Eggplant and cucumbers for Obon
In Japan, there is a custom of offering a horse made from a cucumber and a cow made from an eggplant during Obon.
It is said that ancestors return during Obon, and the reason why horses are used for the journey and cows for the return journey is because it is a wish to the spirits of ancestors to “come quickly” and “take their time on the way back.”
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