Highlights
Made by DianaHansenYoung
Width: 10 inches
Height: 8 inches
About this item
Sometimes she lights them in the cool dusk of a Hawaiian evening, just to enjoy the light shining through the silk shades. But tonight she lights them in honor of her great-great-grandmother. It iis Obon, the Festival of the Dead, and she wears her great-grandmother's kimono and hangs the Gifu lanterns she brought with her a century ago as a picture bride.
Some say Gifu Lanterns date to 16th century Japan. Others say they originated with a lantern-maker named Juzo in the city of Gifu.
She does not know where her great-grandmother got them, or why the kimono smells of tea and foreign lands, but she can feel her ghost in the garden as the lantern light dances over the leaves of the banyan tree.
This is an 8" x 8" giclee on canvas. I stapled it over stretcher bars. Put a ribbon around the edges to hid the staples and hang as is, or suitable for framing (no glass).
And if you are lucky enough to be in Hawaii at the time of the Obon Festival, enjoy the lanterns, and listen to advice of the ghosts of those who came before.
GIFU LANTERNS 8" x 10"Giclee on Canvas
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