Japanese Buddhist Altar Fitting Bronze Flower Vase Vtg Hanatate Brown BA326 iris 7 cm long x 23

7 cm long x 23

7 cm long x 5 cm tall

66 long cm x 55 wide cm

White and gray glaze

17cm tall x 7cm wide x 5

Japanese Buddhist Altar Fitting Bronze Flower Vase Vtg Hanatate Brown BA326 iris 7 cm long x 23Japanese Buddhist Altar Fitting Flower Vase This is a bronze flower vase, hanatate, for Buddhist altars. It is common to offer a range of seasonal and symbolic flowers in front of a Buddhist altar. It is also a vessel for Sakaki leaves or Shashagi leaves in Shinto. The meaning of offering sakaki tree leaves is that the gods living in the sakaki tree will protect the grave and the soul. This particular vase has a gold crane shaped Nichiren Shoshu sect