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Health-related votive tablets from Japan : ema for healing and well-being / Peter A.G.M. De Smet, Ian Reader.
- Title
- Health-related votive tablets from Japan : ema for healing and well-being / Peter A.G.M. De Smet, Ian Reader.
- Author
- Smet, Peter A. G. M. de
- Publication
- Leiden : Leiden Publications, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts; 26 cm
- Summary
- "Many Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan sell small wooden votive tablets (ema) which are meant to be left on a rack at the sanctuary. The reverse of these tablets offers space to send a self-written wish or personal thank you message to the enshrined deity or buddha. Their front usually has a pre-printed or hand-painted design that is indicative of the intended purpose. In this book hundreds of contemporary ema designs for health-related purposes are reproduced and placed into their religious and biomedical context. A final chapter explores why there are differences between these purposes and current epidemiological patterns. This is the first book in English on the long-standing tradition of ema."--Cover page 4.
- Subject
- Folk art > Japan > Exhibitions
- Votive offerings > Japan > Exhibitions
- Shinto > Customs and practices > Exhibitions
- Buddhism > Japan > Customs and practices > Exhibitions
- Spiritual healing
- Buddhism
- Manners and customs
- Exhibitions
- Faith Healing
- Spiritual Therapies
- Cultural Characteristics
- Exhibitions as Topic
- Medicine in the Arts
- Shintō > Coutumes et pratiques > Expositions
- Bouddhisme > Japon > Coutumes et pratiques > Expositions
- Guérison par la foi
- Bouddhisme
- Mœurs et coutumes
- Expositions
- Buddhism
- exhibitions (events)
- customs (social concepts)
- Oriental religions
- MEDICAL / Epidemiology
- PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist
- RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)
- Buddhism > Customs and practices
- Folk art
- Shinto > Customs and practices
- Votive offerings
- Shintoism
- Japan
- Netherlands
- Genre/Form
- Catalog
- Pictorial Work
- catalogs (documents)
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- Catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogue.
- Catalogues.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- Published to accompany the exhibition held at Japan Museum SieboldHuis, March 17 - June 11, 2017.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and indexes.
- Language (note)
- In English with some translations into Japanese.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9789087282523
- 9087282524
- OCLC
- 977832370
- SCSB-10835351
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library