Japanese Wooden Shrine Plaque Ema Vtg Shinto Hanging Wish Zodiac Wild Boar EM21 portrait including blank white pages

including blank white pages

The inside features two adjustable wooden brackets used for securing a scroll in place

Holding offering stand Sanpo

Slight insect damage

7 cm wide x 31 cm tall

Japanese Wooden Shrine Plaque Ema Vtg Shinto Hanging Wish Zodiac Wild Boar EM21 portrait including blank white pagesVintage Japanese Wooden Shrine Plaque, Ema Ema is a small wooden plaque used at Shinto, and sometimes Buddhist shrines, that worshippers can write their wishes, hopes, and dreams on. Once written, it is hung on a special wooden stand or tree where the kami (spirits or gods) are thought to receive them. This ema plaque has a picture of a white wild boar in the shape of a traditional dorei clay bell decoration. Zodiac animal imagery is common around the