No crowd will gather for the traditional lighting of the 17-century stone lantern ... Festival will be online. But the flame is far from the most interesting part of this unusual symbol of ...

Two days prior to the official opening of the Nagasaki Lantern Festival ... of traditional dance and music. The festival was canceled in 2021 and the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The lantern festival at Manpukuji temple also commemorates the 350th anniversary of the death of its founder, Yin Yuan (1592-1673), as he is called in Chinese. Japanese know him as Ingen.