Brutkey

Martin Owens :inkscape:
@doctormo@floss.social

Does anyone know what this is?

I found it today nailed to the inside of a closet wall which is an outside wall of the house. Attached in such a way that it couldn't possibly have been put there after the house was built in 1873.

It looks like Japanese print and seems to be wrapped and stuck into a sort of envelope. It was hanging vertically from the top beam and had been there for a very long time. As you can tell from the degradation.

But what in the world is it?

#mystery

A very yellow and eaten parchment sits on a wooden table. You can see traditional Japanese style images and some very small text. The middle is torn, missing and the whole thing looks very fragile. A hand is holding down it's curling lower edge.
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@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca

@doctormo@floss.social

Very interesting and enlightening human responses to this. I can only imagine what an LLM would regurgitate about this.

Steven Sandoval
@baltakatei@twit.social

@doctormo@floss.social An Ofuda of some kind to protect the residence from hostile entities? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofuda

C++ Wage Slave
@CppGuy@infosec.space

@doctormo@floss.social

Be careful. If it's that old, the green ink may well contain arsenic.