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[Fukurokuju, the god of wisdom, wealth, long life, and happiness, one of the seven lucky gods, standing, facing left] – Antique Print

[Fukurokuju, the god of wisdom, wealth, long life, and happiness, one of the seven lucky gods, standing, facing left], [between 1830 and 1850] — historic drawing
[Fukurokuju, the god of wisdom, wealth, long life, and happiness, one of the seven lucky gods, standing, facing left], [between 1830 and 1850]. Historic drawing from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Fukurokuju, the god of wisdom, wealth, long life, and happiness, one of the seven lucky gods, standing, facing left], a historic drawing rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Fukurokuju, the god of wisdom, wealth, long life, and happiness, one of the seven lucky gods, standing, facing left]

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Fukurokuju is one of the seven gods of good fortune in Japanese tradition, and this drawing shows him standing and turned to the left, with the long-headed, elderly figure his iconography calls for. The sheet is a small ink-and-color wash on thin handmade paper, one of a group of studies once bound together and loosely associated with the Hokusai school. Such sketchbook pages were often used by artists to work out figures and poses before they reached finished prints or paintings, so this sheet offers a glimpse of the drawing practice behind the more polished images of the period.

Created / published[between 1830 and 1850]
Medium1 drawing on thin handmade paper : ink wash, color ; 26.7 x 19 cm (sheet), 28.3 x 22 cm (mount)
Genreno. 98
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Attributed to a group of drawings, formerly bound, referred to as the Hokusai School sketchbook." Many of the drawings have a small tab of similar paper attached at a later date and numbered in pencil. DLC Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ...
SubjectsBuddhist gods--Japanese--1830-1850.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,626 × 4,487 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221867

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