秋のお彼岸（aki no o higan ）： The Autumn Equinoctial Week

Today is the beginning of the autumn equinoctial week. A week between the Equinox Day is called higan (彼岸). There are two Equinox Days in a year. In spring it is called haru no o higan (春のお彼岸), and in autumn it is called aki no o higan (秋のお彼岸).
We usually visit the graveyard of ancestors. Today I visited my mother's grave yard. It was fine and there are many people there visiting their ancestor's graves. We usually offer the sweets called ohagi (おはぎ) to the household Buddhist altar called butsudan (仏壇).
Japanese people are usually both Buddhist and Shintoist, therefore in Japanese household there are both Buddhist altar and Shinto altar called kamidana (神棚).