The flames of the grass burning create a fantastic fire festival at Cape Shionomisaki, the southernmost point of Honshu (Kyodo News)

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The flames of the grass burning create a fantastic fire festival at Cape Shionomisaki, the southernmost point of Honshu (Kyodo News)

On the 18th, a fire festival was held at Cape Shionomisaki in Kushimoto Town, Wakayama Prefecture, the southernmost point of Honshu, where the "Watchtower Turf," an area of about 100,000 square meters overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was burned down. Members of the archery club at the prefectural Kushimoto Koza High School in the town shot flaming arrows to ignite the fire, which gradually spread and created a fantastical landscape. Burning the o…