Japanese paper charm. The charm has a rubbing? on one side in black pigment of rows of seated buddha's. [FB 07/01/2013]

Collection type: Object
Description: Japanese paper charm. The charm has a rubbing? on one side in black pigment of rows of seated buddha's. [FB 07/01/2013]
Long description: Japanese paper charm. The charm has a rubbing? on one side in black pigment of rows of seated buddha's. There are seven rows of four, one row of three and one row of two at the top arranged like a pyramid. [FB 07/01/2013]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan; Honshū Kantō Tochigi Nikko
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh; PRM source Wellcome Institute; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1985
Date collected: By 1916
Acquisition information: Loaned: 1985
Materials and processes: Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Inscribed
Dimensions: Width: max 135 mm, Length: max 38 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1985.53.97 Other numbers: R 14/ 1937 A 52390/ 2308
Research and responses: The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2013 as: Identical to 1985.53.214, 1985.53.229-236[FB 21/08/2013]

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