Japanese funeral customs: the cortège leaves the dead man's house for the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).

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Description

Left, a Buddhist monk carrying a parasol leads the cortège; the palanquin, flanked by containers of leafy plants, is carried by four attendants; two men walk alongside the palanquin, holding aloft a slender yellow or gold (?) bow or arch; three men dressed in samurai costumes follow the palanquin; two women and a child weep as the cortège passes; a kneeling man watches from the verandah

Publication/creation
1880
Physical description
1 painting : ink, watercolour and gouache ; image and border 13.7 x 21.2 cm
Notes
On the same backing sheet as record number 565783i in this catalogue
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 565793i
Attribution and usage
Wellcome Collection
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