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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Red mythological creature on cloud holding chain with votive slip on hook.
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Two-unit votive slip with double black border. Dragon dance mask with votive picture panel in teeth.
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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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Four-unit votive slip with double black border. Depicts people crossing a river on backs of red ogre and old man. Upper left and bottom right corner lift up illusionistically to reveal text. Red seal in bottom left corner.
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Two-unit votive slip with two creatures, adult and child, sitting and eating on grass. Red slip with black text in upper left, black slip with white text in bottom right.
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Votive slip with no border. Collage of faces and text.
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This slip is part of a series based on iroha karuta, a card-matching game linked to the Japanese syllabary. In its orthodox form, one set of cards would each have a poem on it beginning with a different syllable. Another set of cards would have that syllable accompanied by an illustration. The picture-cards would be scattered on the floor, and one person would read the poem while other players scrambled to find the matching card. In this case, instead of a poem the lower card contains a phrase having to do with senjafuda or one of the members of the ren. Here it’s Ōta Setchō, the name of a senjafuda participant. The picture on the top card is of an oni, which of course begins with the same syllable as Ōta. The match of image to name entails a playful suggestion that Setchō himself is an oni – in this case, a rather dumpy-looking ogre with a bulbous red nose and bright red loincloth.
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Four-unit votive slip with double black border. Scene with three people. White slip with black text in lower left corner.
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The two daimei read “Starr” and “Maebashi” (Starr’s companion). This slip may be a reference to the traditional spring ritual of scattering toasted beans to chase away demons; other slips in the Starr collection show demons being chased away with senjafuda instead of beans.
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Single-unit votive slip with black border. Text in upper half, image below, all against blank background.
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Single-unit votive slip with black border. Text in upper half, image of ink brush and pot on fire below, all against blank background.
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Single-unit votive slip with black border. Text in upper half, image of samurai helmet below, all against blank background.
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Single-unit votive slip with black border. Text in upper half, image below, all against blank background.
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This slip shows the traditional spring ritual of scattering toasted beans to chase away demons, with two twists. First, an actual oni is shown fleeing into the distance. Second, instead of beans the man in the foreground is tossing senjafuda at the oni.
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An Ōtsue style oni kneeling on a red carpet as if in greeting. The writing top left is a series of daimei. The pose, the red carpet, and the formal kimono suggest a rakugo storyteller bowing to the audience prior to beginning his routine. The object in front of him is a mallet used to strike a small gong, a standard accoutrement of oni in Ōtsue; here the oni has placed it in front of him as a rakugo performer would place his folding fan.
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An anchor lowered from a cloud has hooked a bag of puffed rice (okoshi), which the caption identifies as an “Asakusa specialty.” The brand name on the bag is Thunder (kaminari), which ties in with the unseen figure on the cloud lowering his anchor: a thunder god.
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Single-unit votive slip with black border. Black and white images against black background. White slip with black text above image of nude figure turned away, running or dancing.
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Two-unit votive slip with double black border. Two masks, human and monster. Black text in upper left. White slip with black text in upper right.
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Two-unit votive slip with partial black border. Three small white skeletal figures and large red skeletal figure near water. White slips with black text in upper right and lower left corner.
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Two-unit votive slip with partial double black border. Blue and purple perimeters around image of budda sitting on lotus flower atop purple cloud. Lotus flowers and plants below. Black and white slips at right. Rolled up scroll with black text, white slip with black text, along left edge.
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Single-unit votive slip with partial double black border. Blue and purple perimeters along upper and lower borders. Multiple white slips with black text along upper border edge. Green ghoul with white skeletal figures and flaming chariot.