{"title":"Japanese Lanterns","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore Japanese-inspired lanterns through rounded hanging forms, blossom motifs and small roofed garden styles. Choose the shape and scale that work with the surface or space you want to define.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"red-blossom-round-paper-lantern-umeakari","title":"Red Blossom Round Paper Lantern 'Umeakari'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eCream paper lantern painted with red plum blossom on black branches, round and ribbed\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eRed plum on cream paper, round. This lantern is a cream paper globe on a wire spiral, printed with plum blossom in a strong red on black ink branches that wrap most of the way round, thicker and bolder than the plum on the three-design lantern in the collection, with the flowers drawn as clusters of red dots on branches that fork and cross. The paper is warmer and the red is stronger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the lantern in the collection with the most colour on it, and lit from inside it glows red at the branches and gold everywhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Umeakari, is the plum light, the lamp with the plum on it, and the lantern is that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lantern is a ribbed paper shade on a wire spiral that collapses flat and springs open, with a wire hanger at the top and an opening for a cord. It is a shade, not a lamp: hang it over a pendant cord with a low-heat bulb, or drop a battery LED inside, and the paper does the rest. No bulb or fitting is included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHang it from a ceiling hook over a cord, alone in a corner or a hallway, or in a pair over a table, and light it low: the red is strongest when the bulb is dim. Unlit it is a cream globe with a red-and-black painting; lit it is a warm sphere with the branches in shadow and the blossom glowing. It goes with the red things in the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe branches are the detail: drawn thick and black in the brushed manner, they fork and cross the ribs, and the blossom is clustered along them in red dots with a few buds, so the painting reads from across a room. The cream of the paper is what makes the red warm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a room it is a cream globe with red and black on it. From close the black is branches, the red is blossom, and the ribs show their pleats through both. It is the lantern for a living room and a person who wants the plum in February.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep it dry and away from a hot bulb; paper marks with water and browns with heat. It collapses flat for storing. Dust it with a soft brush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne size, a globe about the width of a large dinner plate. It arrives flat and opens in a minute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YONAKU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59207917568348,"sku":"YNK-RED-BLOS-ROUN-OS","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/red-blossom-round-paper-lantern-umeakari-1.jpg?v=1790585930"},{"product_id":"daruma-chochin-paper-lantern-fukuakari","title":"Daruma Chochin Paper Lantern 'Fukuakari'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBarrel paper lantern printed with a daruma face and brushed characters, in two sizes\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA daruma on a barrel lantern, with a wish written under him. This chochin is the lantern of the Japanese shop front and the festival stall, a barrel of white ribbed paper with a black rim at the top and the bottom, printed with a red daruma face, round and frowning with the character for fortune on his belly, and beneath him a column of brushed characters that wish the reader luck with money. It comes in two sizes, both the same height.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the lantern that hangs outside an izakaya, and inside a house it is the one that makes a corner look like one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Fukuakari, is the fortune light, the lamp with luck on it, and the daruma and the characters are the luck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lantern is a ribbed paper barrel on a wire spiral, with a stiff black rim at the top and the bottom that hold its shape and carry the hanger and the base, and it collapses flat between the rims. It is a shade, not a lamp: hang it over a pendant cord with a low-heat bulb, or drop a battery LED inside. No bulb or fitting is included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHang it from a hook by a door, in a kitchen, over a bar or in a hallway, where a shop lantern belongs, and light it warm. Unlit it is a white barrel with a red face; lit it is a warm column with the daruma glowing. It goes with the daruma pieces elsewhere in the shop and with a red noren.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe characters are the detail: a column of four in a bold brush hand, a phrase that wishes for money luck in the manner of a shop sign, with two small red blossoms beside them, and the daruma above with his one-eyed stare and the character for fortune on his front. The black rims are what make it a chochin rather than a globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a room it is a white barrel with a red face on it. From close the face shows its brows, the characters their strokes, and the rims their black. It is the lantern for a kitchen or a bar and a person who wants the shop front at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep it dry and away from a hot bulb; paper marks with water and browns with heat. It collapses flat for storing. Dust it with a soft brush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo sizes: 15 by 25 cm, the width of a hand, and 20 by 25 cm, a little wider, both the same height. Both arrive flat and open in a minute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YONAKU","offers":[{"title":"15 x 25 cm","offer_id":59207920451932,"sku":"YNK-DARU-CHOC-PAPE-15-X-25-CM","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20 x 25 cm","offer_id":59207920484700,"sku":"YNK-DARU-CHOC-PAPE-20-X-25-CM","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/daruma-chochin-paper-lantern-fukuakari-1.jpg?v=1790585933"},{"product_id":"japanese-paper-lantern-bonbori","title":"Japanese Paper Lantern 'Bonbori'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRound paper lantern painted with plum blossom, lotus or a pine, in three designs\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA paper globe with a painting on it. This round lantern is a white paper shade on a wire spiral, printed in the manner of an ink painting with one of three designs: red plum blossom on black branches, a pink lotus rising from green leaves, or a pine tree in green and brown leaning across the globe. The paper is ribbed by the wire and the painting wraps a third of the way round, with the rest left white.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the lantern of the summer festival and the tea room, and lit from inside it turns the painting into a shadow play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Bonbori, is the small round lantern of the doll festival, the one with the paper shade, and this is that shape at a hanging size.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lantern is a ribbed paper shade on a wire spiral that collapses flat and springs open, with a wire hanger at the top and an opening for a cord. It is a shade, not a lamp: hang it over a pendant cord with a low-heat bulb, or drop a battery LED inside, and the paper does the rest. No bulb or fitting is included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHang it from a ceiling hook over a cord in a bedroom, a hallway or a corner of a living room, or several at different heights over a table for a summer evening. Unlit it is a white globe with a painting; lit it is a soft warm sphere with the branches or the lotus in silhouette.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three designs are three seasons: the plum is late winter, the lotus is high summer, the pine is all year. The painting is printed, not painted, and it is crisp on the ribs; the white of the paper is warm, closer to cream than to snow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ribs are the detail: the wire spiral pleats the paper in fine horizontal ribs from top to bottom, and the painting crosses them, so the branches step down the globe like a staircase. Lit, the ribs show as fine dark lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a room it is a white globe with a mark of colour. From close the mark is a painting, the ribs show their pleats, and the paper its grain. It is the lantern for a bedroom and a person who wants a soft light with a picture in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep it dry and away from a hot bulb; paper marks with water and browns with heat. It collapses flat for storing. Dust it with a soft brush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne size, a globe about the width of a large dinner plate. 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These garden lanterns are shaped as the stone lantern of a Japanese temple path, with a pitched roof, four latticed windows in the old shoji pattern and a warm LED inside, on a black stake that pushes into a lawn or a bed. A solar panel on the roof charges a battery by day and the lantern comes on at dusk and goes off at dawn. They come in sets of two, four, six or eight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are the one thing in the shop that lives outside, and along a path at night they do what the stone ones do at a temple: mark the way in a line of warm squares.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Michiakari, is the path light, the lamp that shows the way, and the lanterns are that in a row.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe body is a black weather-resistant plastic, moulded as the roof, the lantern box and the post, with the panel set flush on the roof, the LED and the battery inside the box, and a stake that fits into the base. The windows are a translucent panel behind a lattice, so the light comes through as a grid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePush the stakes into the ground along a path, a border or a drive, a pace or two apart, where the roofs get sun by day; on a balcony they stand in a pot. There is no wiring and no switch to remember. The light is warm and low, a guide rather than a floodlight, and the lattice throws a pattern on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lattice is the detail: the four windows are moulded as the crossed bars of a paper screen, and the LED behind them lights the bars in silhouette, so each lantern is a small lit house at night. The roof has the pitched, upturned eaves of the temple lantern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a garden they are a line of warm squares. From close the lattice shows its bars, the roof its eaves, and the panel its glass. They are the lanterns for a path to a door, and for a person who wants the temple garden in a border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWipe with a damp cloth; brush snow off the panel in winter so it keeps charging. The battery inside lasts a few years and can be replaced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach lantern stands about a forearm high on its stake, with the lantern box the size of a fist. Sets of two, four, six or eight; a short path takes four, a long one eight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YONAKU","offers":[{"title":"2 lanterns","offer_id":59207924253020,"sku":"YNK-SOLA-JAPA-GARD-2-LANTERNS","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 lanterns","offer_id":59207924285788,"sku":"YNK-SOLA-JAPA-GARD-4-LANTERNS","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6 lanterns","offer_id":59207924318556,"sku":"YNK-SOLA-JAPA-GARD-6-LANTERNS","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"8 lanterns","offer_id":59207924351324,"sku":"YNK-SOLA-JAPA-GARD-8-LANTERNS","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/solar-japanese-garden-lanterns-michiakari-1.jpg?v=1790585914"}],"url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/collections\/japanese-lanterns.oembed","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}