Vintage Japanese Ema Votive Plaque Hand-Painted Wooden Shrine Offering Wishes & Blessings 5" Metalwork This is a Japanese style

This is a Japanese style vase

This was once an ash tray and can now find new life holding incense and making cleaning up ashes a simple affair

such helmets were often worn in procession

a vertical bank of three small drawers to the right

Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島 勝之

Vintage Japanese Ema Votive Plaque Hand-Painted Wooden Shrine Offering Wishes & Blessings 5" Metalwork This is a Japanese styleJapanese Ema Votive Plaque Hand Painted Wooden Shrine Offering Tablet for Wishes & BlessingsJapan, mid 20th century to contemporary Fushimi Inari Shrine, KyotoDimensions: 5" x 5" This hand painted Ema () is a traditional wooden votive plaque used at Shint shrines and Buddhist temples across Japan. Worshippers inscribe their prayers or wishes upon these small tablets and hang them at the shrine, where the messages are believed to be received by the