The pillow shell Makuragai (title on object) A comparison of Genroku poems and shells (series title) Genroku kasen kaiawase (series title on object), A still life with a wooden pillow with softer material on top. In the opened drawer a cup of sand, used to burn incense. Under the wooden cushion a print with the image of the Ship full of Treasures, with which the seven lucky gods on New Year's Day sail into the harbor. In the foreground a round box. Placing an image of the Ship full of Treasures under the pillow at the start of the new year would create a dream about the lucky symbols: Mount Fuji, a falcon and aubergines, the most fortunate dream possible. These lucky symbols are also hidden in the surimono itself: the pillow depicts the Fuji, with the white pillow as a snowy top, Fuji, a falcon and two aubergines are depicted on the label of the round box, which contains preserved pieces of aubegines. With two poems, pillow, Katsushika Hokusai (mentioned on object), Japan, 1821, paper, colour woodcut, h 206 mm × w 181 mm
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