- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden amulet for curing bad eye sight, covered in paper with a stamped inscription. [SM 20/04/2009]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Basil Hall Chamberlain
- Field collector (Patricio) Lafcadio (Tessima Carlos) Hearn
- PRM source Basil Hall Chamberlain
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1908
- Date collected
- By 1908
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1908
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Paper Plant, Material Ink, Material Pigment, Process Stamped
- Dimensions
- Width: max 40 mm, Length: max 180 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1908.82.73 Other numbers: Chamberlain no. 269
- Research and responses
Bon Koizumi, from Shimane Women's College in Matsue Japan, during a research visit in June 2006 examined this object and thought, because of the location of the shrine, that it was possibly collected by Lafcadio Hearn. Hearn, was based in the area, and was asked by Chamberlain to collect material for him from this region. [ZM 09/06/2006]
See Collectors: Chamberlain in related documents file for information about Lafcadio Hearn. [ZM 12/09/2006]
The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2009 as: “Ichibata yakushi nyorai shugo” - Protection from Ichibata yakushi nyorai. [SM 20/04/2009]
- Associated publications
- See researchers file 'Koizumi' for copy of an article 'Prayer Inscriptions from the Shrines of Izumo which travelled to the Seas of England' by Bon Koizumi, San-In Minzoku Kenkyu: Bulletin of San-In Folklore Society, no 13 (2008), pp. 3-25. This object is listed in a table on p. 6. [The article is written in Japanese apart from copies of correspondence between Chamberlain and Hearn]. [ZM 21/08/2008]
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