Netsuke: Daikoku and Hotei as wrestlers

Place of OriginJapan

Dateearly 19th century

DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm)

Mediumboxwood

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of H. A. Fee

Object number

1950.135

Not on View

DescriptionTwo wrestlers, one held on shoulders of the other; Daikoku and Hotei, two of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune.

Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Japanese Treasures: The Art of Netsuke Carving in the Toledo Museum of Art, 2000, p. 25, repr. (col.) (author Carolyn M. Putney).

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