'Entrance to Waka Miya, Nagasaki' [Japan]

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'Entrance to Waka Miya, Nagasaki' [Japan]

No. 36 of 51 (PAJ2051 - PAJ2101): inscribed by the artist on the album page, as title and dated '3/69'. One of two drawings by Butt of the Wakamiya, or Wakamiya Inari shrine at Nagasaki, the other being PAJ2067. This is a Shinto shrine in the Irabayashi district. It is today mainly known for its Tangenkei October festival, some 250 years old, in which a male and a female acrobat dressed as white foxes (the messenger of the Inari god) perform evolutions on the top of green bamboo poles some ten metres tall.

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Object Details

ID:	PAJ2086
Type:	Drawing
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Butt, James Henry
Places:	Nagasaki
Date made:	March 1869
People:	Butt, James Henry
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Sheet: 224 x 132 mm
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