Saidaiji temple in Bizen Province: a festival of purification on the fourteenth day of the first month. Stencil print by Terao Kenshusai.

The province is modern Okayama prefecture

Purification rites in water were connected with Shinto beliefs, here the most prominent buildings belong to a Buddhist temple, underlining the extent of syncretism in the religious practice of the time

Kyoto : [publisher not identified]

2 prints : stencil print, diptych stencil coloured on a block print outline

Terao Kenshusai-ga Bears publisher's mark, block cutter's mark and set title

Wellcome Collection 37484i

A rare print, perhaps late eightenth to early nineteenth century