Japanese Wooden Shrine Plaque Ema Vtg Buddha Offering Life Feed Tigers EM64 oil painting Kanji on side: Soup bowls

Kanji on side: Soup bowls (suimono-wan)

Stains on the white cloth on the backside

There is a design on the inside and outside

The candle holder is made of ceramic and has a golden color

Japanese Wooden Shrine Plaque Ema Vtg Buddha Offering Life Feed Tigers EM64 oil painting Kanji on side: Soup bowlsVintage 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