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  2. Stone lantern - Wikipedia

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    Stone lanterns (灯籠/灯篭/灯楼, Chinese: dēnglóng; Japanese: tōrō, meaning 'light basket', 'light tower') [a] are a type of traditional East Asian lantern made of stone, wood, or metal. Originating in China, stone lanterns spread to Japan, Korea and Vietnam, though they are most commonly found in both China – extant in Buddhist ...

  3. Paper lantern - Wikipedia

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    Poems about paper lanterns start to appear in Chinese history at around the 6th century. [2] Paper lanterns were common by the Tang dynasty (AD 690–705), and it was during this period that the first annual lantern festival was established. [2] From China, it was spread to neighboring cultures in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

  4. Sky lantern - Wikipedia

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    An annual sky lantern festival known as the Kamihinokinai Paper Balloon Festival (上桧木内の紙風船上げ) is held in Semboku, Akita, on February 10 each year. Hundreds of very large lanterns, known as kamifūsen (紙風船), are flown for good luck in the coming year. [12] [13] Lanterns are made of washi, traditional Japanese glassine ...

  5. Traditional lighting equipment of Japan - Wikipedia

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    In present-day Japan, plastic chōchin with electric bulbs are produced as novelties, souvenirs, and for matsuri and events. [9] The earliest record of a chōchin dates to 1085, [8] and one appears in a 1536 illustration. The akachōchin, or red lantern, marks an izakaya. [10] In Japanese folklore, the chochin appears as a yōkai, the chōchin ...

  6. Alkekengi - Wikipedia

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    Alkekengi officinarum, the bladder cherry, [2] Chinese lantern, [3] Japanese-lantern, [4] strawberry groundcherry, [5] winter cherry, [3] alchechengi berry, or Klabuster cherry is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae.

  7. Qinhuai lantern - Wikipedia

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    Lanterns in Confucius Temple, Nanjing, 2010 Nanjing Lantern Art, Nanjing, 2019. Qinhuai lantern is the traditional art of Jurong City, Jiangsu Province, in China, and part of the national intangible cultural heritage of China. Qinhuai lantern, also known as "Jinling lantern" and "Nanjing lantern", is one of the representative folk arts in Nanjing.

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