Vintage Japanese Ema Votive Plaque Hand-Painted Wooden Shrine Offering Wishes & Blessings 5" Reproduction Artist Biography — Arai Yoshimune

Artist Biography — Arai Yoshimune II (新井芳宗

Tsutsugaki involves hand-drawing patterns with a resist paste

Such imagery is traditionally associated with good fortune

Foreword by Ian Bottomley & Anthony J

This style of bowl is favored by Japanese Buddhist sects for its tone

Vintage Japanese Ema Votive Plaque Hand-Painted Wooden Shrine Offering Wishes & Blessings 5" Reproduction Artist Biography — Arai YoshimuneJapanese Ema Votive Plaque Sanjusangendo KyotoJapan, mid 20th century to contemporaryDimensions: 4. 75" x 4. 75" This hand painted Ema () is a traditional wooden votive plaque used at Shint shrines and Buddhist temples throughout Japan. Visitors purchase these small tablets, write their wishes or prayers upon them, and hang them at the shrine, where they are believed to be received by the kami (deities) or Buddhist figures enshrined there. The