Japanese Tohro (Stone Lantern) sculpture - Belle Isle - Detroit, MI, USA
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N 42° 20.172 W 082° 59.150
17T E 336403 N 4689014
This outdoor sculpture is found outside the Anna Scripps Howard Conservatory on Belle Isle.
Waymark Code: WM4Y4N
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 10/12/2008
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Artist: Unknown (Japanese), sculptor.
Title: Japanese Tohro (Stone Lantern), (sculpture).
Dates: Installed 1985.
Medium: White granite.
Dimensions: H. 6 ft. x Diam. 5 1/2 ft. (4,000 lbs.).
Inscription: (On base, in Japanese characters: friendship)
Description: A carved white granite Japanese lantern bearing a Japanese inscription on the base that reads "friendship." The lantern can be lit to illuminate the path around the Japanese garden area.
The lantern was presented to Detroit on Sep. 19-21, 1985 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Detroit/Toyota Sister City Relationship. Lakashi Nishiyama, Toyota's mayor, and fifteen members of the Toyota City Council were present at the ceremonies. Mayor Coleman Young presented Toyota's mayor with a small replica of Marshall Frederick's leaping gazelle sculpture, which was created for the Levi Barbour Fountain in Belle Isle.
Note: The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.