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[Yanai City, Yamaguchi Prefecture] A major summer event: Yanai Goldfish Lantern Festival

2023.07.20

A big summer event will be held with the motif of “goldfish lanterns”, a folk craft of Yanai.
About 4,000 goldfish lanterns are decorated in the venue, of which about 2,500 are lit.
The highlight is the “Goldfish Nebuta”, which parades through the festival grounds majestically and sometimes wildly.

Yanai's folk craft "Goldfish Lantern"

Yanai City has prospered as a key point for land and water transportation since ancient times, and has prospered as one of the leading commercial cities in the Seto Inland Sea.
It is said that Yanai’s folk art, “goldfish lanterns,” began when merchants in Yanai made goldfish for children, using dyes from traditional Yanaijima textiles.

Date: Main festival: August 13, 2023 (Sun) 16:30-21:00
Goldfish lantern decoration: July 22nd (Sat) to August 31st (Thu), 2023
Location: From JR Yanai Station to the white-walled townscape (Central Yanai City to Yanaizu)

>Yanai City Official Website

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