Meiji Garden Ornaments

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...

This is a traditional Japanese item from ancient times. There is a culture in Japan that makes gardens beautiful. It is this stone that is placed in the place where visitors wash th...

From our recent Japanese Acquisitions Travels Japanese fine antique pair old Meiji period hand carved stone Komainu Lion-dog temple guardians. Fine condition with original patina j...

Wouldn't this antique garden stone lantern look perfect for your garden entry or pathway, pool, patio, or deck ? Just acquired, our Japan stone "...

For your special garden setting or indoor display space. Huge Hand Cast Bronze Bell With Multiple Signatures Bold pleasing sound Beautiful deep resonating ring tones await the new ...

A rare pair (2) of 19th century hard to find Japanese Usubata Flower Planter Carts "Norimono", Late Meiji Period. Japan, this handsome quality ol...

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...

A charming Japanese carved stone figure of Jizo, Meiji period, late 19th century, Japan. Jizo Bosatsu, as the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha is known in Japan, whose name means "Earth Womb" or "Earth Treasury", is the bodhisattva dedicated to journeying into the Buddhist hells to bring back worthy souls. He is the guardian of travelers and children, especially the unborn or those who died before they could be born. Jizo is one of the most beloved figures in Japan, where his images, mostly carved of stone (honoring his "earth" name origins), line temples, pathways, and the outskirts of villages. He is portrayed here as a kindly, bald headed...

No ordinary antique gong- Impressively rare art. Extra oversized massively thick bronze measures 20 inches diameter and 10.5 inches thick. Resonating sound guaranteed to please you...

This beautiful green sphere is an early 20th century glass float used by Japanese fishermen to keep their fishing nets or droplines afloat in the ocean. The hollow float would have been encased by a rope netting and used just like a modern buoy. Because these floats were commonly produced from recycled sake bottles, most antique glass floats...

This beautiful green sphere is an early 20th century glass float used by Japanese fishermen to keep their fishing nets or droplines afloat in the ocean. The hollow float would have been encased by a rope netting and used just like a modern buoy. Because these floats were commonly produced from recycled sake bottles, most antique glass floats...

Rarely offered with such an impressive provenance Japanese fine large scale hand carved granite stone kami god, Inari fox kitsune carved by an expert Japa...