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🔥'大'🔥

Daimonji (大文字) is first of the Gozan-no-Okuribi (五山送り火) to be lit, at 8pm on August 16th. It is by far the most famous -& oldest- of the current 5 Okuribi.
Daimonji sits on the upper slopes of Mt. Nyoigadake (如意ヶ嶽/大文字山).

Daimonji's horizontal stroke is 80m long, the left sweep 160m and the right 120m.
The character '大' means large or great, though it is unclear what it symbolises

A little before 8pm the first fire (of 75 in total) is lit at the Kanao (金尾), Daimonji's heart.