For 10 days in the summer, the forests of Japan’s Yamagata prefecture are lit up by #himebotaru, a type of firefly endemic to the region.

Photographer #Kazuaki #Koseki has attempted to capture the phenomenon in his Summer Faeries series,
compiled over a period of eight years.
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