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"Burning Water Lanterns in Jilong"
12019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f358This is an image of a painting made by the Japanese artist, Murakami Hideo, in 1927 of one of the key facets of the Ghost Festival. In this event, people carried water lanterns (portable shrines) through the streets of the city before setting them on fire and floating them in the harbor. The original hangs in the national Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, in Taizhong.plain2022-02-07T14:57:17-05:0025.1276, 121.739181927Murakami Hideo, "Kiirun ranbō suitō to" (1927); Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Painting_of_the_water_lantern_festival_in_Kiirun_1927.jpg.Murakami HideoFBMD01000a9e0d00009cd0000055320200848202003bc00200ac1104009e710600fb980600030107006c5c070002030b00Original painting, National Taiwan Fine Arts Museum, Taichung, Taiwan.This image is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License.Evan N. DawleyED-0028O7-2pk8iQ-c3z8xtPFBiPaintingDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277