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hanging scroll, painting   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Painted by:Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳)
Title
hanging scroll, painting
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English: Painting, hanging scroll. Hotei, dressed in Chinese Buddhist monk's robe, carrying Chinese fan and linen bag, looking at his reflection on water. Ink on paper. Signed and sealed.



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Depicted people Representation of:Budai 布袋
Date 1848-1854 (c.)
Medium paper
Dimensions Height:90.50 centimetres Width:27 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1913,0501,0.359
Notes

Clark 1992

Hotei, numbered as one of the Seven Gods of Good Luck ('shichifukujin') in the Edo period, is generally portrayed as a laughing, pot-bellied Chinese monk, carrying a staff, Chinese fan and linen bag (from which he derives his name), in which he stows lucky treasures. Paintings of the Gods of Good Luck were always hung at the New Year holiday, and prints of them arriving in a lucky treasure ship were placed under the pillow at night to ensure good fortune during the coming year.

Hotei was a common subject for Zen ink painters during the Muromachi period and he is variously shown in carefree attitudes riding an ox, gazing at the moon, fording a river, and so on, but this composition of him gazing at his reflection in a stream seems to be unusual. Perhaps the idea was simply to poke fun at how difficult it must have been to see his reflection over such an enormous belly.

The technique is a loose version of the Kano ink style (ultimately derived from Zen monk painters) habitually adopted by artists of all schools for paintings of the Lucky Gods.

Literature: Robinson, Basil, 'Kuniyoshi'. London, HMSO, 1961, no. 97.

'(Hizo) Ukiyo-e taikan' ('Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections'), ed. Narazaki Muneshige. Vol. 1, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1987, BW no. 55.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1913-0501-0-359
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