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Bernard Frank's o-fuda at the Collège de France

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The Collège de France recently received as a gift the collection of some 1,000o-fuda collected by Bernard Frank (1927-1996), who was the first - and until now the only - professor of Japanese civilization at the Collège de France. His wife and children have expressed their wish that his work be continued at the Institut des hautes études japonaises, which he himself directed for twenty years...

" O-fuda " of Jûichimen-senju Kannon (Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara with a thousand hands and eleven faces) from the Kiyomizu-kannon-dô temple in Ueno, Tokyo. First o-fuda collected by Bernard Frank.
" O-fuda " from Yanagishima Myôken (Hôshô-ji temple) in Tokyo.
" O-fuda " by Enma-ô (Yamarâja) from Ennô-ji temple in Kamakura.