- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, folded paper printed with a cylinder with inscription and a red stamp. For figures contained inside the paper see [1985.53.894 .2] [EH [OPS Move] 27/6/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1916
- Date collected
- by 1916
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Paper Plant, Material Ink, Process Stamped, Process Printed, Process Inscribed
- Dimensions
- Width: max 87 mm, Length: max 110 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.53.894.1 Other numbers: R 13046/ 1936
- Research and responses
The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2013 as: ““Yorozu shinbutsu ichidai no o-mamori honzon”. [FB 11/03/2015]
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Writing, Amulet, Inscription
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