Kagami Matsuri

The Festival of the Mirror was held in the Shrine of Heaven's Mirror, on the 9th day of the Month of the Tiger. It was a remembrance of the day when a peasant woman named Rei found a piece of polished metal, named the Heaven's Mirror, which granted visions of the Spirit Realms and the creatures therein. The mirror was brought out and any participant might claim the right to look in the mirror. Participants threw off their usual decorum in the hope of glimpsing something beyond their daily existence.