The glow spreads to the garden below, over the azaleas, stone lanterns ... in Akita prefecture, in Japan's Tohoku region. But Dairyuji is also the vibrant temple-home of the 38th head priest ...
The lantern festival at Manpukuji temple also commemorates the 350th anniversary of the death of its founder, Yin Yuan (1592-1673), as he is called in Chinese. Japanese know him as Ingen.