お盆 Obon This ‘Obon’, as well as being a religious event to commemorate the souls of ancestors, has the air of a national holiday, with many people traveling around the country and, for those not aware of Buddhist practices, the Obon around August 15th is just a summer vacation, though most people throughout the country maintain the tradition of visting family graves. ↑this is web site. I was grew up at the seaside. The tray was told that a dead person returned from the waterside. "Okuribi" is one of the events observed in Bon festivals to usher out from this mortal world to the other world those spirits of the dead that had once returned to their old homes during the Bon period. I heard my parens that you must not swim in the sea in the Bon Festival. My mom passed away 10 years ago. I dreamt of about my mother Bon Festival. Probably I think that she came to meet me.