Picture of goddess, painted in colour. In folded red case, lined with blue paper. [SM 18/09/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Picture of goddess, painted in colour. In folded red case, lined with blue paper. [SM 18/09/2008]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Person: Field collector Basil Hall Chamberlain; PRM source Basil Hall Chamberlain
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1895
Date collected: 18 October 1895
Acquisition information: Donated: 1908
Materials and processes: Material Paper Plant, Material Textile, Material Pigment, Material Ink, Process Printed, Process Woven
Dimensions: Height: max 83 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1908.82.226 Other numbers: Chamberlain no. 140
Research and responses: The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2009 as: “Daihonzan Hase-dera” - Hase temple. [SM 15/07/2009]
Information given by Professor Itaru Chijiwa, Assistant Professor Seiji Hoshino (both from Kokugakuin University) and Norifumi Shimazu (Association of Shinto Shrines) during a research visit, November 2009. Numbers 226-228 could belong together as a set. [El.B 19/01/2010]
Associated publications: This object is referred to in an article by Basil Hall Chamberlain, Notes on Some Minor Japanese Religious Practices, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 22 (1893), pp. 355-370, p.363. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2842134 [El.B 06/06/2012]

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