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Religion and Health


Many of the prints in the collection reflect the belief in deities as causative agents of disease: both smallpox and measles "gods" are shown again and again as forces to be appeased, if not forcibly repelled. A second, related category of prints reflects the inverse of this idea, by showing Shinto or Buddhist deities who lead or sanction the fight against disease.

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