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Painted wooden votive plaque known as ema (絵馬), depicting a woman praying next to a shrine. The woman wears a grey and red robe; the background is blue. The back has "Daishi Inari" written in pencil.
Figure of an elephant on an oval base. Elephant has a long and thin tail and trunk.
Stylized human figure flat brown wood club with a paddle-like shape. One side is carved with elaborate geometric patterns all over the body, two circular inlaid abalone shell eyes, an open oval mouth with the tongue hanging out to slightly to its right side, and the two hands clasped together at the front holding an abalone shell object. The other side is carved with a log-like house on the top with an abalone shell inlaid star and crescent moon above on either sides, a diamond-shaped inlaid abalone shell in the middle, and a face at the bottom with oval inlaid abalone shell eyes slanting diagonally downward toward the small nose, below which, there is an open oval mouth with the tongue hanging out slightly to its left side, underneath which, a paddle and a spear cross with a sitting figure to their left side. There is a flat handle.
A red lacquer model temple (part a) with a roof (part b). The temple (part a) has three sides closed with glass and one shaped arch opening surrounded by a fence along both sides which leave an opening in front of the shaped arch opening and on its opposite side. The roof (part b) tapers upward along all four sides to a smaller square top at the centre. There is a bronze bell at each of the four corners of the roof (part b).
Seated female figure representing the Japanese empress (part a) dressed in imperial costume. Elaborate headdress of gold-coloured metal and beads. Predominantly red-orange and white. Stand (part b) is wood in the shape of a book covered with green cloth and having orange and white binding.
Barrel-shaped copper object covered in repousse devotional prayer in Tibetan script; object is capped with red paint and a pointed finial, and has a short metal tube attached at the bottom. A length of copper wire tied to a small piece of lead it attached to the side.
A square basketry object with a dark brown cross on a light brown ground.
Bowl-shaped; from rim: thin line, band of six squares with orange centres and dark slightly rounded outlines, band of six larger squares with same design, thin line ("morning star" pattern?).
Household shrine encased in a black boxlike structure. Front opening has two pairs of hinged doors. Predominantly gold, black, and red. Part a is the overall box structure; parts b and j are red railings; parts c and e are gold-coloured stands; parts d and f are gold-coloured candle stands; part g is a lotus-shaped stand; part h is a stand that apparently has had a (formerly separate) Buddhist Bodhisattva figure (N2.838 a) glued onto it; part i is a vase attached to its own stand; part k is a black fence; part l is a table; part m is a gold metal bracket for table; part n is a stand for table; part o is a stand with feet for encasing part a; part p is the base for under part o.
Red clay vase, conical in shape with a round pointed bottom widening to the base, then it slightly narrows to the uneven, circular opening. The rim has a grey line running horizontal along the edge. Other areas of the vase have grey colouring. There are black markings on the sides reading, ‘XVIII – dyii:’ and ‘V52c’.