1908.82.191

Collection type

Object

Description

Amulet envelope stamped in red with an inscription. [SM 20/10/2008]

Geographical reference

Japan

Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan

Honshu Shimane Izumo

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 Paper Plant, Material Ink, Material Pigment, Material Glue, Process Stamped, Process Inscribed, Process Glued

Dimensions

Width: max 22 mm, Length: max 125 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1908.82.191 Other numbers: Chamberlain no. 244

Research and responses

This object was probably collected by Lafcadio Hearn who was based in this area and was asked by Chamberlain to collect material, whereas Chamberlain never visited this area. Information provided by Bon Koizumi, from Shimane Women's College in Matsue Japan, during a research visit in June 2006. [ZM 08/06/2006]

The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2009 as: “Yaegaki tosha gokito ??” - Prayer at the east shrine of Yaegaki. [SM 4/3/2009]

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. 7. [The article is written in Japanese apart from copies of correspondence between Chamberlain and Hearn]. [ZM 21/08/2008]

Search terms: Religion, Ornament, Writing, Amulet, Envelope, Inscription, Religious Object, Prayer Object