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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is male holding a sword with skull ornament tied to gold hilt.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is male figure in purple holding a yellow archery bow.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below are children watching dancing skeleton puppets.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below are two figures with human bodies and animal heads against yellow background framed by red maple leaves above and tall grass below. The figure at the bottom of the slip is dressed in an olive green kimono with white patterning and red belt, and has a rabbit head; the figure above wears a short light blue and white patterned kimono and has a fox head - masks?
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is figure looking into a full body mirror in which a skeleton dressed in red is reflected back.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is male in multicolored kimonos. Skeleton design on background.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is bald male in grey kimono holding a skull on a stick.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is male wearing a headband with skull ornament. Yellow background.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is male with grey hair pointing to tattoo on arm. Yellow background. Red seal against left border edge.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is a bald male against background filled with large skulls.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is male figure in a green kimono pouring something out of a gold item in his hand.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is female in purple kimono with white flowers and red obi belt. She holds a fan to her face that is decorated with the image of a skull.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is man in close up, possible kabuki actor, in mauve kimono with white pattern.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is woman holding blue fan and blue parasol. Two yellow butterflies float nearby.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is figure in red and purple kimono and holding a scroll.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is image of female with fan enclosed in a circle. Outside, a skull lies in a grey landscape.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is image of man holding a skull on red fabric.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is image of man gripping yellow strawlike material wrapped in white in his teeth. He holds a gold bell in one hand.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is image of man drifting in the current of a river, groping at the shoreline with an oar. There is a skull on the edge of the shore.
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Single-unit votive slip with double black border. Top has three white slips with black text against tripartite background of black, green, and brown. Below is image of man with a skull gripped in his teeth.
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Photograph of Frederick Starr, name in English above Japanese text.
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Paper with English text.
Transcript:
The collection of nosatsu and their study is interesting and instructive. From the simple name placard of the older time, in the period of Ansei, the nosatsu had become an art object that [illegible] the ingenuity and showed a wide range of subject and treatment. Today it continues the traditions of the past. The monthly meetings are conducted in the same way; the democratic spirit which marked the old time gathering still continues and all kinds of men—rich and poor, high and low, wise and ignorant, there come together on equal terms. Nowhere except in the nosatsu had the fine old art of color-printing been kept continuously alive as an actual practice. Nowhere else does one find as constant use of old Japanese symbolism. No group better than the Nosatsu Kai knows old ideas and customs and keeps them constantly before the mind. No one who wishes to know Japanese art, thought, custom or character can neglect the nosatsu.
Frederick Starr
Iwakuni, Japan. Taisho 6.3.2. [3-2-1918]
[untranslated Japanese text]
スタルー博士自著 納札二「」スル改感
End of transcript.
Transcribed by Tom Fischer.
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Single-unit votive slip with black border. Text along upper edge with central image of animal drawn in black ink. Band of white text against black against bottom border. Red stamp on animal's stomach. Black text along right border edge.