Japanese funeral customs: a grieving family at the bedside of a dead man. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).

Date:
1880
Reference:
565661i
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Japanese funeral customs: a grieving family at the bedside of a dead man. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A red-robed Buddhist priest holds prayer beads and recites sutras (chants) at the bedside. Religious objects are placed on the floor around him; at the entrance to the room a guest (?) offers koden (?) (a gift of money) to two mourners

Publication/Creation

1880

Physical description

1 painting : ink, watercolour and gouache ; image and border 13.7 x 21.3 cm

Lettering

Bears number on backing paper: [ichi (1)]

Notes

Number one 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 565661i

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