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Damar Kurung is a lantern with a specific form derived from Gresik, East Java, Indonesia. It is different from the Chinese Lantern. Masmundari is a prominent Damar Kurung artist.
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History
Damar Kurung is a tradition of Muslims Gresik to welcome lailatul qodar in the month of Ramadan in the Islamic calendar, which hang lanterns resin brackets at the front of the house. According to research Jaseters, very different from the resin brackets lanterns lanterns Chinese people always identified by the community and various artists, Damar brackets even more affinities to Japanese lanterns commonly called andon.
Initially, resin brackets made by Masmundari family circle, until the brackets Damar Festival in 2012 many emerging services and providers Outlet resin brackets.
Form
Damar brackets have unique characteristics among the lanterns in different parts of the world, such as:
- Cuboid has a cube
- has a decoration on the top right-angled triangle shaped twin or twin equilateral
- triangles that form the letter "M" on the top of the lantern.
- has a buffer on the bottom of the lantern
- lined paper with two-dimensional image
Development
Today Damar brackets mengalim many developments, such as resin brackets made of mica acrylic, painting berfigura, bedside lamps, architectural building-up the design on the shirt. Until the use of resin brackets switching function which was originally a tradition of being a torch of national highways and city parks were created by the government of Gresik.
Damar Festival Brackets
For fungtion returns the actual resin brackets, Novan Effendy has created resin brackets festival that began in 2012 aimed at meningatkan society and restore the tradition of citizens Gresik.
In the Festival which is always held every year, thousands of resin brackets lit typical Gresik in a few days as well as providing education to the younger generation which is commonly called Pesantren resin brackets.