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Composite of senjafuda 769_952_C685_v39_0031a-d, 769_952_C685_v39_ 0032a-g, 769_952_C685_v39_0033a-d, 769_952_c685_v39_0060b, 769_952_c685_v39_0061a, and 1964:3.23.1186.
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Eight-unit votive slip with double black border. Demonic figure with red face and while black hair and beard. Holds white slip with black text and ren mark in hand. Mirror in background with black text and red seal.
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Votive slip from the Shōbundō senjafuda collection (Coll 482), Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon. Photograph by Glynne Walley.
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A gargantuan 32-chō image of a statue of Enma festooned with senjafuda. At the bottom of the composition, dwarfed by the statue, we see daring pasters in action, with ladders, pole-mounted brushes, and chests containing their daimei fuda. The reddish-brown surfaces to the sides and top of the statue are meant to be understood as a gate through which we are viewing the scene; at the top is a huge ema, with a black frame, held up by two metal clamps. The bottoms of huge hanging lanterns can be seen through the gate. Gateposts and lintel are also covered with senjafuda, and the ema on the lintel is filled with more daimei. Each of these slips-within-the-slip represents a real-life senjafuda practitioner who participated in the funding of this slip. The contrast between Enma’s ferocious expression and the nonchalance with which dozens of pasters have violated his sanctum makes this scene a masterpiece of humor as well as of senjafuda design.
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A large (4-chō) depiction of a statue of Enma with four senjafuda pasted to his chest. It’s possible that this is only the left side of an 8-chō composition, and that the right side is missing from the Starr collection, but it’s also possible that this is the complete composition. The framing emphasizes both the monumental size of this statue of Enma and the comical impudence of the four strips that have been affixed to it.
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A statue of Enma with a senjafuda pasted onto his nose. The senjafuda on Enma’s nose says “Yasu,” part of the name of the sponsor of this trip; a fuller version, “Ieyasu of Yoshiwara,” is given above the statue. The miniature senjafuda pasted onto Enma’s nose is actually a separate piece of thin paper pasted onto the senjafuda.
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Two-unit votive slip with black border. Depicts bronze-colored sculpture of angry man or creature with yellow eyes and yellow teeth. Sitting in large chair at table with vase out of which pours smoke. Red slip with black text along upper right edge. Multiple black and white slips along bottom border edge.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Red flower symbol with black text at top, black slip with white text below. Red mask below.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Bright pink background above with red seal at right. Image of bearded male with elaborate hat below. He holds white slip with black text.
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