A LACQUERED, GILT AND POLYCHROME WOOD PORTABLE SHRINE, ZUSHI, Japan, Edo Period, dated 1892

h cm 33,5 x l cm 23 x w cm 18

With an arched top and folding doors, gilt on the inside and bearing inscriptions. The central compartment houses Yakushi Nyorai standing on a lotus pedestal, flanked by Kannon and Dakiniten seated on a fox. A pair of kitsune stand in the foreground on a rocky base. The upper section features a shaped panel decorated with polychrome clouds and gilt scrollwork. The reverse bears a devotional inscription in red naming Yakushi Nyorai, Shō Kannon, Dakiniten and Inari Daimyōjin, dated to the third day of the fourth month of the thirteenth year of Tenpō (1842).