Painted Prayers: The Japanese Folk Art Tradition of Ema

Starts at 10:00 AM PT. Public Balboa Park event. Cost: Free – $15.00. Painted Prayers: The Japanese Folk Art Tradition of Ema exhibition highlights one of Japan’s most fascinating folk painting traditions, ema – house-shaped wooden votive plaques offered as prayers in Japan’s Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Most ema are small and traditionally feature hand-painted imagery of deities, animals,

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