Japanese Lantern (Boston)

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Japanese Lantern
Winter in Boston Public Garden - IMG 8336.JPG
The lantern in 2010
Japanese Lantern (Boston)
Location Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates 42°21′16″N71°04′13″W / 42.35439°N 71.07029°W / 42.35439; -71.07029

Japanese Lantern is a 1587 lantern sculpture [1] , installed in Boston Public Garden, in Boston, MA, United States. The lantern was given to the city in 1904 by antiques dealer Bunkio Matsuki, [2] who had been educated when he arrived in Salem MA by antiquarian Edward S. Morse.

References

  1. "Japanese Lantern, 1587". cultureNOW. Archived from the original on 2019-11-23. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  2. "Prominent Americans Interested in Japan and Prominent Japanese in America". Japan and America (January 1903): 90–91. 1903 via Internet Archive.