Japan Important Antique Tea Garden Lanterns Woodblock Guide Book, 100 Toro

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Japan Important Antique Tea Garden Lanterns Woodblock Guide Book, 100 Toro

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SALE - NOW SAVE 20% OR MORE From our most recent Japanese Acquisitions Travels A rare find. This is an original Japanese 19th century woodblock volume on tea ceremony Garden Lanterns (Toro). Includes eighty pages featuring 100 woodblock printed lantern designs of all shapes and sizes including Kasuga and Yukimi lantern styles and much more. Prints are immediately frameable. Original covers and title slips, all contents complete just the way we like to find them. Tea ceremony Garden Stone lantern collection Japanese Toro Woodblock print Book Title: SADO HOKAN (lit “Treasure pictorial book of tea ceremony“) Author Writer: Miyazaki Sachimaro Publisher: Aoyama-do Date: Meiji 41 (1910) This important volume and book has been registered as 40076193 National Diet Library. Woodblock prints are Immediately frameable. You can literally marvel for hours enjoying thumbing through this rare tome containing 100 woodblock prints of Japan's famous lantern works of art. They are hand printed on washi paper and traditionally thread hand-sewn. The prints are easily removable for framing if you so desire. Great gift for your garden loving friends and family! Age: All date to 1910. Dimensions: The album is 9.5 inches high and 7 inches width Provenance: an old Tokyo, Japan collection Extraordinary treasure find. Instant collection, paintings may be individually framed. Fine condition. 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.

Dimensions:
Height: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)Width: 7 in (17.78 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Style:
Meiji (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Paper,Hand-Crafted
Place of Origin:
Japan
Period:
Early 20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1910
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
South Burlington, VT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1289210797423