- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Paper charm
- 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 1985
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant, Process Inscribed
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.53.183.3
- Research and responses
The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2013 as: “Saiyaku yoke o-mamori Daishigawara”, Amulet to ward of the evil, from Daishigawara (Kawasaki daishi). (Red seal) “Yagenbori Fudo” [FB 21/08/2013]
Search terms: Ornament, Religion, Writing, Picture and Graphic Art, Amulet, Inscription, Drawing
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