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