Kanazawa "At Home at Ryokan Service"
Snow in Italy and Japanese Monk through a fire path
December 21st, 2009
Yesterday here in Italy in many areas it snowed a lot and the temperature dropped to -13 degrees Celsius at night and -4 on day. It was been a widespread snow and reached areas in the Po valley (“Pianura Padana”) where the last snowing of this intensity occurred only in 2001. The landscape has become very special and certainly unusual:
In Nagoya in Japan, instead , the temperature is not so rigid and our reporter sent us two photos taken from a wonderful very colorful ceremony where the monks walk barefoot on fire. The ritual is Shintoist, is called “Hiwatari-Shinji” and is held annually at the temple Akibasan Entsu-ji:
Event details can be found on this site: http://kikuko.web.infoseek.co.jp/english/hiwatari-shinji.html