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Nihonmatsu Lantern Festival

festival held in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ3092868 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nihonmatsu Lantern Festival(二本松の提灯祭り Nihonmatsu-chochinmatsuri) is a Japanese traditional festival, located in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, Japan.

History

Nihonmatsu Lantern Festival is one of Japan's three Lantern festivals along with Akita Kanto, Akita and Owari Tshima Tenno, Aichi. Niwa Mitsushige instituted the festival in 1664.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1664—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nihonmatsu, Lantern and Festival is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Nihonmatsu Lantern Festival” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.