Obon, One of Japanese traditional event which meaning welcoming dead ancestors

In Japan, there are s lot of traditinal event. Obon is one of that.
To welcome back our ancestors, you should get ready decorations.
Above picture is some of that. Ancestors come to on the seat and 2 days stay there.
They come there by riding cucumber horse, and go back by eggplant cow. As descendants, we burn branch on the plate beside entrance. Dead ancestor get notice smoke which their descendants fire. And trail that to right home.
The seat means on the water. Dead people can't come back on the ground. They usually live in heaven, we call there, higan, means that world. So to meet them and stay this world, we ready place, Nakasora. Nakasora means the middle of living world and heaven. The seat is made by using water grass.

Each vegetables has also meanings.  In these kind of event, temple and shrine, we use five color.
White, red, blue, purple, yellow. This is basic one. All color have meanings.

In this Obon's decolation,　White is peach, red is water melon, yellow is grape, purple is eggplant.
And blue is cucumber. Old days, Japanese people said blue which color was green. This weird calling is still remain in traffic signal. When I was a kid, my mom told me when a traffic signal turns blue, we could start walking. But there isn't any color of blue in traffic signal as all country alike.
I was confusing! Hahaha.

An ogre means fire. Fire should be put right side, and flower should be put lest side. In this decoration, instead of real flower, I put a paper which has flower print.

After two days stay, they go back to heaven. And we used to all Obon decorations  ｓhed into the river. People believed   over the sea, there is a heaven.

Talking of me, I ate watermelon which was used above decoration. I washed it with salt to cleanse before eating.

It was soooo delicious.