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It was the final night of Obon, the festival of souls. For three days, the spirits of ancestors had been visiting the world of the living, and now it was time for Toro Nagashi —the ceremony of floating lanterns to guide them back home.

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He watched as his light joined hundreds of others, a shimmering ribbon of gold winding through the heart of Tokyo. Each flame represented a memory, a goodbye, or a prayer. As the fleet of lanterns drifted toward the sea, the city’s neon skyscrapers seemed to fade into the background, leaving only the ancient, glowing path between this world and the next. It was the final night of Obon, the festival of souls

The riverbank was a sea of soft, amber glows. Families murmured in low tones, the flickering light reflecting in the dark, moving water of the Sumida River. A young girl nearby giggled softly as her father helped her strike a match, her eyes wide with the magic of the moment. Then, the current caught it

Kenji took a brush and carefully inked his grandfather’s name on the translucent side of the lantern. Beside the name, he wrote a simple "Thank you" for the years of woodworking lessons and the quiet patience the old man had always shown.