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Boston, 190
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Add 15% I pay duty Matsuki prepaid the freight

Bought of BUNKIO MATSUKI
IMPORTER OF Japanese Fine Arts
380 Boylston Street
Bill Presented First of Every Month. 

C/S - Per S.S. Nippon Maru. - 

[[4 columned table]]
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| 1250 | 1 | Pottery figure of Weeping Rakwan [[checkmark]] |   | 

| 1251 | 1 | Pottery figure of Toritengu (Face like bird same as seen in old Nara mask) [[checkmark]] | Yen 1400 00 [[checkmark]] | 

| 1252 | 1 | Pottery figure of Rokuten [[checkmark]] |   | 

These precious and sacred earthen works were part of those treasures now preserved on the first floor of Pagoda in Horinji Temple Yamato.
The Temple Record points to the fact that Prince Shotokutaishi was the direct supervisor of the work if not done by himself.

History of how these came in my possession.

In olden times when the temple was in need of money if anyone was willing to give the sum demanded for the temple, one of these figures was given as a token of award.
This custom however, has long ceased, and what they have in the temple (as seen in the illustration in Shimbi Taikwan is being taken care of by the Japanese Government as 1st Class National Treasury or Kokuhō.
Mr. K Matsuzaki, Judge of District Court in Kobe, was the owner of these, having been handed down in his family for many generations.

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