Fire!

[telophase]

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

More about the fire festival n Miyajima Island later, because we’ve gotta run for breakfast shortly, but here’s a photo of young men carrying a flaming torch, as the descriptions of the festival promised.

They look kind of tired because they’d been carrying that torch, unlit, throughout town for hours previous to this, and the adrenaline from lighting it and running around was wearing off by this point.