Tools
Japanese Do-so-Jin
- Title
- Japanese Do-so-Jin.
- Format
- Realia
- Published
- 197-.
- Description
- 1 piece, black, ceramic; 4 1/2" h. x 3" w. x 2 1/8" d.
- Notes
- ISR 273. According to Asayama: "This is a Do-so-Jin: a bell with a depiction of a couple embracing. Since sex is a good thing it has good magical value and because of this a depiction of sex can ward off evil spirits. Therefore many villages in Japan used to have a Do-so-Jin at each road entrance to the village so that evil spirits could not enter. This is a small modern Do-so-Jin."
- Review
- Bells with male and female embracing. Basrelief.
- Kinsey subjects
- Art--Japan--20th century. Magic. Superstition.