By MOOK Scenic Spots Family Travel Life Network Editorial Department, compiled and reported by Liao Qiyu
Mifuneyama Rakuen Park in Saga Prefecture, Japan, is famous for its cherry and azalea blossoms in spring, which attract many visitors on pilgrimages and make it a well-known flower-viewing spot. In summer, it holds the "Cool Breeze Bamboo Lantern Festival." In this small Japanese garden, over a thousand bamboo lanterns are used to create a light art installation full of Zen spirit, making it the most beautiful summer poetry in Saga Prefecture.
The 2015 Cool Breeze Bamboo Lantern Festival introduced interactive installations to make the event even more beautiful and dreamlike. (Image source: team-lab)
The rhododendron sea at Mifuneyama Rakuen Park in spring is breathtakingly beautiful. (Image source: Mifuneyama Rakuen Park [Official] National Registered Memorial Site, Saga / Takeo City)
The Cool Breeze Bamboo Lantern Festival uses bamboo lanterns to create a stunning light art display. (Image source: Mifuneyama Rakuen Park [Official] National Registered Memorial Site, Saga / Takeo City)
The koi fish in the pond swim along with the ripples, creating a colorful and dreamy scene. (Image source: Mifuneyama Rakuen Park [Official] National Registered Memorial Site, Saga / Takeo City)
The 2015 Mifuneyama Rakuen Park "Cool Breeze Bamboo Lantern Festival" began its magical run from7the17th of8to the31th of15, transforming the park's5000square-meter Japanese garden with as many as
sleek and minimalist bamboo lanterns. In addition to lotus-like bamboo lanterns, light curtains, light pillars, and paper lanterns floating on the pond, this year the performance stage extended especially into the pond. Organizers projected digital artworks onto the water surface of Mifuneyama Rakuen’s pond, turning it into an interactive touch-screen-like device. Whenever small boats on the pond created ripples, the projected koi fish would swim along with the waves. This colorful, dreamlike interactive installation brought visitors a poetic summer night whispered by the evening breeze.
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