- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Book printed in Japanese, with blue paper covers. [El.B 28/10/2013]
- 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, Material Yarn, Material Ink, Process Printed, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Width: max 158 mm, Length: max 224 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.53.509
- Research and responses
The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2013 as: “Nanajuni fu reifu engi shuho, kon”, 72 paper amulets for pasting, vol.2 . [FB 12/03/2015]
Search terms: Writing, Book, Inscription
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