- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Paper packet containing rice and beans, with inscription in red. [El.B 18/11/2013]
- Geographical reference
- 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 Rice Plant, Material Bean Seed Plant, Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Printed
- Dimensions
- Width: max 85 mm, Length: max 70 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.53.656
- Research and responses
The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2013 as: “Doryo mae (zen) goku”, Offering for Doryo. [FB 11/03/2015]
Search terms: Religion, Writing, Amulet, Inscription
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