Japanese people celebrate the Bon Festival, in which they honor their dead. Families hang lanterns outside their houses and beside the graves and offer their ancestors a variety of food to welcome their souls home. La Fete des Ames. vers le soir les Japonnais vont les recevoir hors de la Ville et leurs presentent a manger. Copperplate engraving by David Herrliberguer after an illustration by Bernard Picard from Les Ceremonies Religieuses de Tous les Peuples du Monde, Religious Ceremonies of All the Peoples of the World, Chez David Herrliberguer, Zurich, 1750.

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