Cultivated in Japan since the Edo period, both for ornamental use and as a medicinal plant, the hozuki (known in the West as Japanese lantern or Chinese lantern) received its name from the shape and the texture of the fruit, that looks like a small paper lantern.

Hozuki-Ichi, Senso-ji, Taito-ku, Tokyo

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