Japanese funeral customs: the cortège leaves the dead man's house for the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).

Date:
1880
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565793i
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Japanese funeral customs: the cortège leaves the dead man's house for the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?). Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Left, a Buddhist monk carrying a parasol leads the cortège; the palanquin, flanked by containers of leafy plants, is carried by four attendants; two men walk alongside the palanquin, holding aloft a slender yellow or gold (?) bow or arch; three men dressed in samurai costumes follow the palanquin; two women and a child weep as the cortège passes; a kneeling man watches from the verandah

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1880

Physical description

1 painting : ink, watercolour and gouache ; image and border 13.7 x 21.2 cm

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Bears number on backing paper: [go (5)]

Notes

On the same backing sheet as record number 565783i in this catalogue
Number five 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 565793i

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