A rare and amusing boxwood netsuke of Daikoku and Ebisu. Late 18th/early 19th century - image-1

Lot 273 Dα

A rare and amusing boxwood netsuke of Daikoku and Ebisu. Late 18th/early 19th century

Auktion 1136 - Übersicht Köln
07.06.2019, 14:00 - Japanische Kunst (Rüstungen, Schwerter, Netsuke, Inro, Sagemono)
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A rare and amusing boxwood netsuke of Daikoku and Ebisu. Late 18th/early 19th century

Daikoku, looking like a peasant but identifiable by his headdress and mallet, carries on his back a tiny figure of Ebisu with a bamboo branch with good luck charms including a notebook with the character reading chô (notebook) in allusion to the commonly written daifukuchô.
Height 8.5 cm

The subject refers to the Toka Ebisu matsuri (Tenth-day Ebisu festival) held held every year in Osaka and the Kansai region from the 9th to the 11th of January. It is part of the New Year's celebration of visiting a shrine. Visitors buy braches of bamboo (fuku saza) and attach charms to it.

Provenienz

Sotheby’s, London, 10.11.2005, lot 1260
Kolodotschko Collection