When we find a paper lantern, it makes us happier with in a warm atmosphere.
It is easy to find Japanese paper lantern in many places in Kyoto.

Paper Lantern makes with extendable thin bamboo material as a frame with paper on the surface. It was used to use candle in it but not now, using electric light.
Kyoto Japanese Lantern is famous of its toughness fixing the born with hemp rope. It has thicker and stronger paper, too.
The paper lantern appears in a document which was written in 1085. The form of the lantern is a model of “Chochin Obake” Japanese famous monster.