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Asakusa Tourousai Lantern Festival 2026
For eight nights in September, the grounds of Asakusa Shrine and the lanes around it fill with illuminated lanterns — hand-decorated, lit from dusk, and switched off at half past nine. It is a quiet counterweight to Asakusa’s daytime crowds, and it costs nothing. What to expect This is the 19th edition of the festival, billed as “downtown lantern art.” Lanterns are displayed in the shrine grounds and along three nearby shopping lanes, so the whole thing works as a short evening walk rather than

Watashitachi no Kuni: Our Country
A calligrapher, a textile artist, and a textile-printing artisan spent a year working out how to turn wet ink into cloth. The results take over the atrium of Daikanyama’s Hillside Forum for six days in October, and it costs nothing to walk in. What to expect This is an installation rather than a framed-and-labeled hang. Calligrapher Ransetsu Ozawa supplies the brushwork — bleeding ink, dry-brush texture, and a lot of deliberate empty space — which textile-printing artisan Yasuhiro Udagawa transl