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29-96-380

From: Japan | Nara | Buddhist Temple

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Native Name Ranma 欄間
Object Number 29-96-380
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Japanese | Buddhist
Provenience Japan | Nara | Buddhist Temple
Period Meiji
Date Made Meiji - 19th Century
Section Asian
Materials Wood | Gilding | Lacquer
Technique Gilded | Lacquered
Iconography Tennin | Sho | Lotus Flower
Description

Wooden ranma. On it are two angels "Tennins", one holding a "sho", a kind of reed organ, the other bearing a lotus flower. Gilded and lacquered.

Length 193.5 cm
Width 82 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904

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