Object Details
Artist
Kawanabe Kyosai 河鍋暁斎 (1831-1889)
Label
Lively sketches by the nineteenth-century artist Kawanabe Kyosai reveal the variety of traditional Chinese and Japanese legends that were popular in the Meiji era, when Japan was rapidly modernizing along Western technological models. Daikoku, a popular Chinese and Japanese deity associated with wealth, is shown with his bag and his messenger, the rat. Here his attendants busily pull a large white radish (daikon) that serves as a mikoshi, a movable shrine used in Shinto religious ceremonies to transport the spirit of a deity.
See also F1975.29.8 and F1975.29.12.
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History
Tales and Legends in Japanese Art (June 21, 2003 to January 4, 2004)
Japanese Drawings (March 16, 1984 to July 22, 1985)
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Date
1831-1912
Period
Meiji era
Accession Number
F1975.29.5
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Album
Medium
Ink and color on paper
Dimensions
H x W: 26.7 x 38.8 cm (10 1/2 x 15 1/4 in)
Origin
Japan
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Data Source
National Museum of Asian Art
Topic
Meiji era (1868 - 1912)
rat
Japan
radish
Daikoku
Japanese Art
Link to Original Record
Record ID
fsg_F1975.29.5