Dancers as Parody of Ebisu and Daikoku

Data

Dancers as Parody of Ebisu and Daikoku
Print   (Part of the set: Taisho era subscription prints)

Toyokuni

1910s

00024-007
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

After digging around for a while, we still don't know what where this adaptation was taken from. The woman on the left is holding the "mallet of fortune", suggesting that she represents Daikokuten (大黒天), the god of great darkness or blackness and one of the Seven Lucky Gods. The woman on the right carries a fan with an image of a carp on it, a classic image of Ebisu (恵比須), the Japanese god of fishermen and luck and another of the Seven Lucky Gods.

If you have any ideas about the origin of this print, let us know!

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