白隠慧鶴 Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769)
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布袋 Hotei on a Boat
33.5 x 52.2 cm

 

Hotei on a Boat (2)

 

Hotei Watching Mouse Sumoo

 

Hotei with a Mallet

 

Hotei with mimikaki
Japanese traditionally clean the wax from the insides of their ears with a small bamboo hook or scoop, called a "mimi-kaki".

 

Hotei

 

Hotei

 

Hotei holding a Peach Seed 布袋
42 × 64.5 cm

 

Diptych: Hotei Playing Kickball
(detail) Ink on Paper, each 107.6 x 25.7 cm. Kikuan Collection

 

Suta-suta Bozu

 

「恵比寿・大黒・布袋」 The Three Gods of Happiness: Ebisu, Daikoku, and Hotei


「恵比寿・大黒・布袋」 Ebisu, Daikoku, and Hotei

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左:「弁財天・福禄寿・寿老人」 Benzaiten, Fukurokuju, and Jurōjin
中:「鍾馗」 Shōki
右:「恵比寿・大黒・布袋」 Ebisu, Daikoku, and Hotei

 

Hotei's Bag


Bag only, standing along with Hotei's staff, fan and edge of his robe as emblems of this Everyman figure.
To elucidate the latter picture, Hakuin wrote a haiku inside the bag:

While sleeping
a Shinto god? A Buddha?
– just a cloth bag