HAKUIN EKAKU (1686-1769)
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th centuryFukurokuju or Jurojin (one of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune); a kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink and on paper in silk mounts, depicting the deity with characteristic tall cranium, long whiskers and benign smile, beneath an inscription, with two artist's seals at right and a dharmic succession seal at top left; with a wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside Hakuin Zenshi shinseki, Fukurokuju no zu (Painting of Fukurokuju, a genuine work by Zen priest Hakuin) and singed and sealed inside by the economist and Zen scholar Awakawa Koichi (1902-1977). Overall: 169cm x 36cm (66?in x 14 1/8in); image: 95cm x 24.2cm (37 3/8in x 9 9/16in). (2).