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Shadow Festival


Kanji 陰祭(かげまつり)
Location Kureha Shrine*
Participants Unknown
Frequency Unknown
Purpose Mirrors the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual
Game Deep Crimson Butterfly

The Shadow Festival is an event shown in Fatal Frame: Deep Crimson Butterfly. It is a summer festival in which crowds gather to watch as hundreds of paper lanterns are released into the night sky.

History

The Shadow Festival derives from the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual of Minakami Village, although with much of the associated lore stripped away. Certain religious traditions from Minakami Village were dispersed through the region nearby, and the Shadow Festival is an example of this. The release of the lanterns recalls the swarm of crimson butterflies that emerge from the Abyss following a successful ritual, and the festival takes place at a shrine which takes its name from Minakami's Kureha Shrine.[1]

Deep Crimson Butterfly

Mio and Mayu Amakura attended the Shadow Festival several times when they were growing up.[2] On one occasion, before Mayu's accident, she and Mio became separated in the crowd, and this coalesced Mayu's fear that they would eventually grow apart.[3] However, in the Shadow Festival Ending, the twins return to this festival as a vision of a time when there was nothing separating them, and they shared the same thoughts.[4]

Itsuki, Mutsuki and Chitose Tachibana can also be seen as Vanishing ghosts in Chapter VII, watching a projector reel of the Shadow Festival. This footage was recorded by Seijiro Makabe at the Kureha Shrine in another village.[5]

Misc. Info

  • Kagematsuri is a real-world term, which refers to a more modest festival held on years when the main, non-annual festival does not take place.[6]
  • Originally, the Shadow Festival took place at the same time as the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual. However, after the disappearance of Minakami Village, it seems to have become more frequent, since Mio and Mayu were able to attend more than once.
  • The ritual to create the Kusabi is also referred to as the Shadow Ritual in Deep Crimson Butterfly.

References

  1. "Endings Explained: 'Shadow Festival' Ending", Deep Crimson Butterfly Guidebook p109 (English translation)
  2. Projector Room cutscene, Chapter VIII, Fatal Frame: Deep Crimson Butterfly
  3. "The Director Talks About Each Chapter's Highlights", Deep Crimson Butterfly Guidebook, p46-47 (English translation)
  4. "Endings Explained: 'Shadow Festival' Ending", Deep Crimson Butterfly Guidebook p109 (English translation)
  5. "The Director Talks About Each Chapter's Highlights", Deep Crimson Butterfly Guidebook, p46 (English translation)
  6. 陰祭とは - コトバンク
Characters
Player Characters
Mio Amakura - Mayu Amakura
Major Characters/Ghosts
Sae Kurosawa - Yae Kurosawa - The Kusabi - Seijiro Makabe - Itsuki Tachibana - Dr. Kunihiko Asou - Chitose Tachibana - Miyako Sudo - Masumi Makimura - Akane Kiryu - Twin Doll - Ryokan Kurosawa
Minor Characters/Ghosts
Ryozo Munakata - Kureha - Yoshitatsu Kiryu - Azami Kiryu - Mutsuki Tachibana - Veiled Priests - Mourners - Woman in Box - Fallen Woman - Limbo Man - Limbo Woman - Sunken Woman - Broken Neck Woman - Minakami Villagers - Children Playing Tag - Man In Dark - Woman in Dark - Escaping Twins - Hanging Twins
Terms
Altar Twins - Camera Obscura - Crimson Sacrifice Ritual - Crimson Sacrifice - Crimson Butterfly - Cutting Ritual - Folklorist - Hidden Ceremony - Kiryu Family - Kurosawa Family - Osaka Family - Outsiders - Remaining - Shadow Festival - Spirit Stone Radio - Spirited Aways - Tachibana Family - The Darkness - The Repentance - Tsuchihara Family - Twin Shrine Maidens - Sacrificial Song
Locations
Abyss - Cell - Decayed Tree - Deep Path - Earth Bridge - Heaven Bridge - Kiryu House - Kureha Shrine - Kurosawa House - Minakami Cemetery - Minakami Village - Misono Hill - Mizukami Dam - Osaka House - Rope Temple - Storehouse - Tachibana House - Twin Houses - Twins' Room - Whisper Bridge
Gameplay
Camera Obscura - Dark Return - Haunted House Mode - Health items - Films - Flashlight - Functions - Lenses - Night Shop - Save points - Spirit List - Spirit Stones
Music
Tsukiko Amano - Kurenai - Sacrificial Song
More Pages
Chapters - Items - Notes - Photographs - Costumes - Endings - Mio's Memo