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A Pottery Figure of the Gamma Sennin and Frog – Edo browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Chinese:Pottery: Pre 1900: item # 788287 Please refer to our stock # ICHI 2448 when inquiring.
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An unusual pottery figure of a seated merrily smiling Gama Sennin. His always present companion, the toad, rests on his right shoulder and he holds a round ball like object in his left hand. The robes are done in a shiny glaze medium dark green color – as is a patch on the toad - the rest of the piece is not glazed. The figure measures 5 ¼” wide by 6 ¼” high by 3” deep and is in excellent condition. There is an impressed signature on the base which we have not yet had translated. We date it from the late Edo to early Meiji period, circa 1840-1875. The Japanese term sennin is a loanword from Chinese "immortal person", known also as xian "immortal; transcendent; genie; mage; jdinn; sage; hermit" in Daoism. Gamma Sennin is also one of the Taoist immortals of good fortune and immortality. Sennin is a common Japanese character name. The Japanese legend of Gama Sennin "Toad Immortal") is based upon the Chinese Liu Hai, a fabled 10th-century alchemist who learned the secret of immortality from the Chan Chu ("Three-legged Money Toad"). |
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