Fukurokuju

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NOTE: All Giclee prints on PAPER are printed and cut to exact size. If you would like extra paper around your print please let us know. We can add an extra 1/4" or 1/2" of paper on all sides upon request. This selection does not apply for the stretched canvas or framed products.

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Fukurokuju appears as a stooped, long-headed figure with a staff beneath dense inscription. The deity’s association with wisdom and long life gives the unusual bodily form a recognizable identity. Katsukawa Shunshō’s restrained painted figure shares the scroll with a substantial area of writing, bringing visual and written expression into a single encounter.

The hanging scroll combines Shunshō’s ink-and-color painting on paper with an inscription by Tegara no Okamochi. The inscription was added in 1798, after Shunshō’s lifetime, giving the earlier painting a further layer of expression through the calligrapher’s written contribution. Image and later writing form a shared encounter across time, bringing the deity’s associations with longevity into a work whose own history includes more than one creative contribution.