Yamaga Lantern Museum (山鹿灯籠民芸館) 山鹿灯籠民芸館
Nine artisans work in full view of visitors: it takes ten years to go from apprentice to master.
The museum occupies a former bank from 1925, built for the Yamaga branch of the Yasuda Bank: two storeys of reinforced concrete in Western style, in use as a bank until 1973, then bought by the municipality and opened as a museum in 1987. Since 2002 the building has been 登録有形文化財, that is, entered in the national register of cultural properties. About a hundred gilded lanterns are on display; new ones are made every year and shown at the Yamaga Lantern Festival, on 15 and 16 August.
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