The Na Lei Aloha Foundation Lantern Floating 2010 took place this past Monday on Memorial Day at Magic Island Park. Today's photo was the scene as lanterns were released into the water, and was taken from my TV camera platform. Over 40,000 people attended the event, with a few thousand lanterns released.
Lanterns that honor the dead are floated to sea, it's a Japanese Buddhist ritual called tooroo nagashi. For this event, people wrote the name of a loved one, and sometimes a short message on the paper walls around the candle.
This year, local TV camera operators were used, though our director was from Japan. We managed to work through the language barrier, and had a blast, as the director really got into the broadcast.
1 comment:
I'll bet that was quite a site. Sounds like a great tradition.
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