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Lighting lanterns

NARA, Japan - Women light a lantern as part of a Chugen Mantoro rite at Kasuga Taisha shrine in Nara, western Japan, on Aug. 14, 2010.

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Lighting lanterns

NARA, Japan - Women light a lantern as part of a Chugen Mantoro rite at Kasuga Taisha shrine in Nara, western Japan, on Aug. 14, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Kasuga Taisha Shrine

There are more than 1000 turning lanterns in the red-painted main building and the corridor, and they are all lighted at once for the Setsubun festival on February every year and the Mantoro in Chugen on August 15.==Date:unknown, Place:Nara, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number42‐34‐0]

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The precincts of Kasuga Shrine

Within the compounds of Kasuga Taisha, approximately 1700 stone lanterns stand. These are lit with the hanging lantern of the shrine during Mantoro .==Date:1879, Place:Nara, Photo:[R. Stillfried], (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number27‐36‐0]