Forgotten Visions of the Afterlife: Nineteenth Century Posthumous Votive Portraiture in Iwate, Japan, Rediscovered

Among the most colourful and abundant talismanic objects in Japan are ema—votive portraits—found at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in every region of the country. Like its material counterparts in other areas of the world, most scholars agree that ema constitute a mode of folk expression that r...

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Main Author: Thompson, Christopher (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: University of Saskatchewan [2010]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2010, Volume: 22, Issue: 2
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