Japanese funeral customs: in a wooden temple outbuilding, overseen by a Buddhist monk, three attendants dressed in loincloths uncover a tub-shaped coffin to reveal the body of a dead man. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
- Date:
- 1880
- Reference:
- 565929i
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Description
Left, a fourth attendant sets off carrying wooden pails; backgound left, gravestones and a sacred tree are visible
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: [ku (9)]
Notes
On the same backing sheet as record number 565935i in this catalogue
Number nine or ten (?) 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 565929i
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