Painted Prayers: Japanese Ema Votive Plaques

Starts at 10:30 AM PT (ends 11:30 AM). Public Balboa Park event. Free. Ema (literally, “picture horse”) are wooden votive plaques on which visitors to Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples have for centuries written their prayers and wishes for the _kami _or Buddhist deities to read. Though these plaques originally featured horses, they evolved to feature many different images associated with variou

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