Basket lantern - Basket lantern

...However, the word choto originally referred to a lantern made of a frame covered in paper and hung up as a hanging lantern. It then came to be used to refer to a basket choto made of paper covered in paper, with a handle attached and carried around. Eventually, a foldable choto with a split bamboo frame was developed, but the word choto fell out of use as the word came to be used to refer to this new type of light that was carried by hand. There is a theory that distinguishes between choto, a light that is hung up in one place, and chochin, a light that is carried around, and this, as mentioned above, shows the age of these terms and the process by which these lights were created. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Kagochoto" are listed below.

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…しかし挑灯の語は，初めは枠に紙をはり，吊灯籠（つりどうろう）として掲げたものをさした。ついで籠（かご）に紙をはり，取っ手をつけ，提げて歩く籠挑灯をよぶ語として用いられ，やがて割竹を骨とした折りたたみ式のものが行われたが，この新しい手提げの灯火具に提灯の語が用いられるようになって，挑灯の語はすたれた。挑灯は一所に掲げおく灯火，提灯は携えてゆく灯火と，この両者を区別する説があるが，これは上述のようにこれらの用語の新旧とこの灯火具の発生過程を物語っているといえよう。…

※「籠挑灯」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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