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The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library holds a Japan Collection of glass magic lantern slides from two principal groups. The collection includes 682 slides made in the 1930s by Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai to promote Japanese culture abroad and nearly 1,000 older slides donated by the family of the Rev. Takie Okumura, a prominent figure in Hawaii's Japanese community.

Seventeen hand-colored, round glass slides depict Japanese Buddhist and folk-religious scenes. Several portray the hells known as jigoku, including the weighing of souls, punishments administered by oni and King Enma judging the dead. Other slides show Buddhist apparitions to monks, a yūrei surrounded by spirit flames, a woman with a serpent and a thunder demon above a monk. The remaining scenes include moral tales with tiger-headed figures, a house collapsed by an earthquake and a flying red tengu mask above two fallen men.

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Really amazing detail in them all. I can't help but think that the meanings were lost on some people if they were really used to educate people on Japan.

Great post.