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Wood Amulet Somin Shorai Wood cylinder that has been carved with eight facets and is narrower at the top. It has three carved ridges around the middle. The top is painted yellow with a red five pointed star in the center. Around this extending down…

Wood Plaque - Ema with a picture of a toy snake The plaque is unfinished wood rectangle with a gabled top. Two stripes of wood are glued to the top with the longer one overlapping the other at the peak. They over hang the ends of the plaque. A green…

3 Wood Plaques - Ema A: Wooden rectangle with a peaked top background is whitewashed. On the front is a painted dog with the tail curved over the back an image of Inu-Hariko (Inu-Hariko were invoked for easy births and as a gift to shrines soon after…

Lion Head - Kaga - Shishi - Gashira Carved wooden Lion Head with detached ear. The head is carved in three pieces with the upper piece unfinished wood carved eyebrows slanting eyes wide nose upper jaw with blunt teeth and two fangs. Painted gold and…

Lion Head Shishi Gashira ( Neri - mono kneaded object) A: Lion head moulded from sawdust mixed with rice paste in three pieces. Upper head is painted red with green wing eyebrows gold slanting eyes with black pupils wide nose and gold teeth with…

Lion Head Shishi - Gashira of wood paste - Neri - Mono (Kneaded Object.) with bamboo spring. Red lacquered moulded wood paste head in four pieces painted black and gold eyebrows silver and black eyes wide nose with black and gold lines gold teeth…

Miniature paper umbrella in a plastic case. A: Umbrellla is made of folded paper wraped around wooden spokes attached to a handle. The outer design is flower shaped with six petals in red gold blue and white. The peak of the umbrella has gold foil…

Three Paper Butterflies with bamboo frames. A: Paper wings are painted with S - shaped design surrounded by dots in green yellow and silver. Reed tube or body is attached to fine bamboo frame surrounding wings. Solid reed body has green paper ends…

Eight Paper Ball Decorations with streamers. Sphereical corrigated paper balls have two wedge paper streamers attached with a white string. A B C: Ball in blue. pink yellow and white streamers in red on one side yellow on the other and Green on one…

Two lacquered paper fish ornaments. A & B: Fish are made of paper shaped into a puffed rounded form with scallop tail and fin. Possibly bamboo frame. Outside is pink paper lacquered with red and sprinkled with gold along body. Round silver and black…