石灯笼最早雏形是中国国供佛时点的灯，也就是供灯的形式。这种形式经朝鲜传入日本，其例子如平等院凤凰堂佛前的供灯。它表明“立式光明”的意思。随着佛教在钦明天皇十三年（552年）传入日本以后，石灯笼的技术也传入日本后作为园林小品得到大量应用。此本图谱为18世纪末日本的四册写本。在中国的山西省太原的龙子寺址中的摩崖佛前有唐以前的高大灯笼，它是中国最古的例子。在朝鲜的新罗遗迹中有多处石灯笼。庆南庆州的佛国寺、浮石寺、法住寺、华严寺中均有见之。与日本的石灯笼不同的是，它们结构较厚。石灯笼在日本具有悠久的历史。在佛前献灯火是佛教的重要礼仪之一，自奈良时代 (公元 710～ 794年 )起日本在修建寺院时就开始在寺院的正面建造石灯笼以保护向寺院所献的灯火，日本现存的最古老的石灯笼是奈良时代的当麻寺石灯笼，距今已有一千多年的历史了。到了江户时代 (公元 1603～ 1867年 )石灯笼在日本已广为流传，一些寺院里造型精美的石灯笼被作为样本模仿雕刻以至形成了石灯笼的各种形式。石灯笼被用于园林、庭院的装饰始于十六世纪晚期的安土桃山时代。当时由于茶道的大发展，石灯笼常被作为茶室的一种露天装饰物而广泛进入庭院装饰。随着石灯笼用途的改变,石灯笼的样式也就更加多样化了，例如出现了三脚或四脚的雪见灯笼。同时对竿和笠的部分也给予新的设计，石灯笼的式样由模仿进入创新.日本的石灯笼除了少量用于寺院神社以外。大多数的石灯笼是用于庭院、园林装饰使用。
The earliest rudiment of the stone lantern is the lamp at the time of offering Buddha in China, which is also the form of offering the lamp. This form was introduced into Japan through North Korea, for example, the offering lamp in front of the Phoenix Hall Buddha in the Equality Hall. It means “standing light”. With the introduction of Buddhism into Japan in the 13th year of Emperor Qin’s reign (552), the technology of stone lanterns was also introduced into Japan and widely used as garden ornaments. This atlas was written in four volumes in Japan at the end of the 18th century. In front of the cliff Buddha at the Longzi Temple site in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, there are tall lanterns before the Tang Dynasty, which is the oldest example in China. There are many stone lanterns in the ruins of Silla in North Korea. It can be seen in the Buddha Temple, Pumice Temple, Fazhu Temple and Huayan Temple in Qingzhou, Qingnan. Unlike the Japanese stone lanterns, they have a thicker structure. Stone lanterns have a long history in Japan. Offering lanterns in front of the Buddha is one of the important rituals of Buddhism. Since the Nara era (710~794 AD), when Japan built temples, it has begun to build stone lanterns on the front of the temples to protect the lanterns offered to the temples. The oldest existing stone lanterns in Japan are the stone lanterns of Dangma Temple in the Nara era, with a history of more than 1000 years. By the Edo era (1603~1867 AD), stone lanterns had been widely spread in Japan, and some beautifully shaped stone lanterns in temples were used as samples to imitate sculpture and thus formed various forms of stone lanterns. Stone lanterns were used for garden and courtyard decoration since the late 16th century in the Antuto Mountain era. At that time, due to the great development of the tea ceremony, stone lanterns were often used as an outdoor decoration of the teahouse and were widely used for courtyard decoration. With the change of the use of stone lanterns, the styles of stone lanterns have become more diversified, such as the appearance of three-legged or four-legged snow lanterns. At the same time, new designs are also given to the pole and hat parts. The style of the stone lantern is changed from imitation to innovation. In addition to a small amount of Japanese stone lanterns used in temples and shrines. Most stone lanterns are used for courtyard and garden decoration.

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