Talismansthe gallery← talismans.guru
Japan & Korea · c. 300 BCE – today

Ofuda & paper charms

What it is
Paper or wood talismans from shrines and temples placed on the kamidana home altar or pasted by doors. They include the Tsuno Daishi horned-demon print against disease and Gozu Tennō plague charms.
Making yours
Wooden slips (kifuda) 15–30 cm, or woodblock-printed paper in black ink with red seals.
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Every type in the gallery

Anything in the gallery can be made, by hand, in the prescribed metal or yours and, where the tradition names an hour, at that hour or with a plain note that it was not. Numbered. Price on commission, quoted first. I reply within one business day.