in a small local shrine near Daikan Yashiki.
Similar summer feativals and activities are held and planned in many places in Tokyo.
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