Japanese Motif Section in the Wohl Rose Garden

There are two typical Japanese sculptures in the garden. Both look like ritual Shinto lamps made of stone or concrete. One is the size of small child, and the other 2.5 heights of an average adult man. They are constructed in such a way that a small lamp box up is supported by a long vertical post. The Japanese design tradition prefers square shapes a lot, and such a lamp looks like a pagoda with the top floor left only. As lighting candles is a universal cross-religious ritual it might be also proper to say this vertical candlestick is a Jewish one as well if we start use it for Jewish religious purposes. From Moni di Montebianco's ebook "Forced from the Garden"

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