Making an Edo Period Paper Lantern in Tokyo with Master Chochin Lantern Craftsman, Shunji Onda

Posted by Marian Goldberg on February 7, 2015 at 9:59pm

It was a rainy autumn day in Tokyo, as my companions and I shuffled out of the Toei Chikatetsu metro line at Asakusa Station. Emerging onto the street level, we quickly opened and raised our large, red, paper umbrellas, on loan from our escorts, and made our way down a few alleys to the Ohshimaya Onda Chochin Lantern Shop.

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Asakusa, Chochin, Edo, Japan, Japanese, Lantern, Paper, Tokyo, crafts, cultural, traditional

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