Japan "Spirit Mountain" Stone Lantern Hand-Carved Organic Natural Style

A beautiful heavily hand cast iron lantern of simple but compelling Japanese mountain Kusaya or Minka house design with jointed roof line and Japanese enigmatic "X" open work fire panels...

An attractive hard to find "arched lotus" style kasuga lantern ready to be installed in your favorite garden space- perhaps leaning over that special wa...

One of a kind "Leaping Frog" lantern witrh original hand painted green body surfaces- hard to find original that emits brilliant night light Brilliantly designed and a handsome lan...

Wouldn't this antique garden stone lantern look perfect for your garden entry or pathway, pool, patio, or deck ? Just acquired, our Japan stone "Arts & Crafts" antique stone pathway lantern has its original patina from good age It displays especially well at night with an LED candle. Install them as pathway, deck, or pool lights, or as handsome entry or exit walkway lighting. Good original condition. Dimensions: 28 inches tall and 10 inches wide at top, two pieces Period: Late Meiji period (1900-1912) Quality: good details and carved from a dark solid gray hued stone Call or email us to reserve it as it is one-of-a-kind. The well proportioned carved stone lantern fashioned with a Classic minka house style top portion and, tapered square cut crane leg pole Firebox features Sun and crescent moon carvings. This lantern is currently in our Kyoto container shipment. Provenance: acquired from a Southern Japanese antique garden lantern collection. Many of our customers place LED candles inside the main section making a romantic and enjoyable decorative accent for entertaining friends and family. It's a good choice for your indoor or outdoor garden space. Lifetime guarantee of authenticity: All of our Asian works of art come with our lifetime authenticity guarantee. About Japanese stone lanterns: Japan’s stone lantern tradition is a concept that was imported from India and has existed in Japanese temples and gardens since the 7th century. Japan’s lantern tradition was originally conceived as entrance lighting and guardians to temples and pagodas and when lit served as an offering to Buddha. Some of the earliest stone lanterns were carved with Buddhist images on the firebox and usually had compartments for an oil lamp or candle. Later on, they became more secular in nature, and their use evolved as functional and decorative elements in traditional Japanese tea gardens where they served as a spiritual source of light for evening tea ceremonies. Often carved from granite stone, today’s vintage survivors serve as fashionable aesthetic elements in modern day Japanese and Asian inspired gardens. Today, during festivals and ceremonies, rice paper is often cut to fit stone lantern windows to increase reflection of candles placed inside them. Soon these paper lenses disappear and for one special evening and event, the glow is surreal. There are four main categories of antique Japanese stone lanterns. Tachi-gata are pedestal lanterns such as the famous Kasuga Zodiac lanterns, ikekome-gata are the so-called buried lanterns, oki-gata are small often portable lanterns, and yukimi-gata are renown as “water reflection” lanterns. This latter Yukimi style version perhaps Japan’s most Popular Style, is often mislabeled by westerners as “snow viewing” lantern- thought to accumulate a stack of snow during winter time in America’s northern areas. Sukiya Living magazine, a very good publication for authentic Japanese Sukiya living style, explains the names and positioning of the usually six different sections of a large stone pedestal...

This Chinese extraordinary natural marble stone painting of a mountain range in green and white colors is called a dream stone Shih-hua. It is a monumental masterwork of nature. Totally natural. Dimensions: Hardwood frame: 38 inches tall and 78 inches length Site: 30 inches tall and 70 inches length This thin marble stone painting is approximately 3/8 inch thick and is cut from a large slab of rough material revealing a unique, incredible pattern in soft green and white colors. This unique work of art was from historic Dali marble...

Beautiful intricately cast six panels butterflies lantern- an unusual find And bursting with 18 butterflies and a brilliant night light (see photo) Japan, this handsome heavy hand ca...

3-831 Japanese hard to find rooster candle lantern Marked on bottom Japan Remnants of original paint.  

Japanese hand painted cast iron bird candle lantern.

Japanese hand crafted and painted rooster garden lighting lantern decorative sculpture

A substantial vintage Japanese owl candle lantern made of blackened iron. Lantern holds a tapper candle within its base area. Owl's body is beautifully desig...

Hand carved stone milling bowl. This piece is a part of Brendan Bass’s one-of-a-kind collection, Le Monde. French for “The World”, the Le Monde collection is made up of rare and har...

Rare and complete Antique Japanese carved stone architectural model of a traditional Folk Cottage. Having a doorway and grid window at the fron...