Hand Carved Garden Japanese Stone Granite Lantern

Stone lantern is a plastic arts , which use a variety of stone to create a certain visual space , touchable art. East Asia is a traditional stone lantern lighting appliances from China . Stone lamp prototype is the first point of China's national Buddha lamp , which is available in the form of light , and spread to Japan later, the Korean Peninsula , Vietnam, Okinawa and other places. Stone lights indicate " vertical bright " means. Stone lamps are widely used today to temples and landscape architecture .

Also referred to as the Lantern , Han traditional handicrafts, originated in the Western Han Dynasty 1800 years ago , the annual Lunar New Year, the fifteenth day after the Lantern Festival , people hang red lanterns symbolic meaning of reunion to create a festive atmosphere. Lanterns also to prevent the wind off the lights and made utensils, lantern indoor shrine using a wooden frame . The outdoor lamp is a solid stone , usually on the ground floor lamp buildings .

Japanese stone lanterns are imported from China in the Tang Dynasty through the Korean peninsula. With the introduction of Buddhism to Japan, Nara era monastery began to build large numbers of stone lamps , stone lamps are generally monks use . To the Heian period , the shrine has also been a similar stone lamp . Now the Japanese shrines , temples and old streets still have a large number of fixed stone lamps. In pre-modern port area also developed a similar stone lighthouse lamp night light often .

Vietnam stone lamps common in Chinese Buddhist temples and monasteries large temples. In addition to other areas of similar shape , but also some stone lantern lamp compartment cover the approximate shape of the bowl -style tower will be accompanied by some type of pole puff sessions , multi- shaped orbs with Tasha . Some stone lamp pole is very long, very light body , in pairs, usually in a square stone lamp pole , carved with couplets on some poles, some settings at the entrance as the use Anta . Also some stone lamp light room more than one level , was a tower . Some other colors painted on the stone lantern , or glazed tile roof covering buildings . Some stone lantern to the top of the stone lions instead of buildings . Some local Theravada Buddhist monastery by Jing ethnic cultural influence , but also set the stone lamps, these lamps with stone buildings like roof top in Southeast Asia , East Asia, there are significant differences in the architecture of the stone lamp .

Stone lantern became an important part of the Japanese garden culture. The usually material are granite stone lamps, common are: sesame white stone cage, bluestone stone lamps, sesame Grey stone lights. Kyoto High Court Segawa two Azumaya wind lantern is Japan's largest existing stone lamps, 13 meters high

The stone lamp was used for the Japanese garden , garden decorations began late sixteenth century Momoyama era. At that time, the great development of the tea ceremony , stone lamps are often used as a tea room and extensive outdoor decorations into the garden decoration. With the change in style stone lamp uses, stone lamp styles will be more diversified , such as the emergence of a three-legged or four-legged hsuehchien stone lamps, while part of the pole and Li has also given a new design by imitation stone lamp into innovation. Japanese stone lantern in addition to a small temple shrine outside for most of the stone for garden lights , garden decorations .

  With the development of the domestic use than stone temple garden lights , real estate developers have begun to use stone lamps do residential, villas, garden decoration resort . With various styles and variety of materials .