Picture of burial place. The pictures depicts a shrine surrounded by a wall and trees with a rivers running alongside the left of the page [CAR 9/10/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Picture of burial place. The pictures depicts a shrine surrounded by a wall and trees with a rivers running alongside the left of the page [CAR 9/10/2008]
Long description: Picture of burial place. The pictures depicts a shrine surrounded by a wall and trees with a rivers running alongside the left of the page. There are hills at the top left and houses at the botton right hand corner of the print. A square red stamp of four characters has been stamped in the bottom left hand corner. [CAR 9/10/2008]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Field collector Basil Hall Chamberlain; PRM source Basil Hall Chamberlain
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1908
Date collected: By 1908
Acquisition information: Donated: 1908
Materials and processes: Material Ink, Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Written, Process Stamped, Process Printed
Dimensions: Length: max 215 mm folded
Object numbers: Accession number: 1908.82.675
Research and responses: The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2011 as: (Far right) “Yamato-no-kuni Takaichi-gun Unebi-yama” - Mt. Unebi in Takaichi-gun, Yamato province. (Writing in a box) “Jinmu tenno goryo shinkei” - Panorma of the imperial mausoleum of Emperor Jinmu. (Over the mountain in the top left corner) “Unebi-yama” - Mt. Unebi. (In the river on left) “Sakura-gawa” - River Sakura. (In the flag over the roof in the bottom right corner) “Unebi kyokai” - Unebi Shinto shrine. (Red seal) “Unebi kyokai” - Unebi Shinto shrine. (Left) “Meiji nijugo-nen hachi-gatsu nijugo-nichi hakko” - Published on 25 August, 1892. [SM 23/11/2011]

Search terms: Picture and Graphic Art, Religion, Death, Writing, Religious Object, Print, Inscription, Shrine, Plant