TYPE: Broadside (Kawaraban)
DIMENSIONS: 12 X 16 inches
NOTES: Rare. First example I've seen.
LANGUAGE
Japanese
ITEM ID: 636
Skeleton Broadside
DATE
Year: 1866
Decade: 1860s
Century: 19th (1801-1900)
A skeleton broadside printed on both sides. It depicts death and skeletons performing rituals, and was probably meant to keep the average person on the straight and narrow in a humorous way. This is a a Buddhist- themed manga
According to scholar Andrew Gebert, “I’m not trained in reading the cursive script, So I can’t help with most of this, but the first four characters of the title here look to be 一体焼く偈. Buddhist incantation (gāthā) for burning a body.”
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