A wood okimono of HoteiBy Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793Reclining with an arm resting on his large sack, his chest and belly exposed as he wears an amiable expression, carved using yosegi-zukuri (multiple-block construction), decorated with pigments, his eyes secured from inside using gyokugan (crystal eyes), signed underneath Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa Seiyodo Shi Tomiharu kyonen rokujuissai shite kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei mizunoto-ushi no toshi nari (carved at the age of sixty-one by the Eno River in Iwami Province by Seiyodo Shi[mizu] Tomiharu in spring of the fifth, mizunoto-ushi, year of Kansei [1793]), with a large wood stand. Hotei: 63cm x 39cm x 33.5cm (24¾in x 15 3/8in x 13¼in); the wood stand: 68.2cm x 46cm x 6.2cm (26 7/8in x 18 1/8in x 2½in). (2).注脚木彫置物　布袋　 銘 「石見州可愛河青陽堂清富春享年六十一歳而彫刻之于時寛政癸丑之年也」　1793年Published:Rokusho 20, p.86, no.128.Earle, Huthart, pp.19-21, no.1.