Rare Pair Japanese Rabbit Lighting Lanterns

Hares that burst with brilliant night light – see photo.

Brilliantly designed and beautiful to Admire at night

Japan, this handsome pair (2) of quality old style seated rabbit motif iron garden lanterns are an exceptionally rare find and an authentic old works of art surving in older black hand painted colors.

Created to original eponymous master craftsmanship standards, these wonderful rabbits are an especially hard to find style and will be highly coveted in years ahead. Many of our customers place LED or candles or tea lights inside the bottom of the main section making a romantic and enjoyable decorative accent for entertaining friends and family.

In a convenient portable size, they may be suspended from their iron loops or installed on any surface.

Dimensions: Each 10.5 inches tall to top of head and 9.5 inches wide.

Good garden candidates with attractive and prolific pierced perforations that burst with shining light at night. They are an ideal accent size for your favorite indoor display, or for special outdoor garden spaces.

Provenance: Old American, Japanese garden.

An excellent choice for your indoor or outdoor garden spaces.

Lifetime guarantee of authenticity.

Our gallery based in Newport, Rhode Island USA has been dealing in authentic Pre-Columbian, Japanese and fine Asian art, garden ornaments, lanterns and water basins for 25 years. Our president personally travels across America as well as Japan and Europe each year to meet his network partners who assist him in finding best examples. He personally inspects each antique work of art to ensure its old age, authenticity and quality condition.

History of Japanese lanterns:

In Japan a to¯ro¯ (lantern) is a traditional lantern made of stone, wood, or metal. Like many other elements of Japanese traditional architecture, it originated in China. In Japan, to¯ro¯ were originally used only in Buddhist temples, where they lined and illuminated paths and lighted lanterns were then considered an offering. In its complete, original form the lantern represents five elements of Buddhist cosmology: Bottom touching the ground, represents chi, the earth, the next section represents sui, or water, ka or fire, is represented by the section encasing the lantern’s light or flame, while fu¯ (air) and ku¯ (void or spirit) are represented by the last two sections, top-most and pointing towards the sky. These last two sections express the IDEA that after death our physical bodies will go back to their original, elemental form.