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Snow lantern

Garden decoration

A snow lantern is a hollow cone built of snowballs into which a light is put, usually a candle or a Japanese stone garden lantern Yukimi Gata. People lighting their own snow lanterns is one of Sweden's, Finland's and Norway's Christmas traditions.

Festival

Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture, Japan holds an annual winter four-day Hirosaki Castle Snow Lantern festival at Hirosaki Castle. The festival had attracted 310,000 visitors in 1999 and included 165 standing snow lanterns and 300 mini snow caves.

References

Hati Titania and Ripley the unau. (22 May 2004). "How to Build a Snow Lantern". [[BBC]].
Ernst Kirchsteiger. (8 December 2010). "Swedish Christmas Traditions: A Smorgasbord of Scandinavian Recipes, Crafts, and Other Holiday Delights". Skyhorse Publishing Inc..
Anthony Rausch. (1 June 2001). "A Year With the Local Newspaper: Understanding the Times in Aomori Japan, 1999". University Press of America.

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