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Izanami and Izanagi Create the First Japanese Isles, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, MFA Boston)

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The Wikimedia Commons file record for Kobayashi Eitaku's Meiji-era painting, held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, describing the two deities stirring the primordial waters with the sacred spear Ame-no-Nuboko to form the Japanese islands.

Facts
Citation
Publisher
Wikimedia Commons, crediting the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
URL
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Izanami_and_Izanagi_create_the_1st_Japanese_isles,_Kobayashi_Eitaku_MFA_1880s.jpg
Source Type
reference-database
Assessment
Reliability Tier
2
Tier two: a public domain media file record crediting the holding museum directly, used here to independently corroborate the painting's subject, date and institutional custody.
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Boston, Cities

This source names Boston directly: "held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, describing the two deities stirring the primordial waters with the sacred spear Ame-no-Nuboko to form the Japanese islands."

Source Izanami and Izanagi Create the First Japanese Isles, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, MFA Boston)
Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)

This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sacred Art & Iconography, 10 claims: 6 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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