The cuboctahedron in the past of Japan (Q1317520)

The author presents beautiful photographs of cuboctahedrons found at the tops of sacred buildings or used as lanterns in Bon ceremonies. He also notes in passing that ``Japanese traditional mathematicians (...) liked the cuboctahedron'' and that the important Korean lantern was not a cuboctahedron, hence Japanese were probably not influenced by Korean in such a matter. The present reviewer suggests, however, that some knowledge of the mathematical cuboctahedron might have been conveyed to Japan during the XVIIth century (or later) through the medium of Chinese mathematical books, such as Mei Wendings's Lisuan quanshu which contains a stereometrical study of this object, a study which in its turn is based on Clavius's commentary of Euclid's Elements.