• 2025.6.25

[Ota Ward School] Commentary on the July 1, 2025 issue

What is Ota Ward Studies?

Through YouTube and quizzes, you can have fun learning about the depth that exists in a wide range of fields such as Ota City's history, culture, famous places, traditions, and food, which are familiar but unknown to you.
The quiz will be published every month in the 11st issue of Ota Ward News. (January issue only 21/XNUMX combined issue)

　[July 1, 2020 issue issue]

What is the event that takes place every year on July 7th at Senzoku Pond to honor ancestors?

answer　Floating Lanterns at Senzokuike Pond

Floating lanterns on Senzoku Pond

[Explanation]

The Senzokuike lantern festival is held to ensure that the souls of the deceased do not get lost on the way home.600At night, the sight of countless lit lanterns floating in Senzoku Pond, casting their warm, soft light on the water's surface, is a mystical sight.

(In case of rain, lanterns will be lit in the grounds of Myofukuji Temple.)