- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, thin wooden board with inscription, partly wrapped in paper and bound with a red paper strip. [El.B 10/12/2013]
- 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 Wood Plant, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Inscribed, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Width: max 50 mm, Length: max 73 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.53.949
- Research and responses
The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2013 as: “Kotohira daijin norito senjo anzen kito shimpu”, amulet from Konpira for safe voyage [FB 11/03/2015]
Search terms: Religion, Writing, Amulet, Inscription
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