Blank Wooden Ema Prayer Plaque with Cord and Bell

Inquiry ID : 0024

🌸 Description

This blank wooden ema—a Japanese prayer plaque—has a simple peaked shape and a plain surface with visible wood grain. It comes with a red-and-gold cord and a small gold-colored bell.

Made in Japan, the plaque measures 9 cm high × 13.5 cm wide × 0.7 cm thick, with a cord hole approximately 3.5 mm in diameter.

🌸 Features

• Blank wooden ema prayer plaque
• Includes a red-and-gold cord and a gold-colored bell
• Height 9 cm × width 13.5 cm × thickness 0.7 cm
• Cord hole approximately 3.5 mm in diameter
• Made in Japan

⛩️ History

Ema, literally “horse picture,” are illustrated votive plaques offered at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples to ask for divine help or express thanks. The earliest recorded use of the term dates to 1012, when three colored-paper ema were listed among offerings at Kyoto’s Kitano Tenmangū. This records the name, rather than the beginning of the practice. During the Muromachi period, large ema developed alongside a widening range of painted subjects. These paintings were displayed in dedicated halls known as emadō. In the Edo period, small ema offerings flourished among ordinary people, and their imagery became increasingly varied to express particular wishes.

This blank wooden ema is a prayer plaque supplied with a cord and bell. The product notes connect ema with the tradition of offering horses at shrines to pray for abundant harvests.

📦 Shipping Information

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