Hiking Daimonji

Last week Jeffrey Friedl invited me to go hiking with him, his mother-in-law and friend Katsunori Shimada. We went up to the top of Daimonji-yama, and then down to the place where the fires are lit. the day was quite hazy, so there wasn’t much view out over the city, but the mountain trails provided plenty of close-up scenery. When we got to the “Hidokoro” where the kanji “dai” ( 大 ) is lit every August 16, there were several people picnicing there at each fire platform.