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Obon celebrations ends with Toro Nagashi - the floating of lanterns. Paper lanterns are illuminated with candles and then floated down rivers or onto the ocean symbolically signaling the ancestral spirits' return to the world of the dead.

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Obon celebrations ends with Toro Nagashi - the floating of lanterns. Paper lanterns are illuminated with candles and then floated down rivers or onto the ocean symbolically signaling the ancestral spirits' return to the world of the dead.

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