Japanese Wooden Shrine Plaque Ema Vtg Buddha Offering Life Feed Tigers EM64 oil painting This small lightweight round plate

This small lightweight round plate is the perfect size for serving small food and snacks

6 cm wide x 13 cm tall

Kanji on side: Soup bowls (suimono-wan)

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

Japanese Wooden Shrine Plaque Ema Vtg Buddha Offering Life Feed Tigers EM64 oil painting This small lightweight round plateVintage 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