The Kasuga Shrine is a shinto shrine. All of the stone lanterns are donated by families. Originally they were stone, in later years they donated bronze but that is no longer the custom.
They decided that they no longer had space so when the festivals roll round, for a nominal fee, families have paper lanterns of their dedication put into the stone lanterns.
Depsite the torrential rain it was quite a striking sight. We ended up not going up to the temple. In fact, only four of us even went this far.
What ticked me off really was that we ended up not having time for hot wine at the souvenir shop before heading back to Kyoto. A day like that we could have used some!
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