Rats and rice bales
1843
- Medium
- Ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 91.5 × 30 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-125279
Rice bales are traditional emblems of wealth in pictures of the popular god Daikoku, one of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune. Daikoku is not shown, but his association with this symbol of wealth, which he usually protects, may be one of many meanings embedded in this unusual picture. Perhaps it represents the fragility of accumulated wealth or possibly competition for survival among social groups o…
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 1843 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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