Beautiful Carved Granite Garden Lanterns

Stone lanterns are used for gardens, courtyards decorated sixteenth century began in the late Momoyama era. At that time, the great development of the tea ceremony, stone lantern is often used as a kind of open-air teahouse decoration and broad access to garden decoration. With stone lantern repurposed, stone lantern style will be more diversified, such as the emergence of a tripod or four legs lantern, while a portion of the pole and lap has also given a new design, style stone lantern into the innovation by imitation.

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 premodern port area also developed a similar stone lighthouse lamp night light often .