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Sean bienvenidos japonistasarqueologícos a una nueva entrega para finalizar el Obon se realizan los llamados Gozan no Okuribi, tambien conocido como Daimonji se realizan el día 16 de agosto. - Espero que os guste y nos vemos en próximas publicaciones, que pasen una buena semana. - Welcome Japanese archaeologists to a new installment to end the Obon, the so-called Gozan no Okuribi, also known as Daimonji, are held on August 16. - I hope you like it and see you in future publications, have a good week. - 日本の考古学者の皆さん、お盆の締めくくりとなる新たな行事、いわゆる五山の送り火（大文字としても知られています）が 8 月 16 日に開催されます。 - 気に入っていただければ幸いです。今後の出版物でお会いできることを願っています。良い一週間をお過ごしください。 -
Sean bienvenidos, japonistasarqueológicos a una nueva entrega, en esta ocasión hablaré sobre Obon el festival de los difuntos una vez dicho esto pónganse cómodos que empezamos. - En Japón, en los días de agosto, del 13 al 16, se celebra el Obon, que lo podemos ver en multitud de animes, películas y doramas ya hice mención sobre que estas cosas no solo hay que verlas, como meros dibujos, ya que tienen mucho sentido cultural e histórico. Esta festividad tiene muchos elementos muy característicos como el Gozan no Okuribi también llamado Daimonji, muy característico de finales de estas fiestas, porque suelen ser una serie de dibujos alguno de un torii y otros como el kanji de fuego, por mencionar algunos ejemplos. - Los pepinos(se utiliza para cuando el difunto llega) y berenjenas(caso contrario cuando el difunto se va ) simbolizan la llegada y el regreso del difunto al más allá. Hay muchos países que celebran esta festividad de formas distintas, pero todos tienen en común que honran a sus antepasados, es una festividad que tiene 400 a 500 años de antigüedad y es de origen budista. Para finalizar la publicación mencionaremos el Awa-Odori, (Odori significa bailar) y data del siglo XVI. - Espero que os guste y nos vemos en próximas publicaciones, que pasen una buena semana.
日本の考古学者の皆さん、新しい回へようこそ。今回はお盆についてお話ししましょう。 - 日本では、8月の13日から16日にかけて、お盆の行事が行われる。 アニメや映画、ドラマなどでもよく見かけるが、これらは単なる絵空事ではなく、多くの文化的、歴史的な意味を持っていることはすでに述べた。例えば、五山の送り火は「大文字」とも呼ばれ、鳥居の絵や「火」という漢字の絵など、お盆の風物詩となっている。 - キュウリ（故人が来るときに使う）とナス（故人が帰るときに使う）は、故人があの世に到着し、戻ってくることを象徴している。この祭りをさまざまな方法で祝う国はたくさんあるが、先祖を敬うという点では共通している。阿波踊りは16世紀に遡る。 - それでは、良い一週間を。
Welcome, Japanese archaeologists to a new installment, this time I will talk about Obon, the festival of the dead, and with that said, make yourselves comfortable and let's get started. - In Japan, in the days of August, from the 13th to the 16th, Obon is celebrated, which we can see in many anime, movies and doramas. I have already mentioned that these things should not only be seen as mere drawings, as they have a lot of cultural and historical meaning. This festivity has many very characteristic elements such as the Gozan no Okuribi also called Daimonji, very characteristic of the end of these festivities, because they are usually a series of drawings of a torii and others such as the kanji of fire, to mention some examples. - Cucumbers (used for when the deceased arrives) and aubergines (otherwise when the deceased leaves) symbolise the arrival and return of the deceased to the afterlife. There are many countries that celebrate this festival in different ways, but they all have in common that they honour their ancestors, it is a festival that is 400 to 500 years old and is of Buddhist origin. To end the publication we will mention the Awa-Odori, (Odori means dancing) and dates back to the 16th century. - I hope you like it and see you in future publications, have a nice week.
Hour 7: Liminal Spaces and the Crossing Thereof
Summary: The Senju Ghost had started haunting the Uchiha settlement, and they were eager to put a stop to it. So eager in fact, that they were willing to offer up Madara as a ghostbride.
Author: @titaniafaeriequeen Rating: Mature Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Madara/Senju Tobirama Other Tags: fluff, ghost marriage, sort of, misunderstandings, demisexual Madara, Uchiha Izuna lives Word Count: 7,802 (complete)
Testing his newest invention, Tobirama had eventually moved further away from the Senju settlement, pushing to find the limits of its range. It was during this that an unprecedented opportunity had presented itself—Uchiha Madara was rapidly moving towards his location. Who better to pit himself against to test both the endurance, and whether or not the Sharingan could spot it? Tobirama could not really think of anyone else, except perhaps Uchiha Izuna, although the younger Uchiha was, at least by Tobirama’s estimate, a fraction or two below Madara in skill.
Tobirama waited until Madara burst into the clearing, then he set off in a panicked rush. Minus the actual panic. And with the addition of an injury to his leg that he didn’t actually have. Feigning being hurt and exhausted, he made sure to not move any faster than that Madara quickly gained on him. Then, as if he had come to the realization that he would not manage to outpace the Uchiha, he stopped on a branch, leaning heavily on one leg, brandishing a kunai in one hand, and moving the other through a long series of hand seals. Madara crashed into him before he could finish the jutsu.
Read the rest on AO3.
Hour 1: Fire and Smoke
Summary:
Smoke rising from the Uchiha compound is always a concern. Aburame Shige should go check, just in case.
(And make several worrying realizations in rapid succession.) (Maybe he can help them, too.)
Author: Dawen
Rating: General
Fandom: Naruto
Relationship: none. ...Aburame Shige (OC) & Uchiha Clan?
Other Tags: Humor, Fix-It, Obon, Traditions, (Assumed) Funeral Practices, Epidemic, No Death, Early Konoha, Enemies to Allies to Friends, (the clan version of strangers to friends), Making Peace, Building Community, Pyromaniac Uchiha Clan, Prankster Uchiha Clan, Bald Uchiha Madara, (it's temporary)
Word Count: 2,692
Warnings: This fic does have a background of a deadly epidemic, and some inspiration was taken from Covid. Nothing very detailed; mostly things like social distancing and overfull hospitals. There's no detail about the illness itself. Everyone is weathering the epidemic better than they would have before Konoha. Finally, there is a brief, oblique mention of lung cancer - I used the term sapping cough for it.
A plume of smoke drifts up towards the sun. Shige, on his way home from the new Mission Archives, eyes it speculatively. It's rather early for Obon fires, in his opinion, but the Aburame as a whole are generally not fond of fire and he knows his clan is more... conservative in festival fire than most clans.
That smoke seems to be coming from the Uchiha compound. Curious, Shige adjusts course to investigate.
He finds a single fire burning near the compound entrance, and a lone Uchiha – a kunoichi, though retired, he thinks, when Konoha's building prosperity allowed her to – keeping watch of it. Perhaps not an Obon fire after all, then?
Shige meanders up the path to the Uchiha compound entrance, his innate shinobi curiosity overcoming his better sense in leaving the Uchiha clan well enough alone. The bonfire is just inside the compound entrance. Not many people are around, just a gate guard who keeps their distance from the blaze, though they let Shige in with a curious glance and a polite nod, and the kunoichi who's focused intently on the bonfire.
There appears to be people in that bonfire.
Read the rest on AO3.
Hour 3: Seeing You (In My Dreams)
Summary:
Madara has always wanted to see his brother again.
He never expected it to happen like this.
Author: @phlebaswrites Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara, Uchiha Hikaku/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 1,029 (Complete) Warning: Canonical Character Death
Madara grips the shinai in his hand tightly, too tightly in fact, but he can't seem to let go.
He used to spar with Izuna like this, but that was when they were children, true children, long before they began to handle live steel.
Before Hashirama, and the dreams that came with him.
But his hands are the ones Madara sees every day, bearing the callouses of gunbai and kusarigama, and the hair which cuts across his face is long. Most of all though, he looks at Izuna through the red wash of the Sharingan… and his brother is blind.
Because his eyes are in Madara's face.
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Hour 6: Monsoon
Summary: With an unseasonably late monsoon sweeping through the compound, the Uchiha are too busy to light the bonfire at the end of Obon that would light their ancestors' path back to the Pure Lands. One unfortunate accident later, and the bonfire is late for sure.
But Izuna has some concerns about the ghosts of his ancestors getting lost - or, worse, staying here with him. While he's alive.
Author: Dawen Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Family Other Tags: Warring Clans Era (Naruto), Canon Compliant, Uchiha Clan-Centric, Obon, Ghosts, Natural Disasters, Rescue Mission, Angst with a Happy Ending, Kid Izuna, in which two clan civilians are Rescued from a Flood, paying proper homage to your ancestors, calamities which seem so much more severe when you're like ten Word Count: 1,853
Izuna took a moment to wring his hair out, water flowing in a steady stream to puddle on the engawa before dripping through the cracks between the boards. The urgent tasks were done – elders and young children taken up to the healing ward, which was built on high ground specifically so that the injured wouldn’t need to be rescued during monsoons. Their food stores were secured. Most of their livestock had been taken from the pastures; the chickens had fled to their coops, which teams of shinobi had raised to be a bit higher when the rain started. Izuna’s job, checking on the civilians under evacuation and offering help to anyone who could benefit from a touch of chakra to get through a waterfall’s worth of rain, was nearly done. He’d just finished checking this house; the family had already evacuated.
One last family to check on. With a sigh, he braced himself and ran into the rain again, suppressing a flinch at the heavy drum of incessant water on his armor.
Read the rest on AO3.
And remember: To be continued, under next year’s Lamplight…
Hour 7: Liminal Spaces and the Crossing Thereof
Summary: The Senju Ghost had started haunting the Uchiha settlement, and they were eager to put a stop to it. So eager in fact, that they were willing to offer up Madara as a ghostbride.
Author: @titaniafaeriequeen Rating: Mature Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Madara/Senju Tobirama Other Tags: fluff, ghost marriage, sort of, misunderstandings, demisexual Madara, Uchiha Izuna lives Word Count: 7,802 (complete)
Testing his newest invention, Tobirama had eventually moved further away from the Senju settlement, pushing to find the limits of its range. It was during this that an unprecedented opportunity had presented itself—Uchiha Madara was rapidly moving towards his location. Who better to pit himself against to test both the endurance, and whether or not the Sharingan could spot it? Tobirama could not really think of anyone else, except perhaps Uchiha Izuna, although the younger Uchiha was, at least by Tobirama’s estimate, a fraction or two below Madara in skill.
Tobirama waited until Madara burst into the clearing, then he set off in a panicked rush. Minus the actual panic. And with the addition of an injury to his leg that he didn’t actually have. Feigning being hurt and exhausted, he made sure to not move any faster than that Madara quickly gained on him. Then, as if he had come to the realization that he would not manage to outpace the Uchiha, he stopped on a branch, leaning heavily on one leg, brandishing a kunai in one hand, and moving the other through a long series of hand seals. Madara crashed into him before he could finish the jutsu.
Read the rest on AO3.
Hour #8: the Botan Dōrō
Summary:
Izuna visited Tobirama at night, with a red botanical lantern in his hand.
Author: greenchair (@greencuttingmat) Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Izuna Other Tags: Major Character Death, non-con, Ghost Bride, ghost wedding, ghost, Izuna was already dead, forced marriage, hence the non-con, ghost, Japanese mythology Word Count: 1,958
The cicadas cried through the night. They screamed for love and the end of their life. Inside the house, Tobirama was calmly writing letters to the Daimyo. The summer this year was particularly harsh, and he foresaw a freezing winter, so he would like to <s>beg</s> haggle for a better deal. He would prefer to finish the letter quickly and then get some sleep before tomorrow's battle with the Uchiha. He would need all of his focus to fight Izuna.
Suddenly, from the periphery of his sight, he saw a light shining behind the shoji door to the garden.
"Excuse me," said a man with a voice so familiar and yet so impossible to be here. They had never met in their on the grounds of either clan. It would have been too treacherous, too bold.
<i>What were the guards doing?</i>
Tobirama pulled out a kunai, but he didn't open the door. He didn't feel any killing intent, or anything at all from the other person. <i> Was it a genjutsu?</i>
"If you won't open the door, I will come in myself." The other person announced.
Tobirama created a bunshin to stand in his place while he hid in the ceiling.
The door slid open and the person outside walked in. His steps were silent as if he was tiptoeing. His heels were covered by his long mantle. The mantle was not buttoned, just closed from the wrong side. And his face was shadowed by the light of the large lantern, as red as the spring peony.
It was Izuna.
"Tsk tsk tsk. Don't hide, Tobirama. What are you afraid of?" He said, walking right onto the kunai. Tobirama's clone would have moved away, but it was frozen in place.
Red blood bled like a wave and soaked his mantle. It was where Tobirama had last stabbed him.
Izuna smiled and looked right into the eyes of the real Tobirama.
And then Tobirama felt warm like he was sunbathing. He blinked. In front of his eyes were his brushes. He had fallen asleep on his desk and the evening sun casted shadows into the room.
There was no Izuna.
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Hour 9: Short Cut
Summary: The Senju Clan is used to Tobirama leaving Obon festivities a little early. Not so much what he gets up to in his lab, these days.
Author: Dawen
Rating: General
Fandom: Naruto
Relationship: Ambiguous Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Izuna
Other Tags: Obon, Edo Tensei, Implied Human Sacrifice, (it IS Edo Tensei), Dead Uchiha Izuna, Ambiguous Relationship (OTP? BroTP? your choice), Canonical Death, Noncanonical Resurrection
Word Count: 200 (double drabble)
Read on AO3 or under the cut.
For once, Tobirama’s antisocial tendencies work in his favor. No one bothers him when he leaves early, setting lanterns out for his little brothers and slipping some senbon to Tadako-chan for her vegetable horses. He doesn’t stay long on Obon; after years he had finally accepted that his grief is a private thing, not easily shown to other people.
It isn’t grief driving him away from his clan’s festivities this year, though it makes a good excuse.
He retrieves a prisoner from the little jail he built underneath his lab - a bloodline thief whose unit he busted last week. It seems appropriate. It’s easy to ready his other materials: chakra ink and seal paper, a seal already sketched on a large scroll. Easier still to make the sacrifice.
Tobirama can feel a presence, lingering in his lab. Heavier than his last attempt.
A body coalesces. His chakra is not depleted, not as much as previous attempts.
Pale eyelids blink open; the eyes beneath look pure black, iris and sclera blending together. A smile stretches across a bone-white, cracked face. “I told you it would work better today.”
Tobirama rolls his eyes, but cannot repress a fond smile. “Hello again, Izuna.”
Hour #10: A Lonesome Death
Summary:
Hikaku argued that since there was no body nor funeral, Madara couldn’t be declared dead, and thus they shouldn’t split up his possessions, but no one cared about his opinion.
Author: greenchair (@greencuttingmat) Rating: Teen And Up
Fandom: Naruto
Relationship: Madara/Hashirama, Madara/Hikaku, Tobirama/Izuna, Hikaku/OFC
Characters: Hashirama, Hikaku, Tobirama, OFC
Other Tags: Major Character Death, grief, angst, will execution, alcohol drinking, all romantic relationships are implied, except Hikaku/wife, no beta we died like Izuna
Word Count: 1,621
Notes:
I wrote this in a hurry and didn't do research on Japanese custom on wills and their executions.
The wind bit while the sky shed tears when Hilaku couldn’t. News about the new crater outside of Konoha travelled fast. No one saw the return of Hokage, but everyone had heard about the death of Uchiha Madara.
Hikaku immediately called for a team to retrieve his clan head’s body, with force if necessary, but there was no body to be bought home, and under the opposition of the elders led by the newly ascended clan head (after acting as the regent for years), there would be no funeral as well.
Hikaku kneeled in front of his family Kamidana, the gold glittered behind the dark wood, which was smoked black with time. The incense from the morning had finished burning. He put his palm together, eyes closing, and asked for forgiveness for the disturbance.
Pulling his sleeve up, Hikaku fingered behind the cabinet. The dust stuck on his fingers. Without further hassle, he found what he was looking for. An envelope, yellowed with time, wrinkled in his hand.
It was Madara’s will.
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Hour 11: A Fish in the Hand (Is Worth Two in the Face)
Summary:
Tobirama has always been his rival.
And Izuna is determined not to lose.
Author: @phlebaswrites Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Senju Tobirama & Uchiha Izuna Word Count: 246 (Complete)
Izuna rolls up the sleeves of his mantle even as Tobirama does the same.
They aren't using the usual wooden buckets this year, not when there were other - more challenging - options instead.
Made with the mokuton, the fish dart madly inside a wooden oke that's even bigger than an ofuro. Indeed, it's the size of a small pond and they swim freely, already seeming to seek an escape.'Allowing his Sharingan to surface slows time however, and their movements become much more predictable.
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Hour 12: Lantern Lights
Author: Void Scribbles @thevoidscribe Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Sasuke & Family Other Tags: ghosts, death, mourning, grief, parting ways
Retratos del festival de Obon, el festival de los muertos de Japón
