It was this broad avenue, hung with bobbing white lanterns, alight with girls fluent in yukata (a light kimono) and little boys carrying lit-up white globes, that greeted me my first night in Kyoto, in 1984, on a three-day visit through Japan with my mother, en route to India.
Set around a sweet courtyard, hung unsurprisingly with red lanterns, Red Lantern House is located down a hutong (old alleyway).
The place was decorated a bit like a teenage girl's bedroom, with paper lanterns, gauzy pink window treatments and purple mats.
For the Wolves set, the band was partially obscured by a cloud of artificial smoke, and the stage was littered with candles and oil lanterns.
Volunteers help build the lanterns and work with local government and women's groups to determine the communities most in need.
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He is followed by two friends with candelabra and others carrying candles and lanterns, five choral singers who sing the Lamentation of the Virgin Mary at several points along the way, and many worshippers of all ages from Croatia and abroad wearing the tunics of religious brotherhoods.
We visited around this time last year, but a couple of weeks earlier, while the holidays still lingered, the last few evenings backlit with the glow of string lights and New Mexican farolito lanterns.
Fire was always a threat to the wooden palace and blazes were frequent, with the main culprits being wayward fireworks displays and knocked-over lanterns, as well as the odd angry eunuch.
It retains a reassuringly old-world feel: diners cram into wooden booths lit by candles and overhead lanterns, while aproned waiters bustle from the kitchen, carrying gleaming plates laden with sandwiches.
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