灯とう籠ろう流ながし

noun

floating lantern ceremony

A Buddhist ceremony held in summer, especially during Obon, where paper lanterns are set afloat on rivers to guide ancestral spirits back to the other world.

• お盆ぼんの夜よる、灯とう籠ろう流ながしが行おこなわれた。

  On the night of Obon, a floating lantern ceremony was held.

• 灯とう籠ろう流ながしで川かわ面もが幻げん想そう的てきに輝かがやいた。

  The river surface shone fantastically with the floating lanterns.