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Posted by Herb Victoria, B.C. (My Page) on Mon, Sep 12, 05 at 23:29
| ...... as well as of other countries are at this site - http://www.galenfrysinger.com/
One page in particular - showing Kanazawa and Kenroku-en - includes a picture of a lantern that's less rustic than, but is nonetheless similar to, the lantern in the Nitobe Memorial Garden (see the posting "Making a Mountain Lantern" in the gallery section of the forum) that Edzard says is not a mountain lantern, but Nitobe's family symbol lantern, sun and moon being a symbol of the Nitobe family. The similarity is so striking that I wonder if this lantern also has a connection to Nitobe's family?
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RE: Many pictures of Japan...
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- Posted by Herb Victoria, B.C. (My Page) on
Tue, Sep 13, 05 at 11:46
| Since starting this thread, I've learned that the lantern in the Nitobe Memorial Garden that I mentioned is connected to the Nitobe family not by reason of its style, but because it bears particular inscriptions. (See my posting in the thread 'Making a Mountain Lantern'.) |
RE: Many pictures of Japan...
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Herb, it is similar in motif, and the type of lantern is similar in that is it comprised of the same number of pieces, the usual way of sorting lanterns.
It is however finished, therefore not being of the rustic type. It does look to be a composite piece, being of several amalganmated lantern types. (mountain, if so called since 'who caries tools into the mountains to carve a marker' making natural stones a natural choice but not restricted to only mountains - unless we called Japan as all mountain.. hair splitting I suppose, which made sense at one time, except that the 'number of pieces' way of denoting lanterns started to make sense after a few years. learning and fine tuning always happens, shrug)
excellent observations and connective process Herb...
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