🙏🍀'THE SEVEN GODS OF FORTUNE' (七福神)🪙💸

O New Year's god
this year too
send help!
とし神やことしも御世話下さるる
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶).
Trans. David G. Lanoue.

As the year draws to a close, images of seven cheerful figures (often riding a treasure laden boat) begin to appear all over Japan.

The Shichifukujin journey in the Takarabune (宝船 'Treasure Ship') to the human realm for the first three days of New Year.

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