- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Charm box from temple of Kompira, showing manner of tying them up for wearing round neck. [SM 13/10/2008]
- Long description
- Charm box from temple of Kompira, showing manner of tying them up for wearing round neck. The box is made from wood, covered with yellow paper and tied with brown string. It has a stenciled red circular 'stamp', a black rectangular stamp and two small red stamps - one oval, one rectangular. [SM 13/10/2008]
- Geographical reference
- Marugame Kagawa ken (prefecture) Shikoku Kompira shrine in Kotohira
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1892
- Date collected
- Before 1892
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1892
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Paper Plant, Material String, Material Ink, Material Pigment, Process Tied, Process Covered, Process Painted, Process Twisted, Process Tied, Process Stencilled
- Dimensions
- Width: max 154 mm, Length: max 322 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1892.29.1
- Research and responses
Kompira Shrine in Kotohira, located about 10 miles (16 km) south of Marugame. [Encyclopaedia Britannica on line] [AP 24/3/2000]
- Associated publications
- This object is referred to in an article by Basil Hall Chamberlain, Notes on Some Minor Japanese Religious Practices, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 22 (1893), pp. 355-370, p.366. It is illustrated in plate XXV in the same article. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2842134 [El.B 06/06/2012]
Search terms: Religion, Box, Ornament, Amulet, Neck Ornament