In July, on the following Sunday or national holiday after the Day of the Ox, the Motomiya Festival is held at Fushimi Inari Shrine (伏見稲荷大社, Fushimi Inari-taisha). On the day of the festival, people from all over Japan from the sub-shrines of Inari Okami come to the head shrine of Fushimi Inari to express gratitude for the divine blessing of Inari. Also, on the day before the Motomiya Festival, there is a festival called Yoimiya, in which the stone and paper lanterns of the shrine are lit at night. On both festivals, the thousands of lanterns at the shrine are lit up at night, and the shrine is engulfed in mysterious red light. There are not many night illumination events at Fushimi Inari; in fact, these the two days of this festival are the only two days the shrine is illuminated at night!