Plate with a festival day at an Inari shrine (Lawrence 2011, pl. 104)

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Plate with a festival day at an Inari shrine (Lawrence 2011, pl. 104)
Image: From Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: The Romance of Japan (2011), pl. 104, p. 148 · Used with permission of the rights holder · Source

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A plate showing a festival day at an Inari shrine, with a red torii bearing a plaque inscribed ‘Great Bright God’, statues of foxes, banners, drums and music. Lawrence compares it with a period lantern slide of the same kind of celebration.

Description summarised from Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: The Romance of Japan (2011), pl. 104, pp. 148–149. Measurements and marks are as published and have not been checked against the object.

Provenance

Anonymous private collection, as stated in the source: Lawrence (2011, p. 259) says all Satsuma pieces in the book are from anonymous private collections in the USA and Europe (exceptions nos. 4, 29, 65 and 141, none of which is this piece).

Literature

Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: The Romance of Japan (2011), pl. 104, pp. 148–149.