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