Japanese funeral customs: after the cremation: three women and a child pick bones from the ashes with chopsticks and place them in an urn. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
- Date:
- 1880
- Reference:
- 565939i
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Left, a Buddhist monk walks off; right, two men converse, watched by a child
Publication/Creation
1880
Physical description
1 painting : ink, watercolour and gouache ; image and border 13.6 x 21.3 cm
Lettering
Bears number on backing paper: [ju-san (13)]
Notes
On the same backing sheet as record number 565937i in this catalogue
Number thirteen of a series of sixteen paintings on Japanese funeral customs (Wellcome Library nos. 565661i, 565773i, 565779i, 565783i, 565793i, 565798i, 565803i, 565813i, 565911i, 565929i, 565935i, 565937i, 565939i, 565943i, 565944i, and 565952i)
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Wellcome Collection 565939i
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