Stamped folded envelope with stamped wrapper, the wrapper is bound around the centre with a paper strip. [SM 19/09/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stamped folded envelope with stamped wrapper, the wrapper is bound around the centre with a paper strip. [SM 19/09/2008]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Person: Field collector Basil Hall Chamberlain; PRM source Basil Hall Chamberlain
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1884?, uncertain
Date collected: 1884?
Acquisition information: Donated: 1908
Materials and processes: Material Paper Plant, Material Ink, Material Pigment, Process Stamped, Process Bound
Dimensions: Width: max 108 mm, Length: max 347 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1908.82.374 Other numbers: Chamberlain no. 29
Research and responses: The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2010 as: “Kakure no miya shinpu”, an amulet from Kakure no miya. (Kakure no miya is where the God Izanagi retired after he completed establishing Japan. It is in Awaji island, Hyogo prefecture) “Shamu”, shrine office [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 13/10/2010]
Notes written on database printouts by Professor Itaru Chijiwa (Kokugakuin University) during a research visit, November 2009, transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn when volunteering at the Museum in 2019: 'Upper red stamp shows ‘Jindai moji’ (invented divine writing), and the lower one reads ‘Taga-sha ?’ (Taga shrine).'. [JMC 10/7/2019]

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