While perusing through an estate sale years ago, I found this very cool Japanese Garden Lantern in the garden.  It fit in with my whole Japanese/Modern look I like and when I came home I immediately put it in my garden.  One of my favorite things to do while living in Japan, which I wish I had done more often, was to scour the antique shops. They were usually small little shops with countless items for sale.  As a foreigner I didn’t really know what was valuable or not, but I pick what I loved and don’t think too much about the value of the item.  This way I figure, I fill my house…