Inspired, he began creating the lamps, for which the designer came up with a new name: Akari. "The name Akari, which I coined, means in Japanese 'light as illumination'", Noguchi said, according to Masayo Duus' book The Life of Isamu Noguchi.

"It also suggests lightness as opposed to weight," he added. "The ideograph combines that of the sun and the moon. The quality is poetic, ephemeral, and tentative."

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