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Visual depiction of Daikokuten

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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster

Daikokuten

Japanese god of abundance and fortune


a smiling stout figure sitting on bales of rice with a magic mallet, mice at his feet guarding the grain

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
trickster

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.