Chrysanthemum Festival

The Chrysanthemum Festival is a Rokugani holiday that takes place on the sixth day of the first month of Summer, celebrating the day that the Kami were believed to have fallen to the earth. Though the actual festival lasts only one day, for eight straight days, four before the festival and three after, all labor stops. Not even the peasants take up their tools, making this one of the most popular celebrations of the year.

Four days after the end of the Chrysanthemum Festival, the minions of the Shadowlands have historically created an enormous bonfire that could be seen from the Kaiu wall, and performed foul and bloody rituals in honor of their dark master, Fu Leng. Captives would be tossed into the fire as sacrifices to his power. (Rokugan Campaign Setting p. 122)