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The Japanese Lantern is a stone statue in West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. It is located next to the Tidal Basin, among the cherry trees first planted in 1912. It is lighted during the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival.
A pair of lanterns were created in 1651, to mark the death of Tokugawa Iemitsu. The lantern was formerly located at the Tōshō-gū temple, in Ueno Park, where its twin remains.
The lantern was given, by the governor of Tokyo, to the people of the United States, and was dedicated on March 30, 1954.
Usage examples of "japanese lantern".
Coming to the Japanese lantern parade and the Ground-Star Ball tonight?
Bett, unhooking the Japanese lantern, the November night still oddly balmy.
The airship glided over the rain forest like a huge, elongated Japanese lantern, pulsating with a soft blue-and-orange light as twin tongues of flame from the propane burners heated the air inside the big sausage-shaped envelope.
The southwest corner of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Outlet Bridge, the Kutz Bridge, most of the cherry trees on the east side of the Tidal Basin, the Japanese Lantern, the john Pauljones Memorial, and the Tidal Basin Paddle were completely destroyed.
In Boston, celebrants carried an enormous transparent obelisk of oiled paper illuminated from within (like a Japanese lantern) by three hundred lamps and covered with symbolic pictures and patriotic verse.
I was sitting on my chair, beside my pool, with my whole family, watching house lights and poolside Japanese lantern lights dance on the water .