Japanese Wooden Shrine Plaque Ema Vtg Buddha Offering Life Feed Tigers EM64 oil painting There is a design on

There is a design on the inside and outside

Kanji on side: Soup bowls (suimono-wan)

Item weight: 227 grams

Fukusuke doll is a lucky doll that is said to bring happiness

Title of Piece: "Tora" (Tiger)

Japanese Wooden Shrine Plaque Ema Vtg Buddha Offering Life Feed Tigers EM64 oil painting There is a design onVintage Japanese Wooden Shrine Plaque, Ema This vintage Japanese ema plaque has an illustration of Shashin shinko, literally meaning "offering one's body to feed tigers", a story featured in the Golden Light Sutra. Buddha is falling down from a cliff and there are three tigers on the bottom. The ema plaque has some inscriptions in red. Ema is a small wooden plaque used at Shinto shrines, and sometimes Buddhist temples, that worshipers can write their