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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;aaroncab, post: 377612, member: 3974&quot;]Picked this up today - it&#039;s about 21&quot; x 15&quot;. I&#039;ve figured out it depicts torii(gate) and entrance to the shinto shrine on the island of Itsukushima, Japan. The torii is submerged at high tide.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsukushima_Shrine" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsukushima_Shrine" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsukushima_Shrine</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is signed/marked on the back. The carving seems too nice for this to have been meant to use as a tray or something functional(or maybe I&#039;m wrong).</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow - here&#039;s some pics. Any ideas as to how old this is? Artwork? Craft? ...or ...seems a bit nice to be a tourist souvenir but I&#039;m often wrong about that <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT - just discovered this type of carving is traditional to the area near the shrine -Miyajima - and is referred to as <b><font size="4">Miyajimabori. </font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]130170[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]130171[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]130172[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]130173[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]130174[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]130175[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]130176[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]130177[/ATTACH] </font></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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