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
- 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
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- Meiji era (1868 - 1912)
- rat
- Japan
- radish
- Daikoku
- Japanese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1975.29.5
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye34fbda7de-ba53-4728-b58b-7976bee06e33
