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Ema: Wild boar under a branch of blossoming winter plums

Inscription: 1. The seal at the bottom right states one of the three common names of the shrine: 湯島天神 神社 (Yushima Tenshin Jinja). 2. top left: 開運 (Japanese reading: kaiun), a wish formula in the sense of "turn for the better". 3. bottom left in brush lettering in black: 深, an intensifying sign in the sense of deeply felt. On the reverse: a handwritten note by the collector, Hannelore Großmann: " Yushima Tenjin, 3 November 1983". (Comment: SN).

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Wish board
Dimensions
Height: 11,2 cm
Depth: 1,1 cm
Width: 17,3 cm
Material/Technique
Colour, India ink, Nylon cord, Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I D 52007

Provenance and sources

when
1983
where
Japan [Land]
Tôkyô-to (東京都) [Gebiet]
Bunkyô-ku (文京区) [Bezirk]
Yushimatenjin (湯島天神) [Schrein]
who
Grossmann, Hannelore - Collectors

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