{"product_id":"black-maneki-neko-kuroneko","title":"Black Maneki Neko 'Kuroneko'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBlack lucky cat with both paws raised, brushed with a wish against bad luck\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack, with gold writing, for keeping things away. This lucky cat is glazed ceramic in a glossy black with a white face, both forepaws raised, a gold pattern on the ears, and a wish to ward off ill fortune and open the way brushed in gold characters down the body, with a red cord collar and a brass bell at each paw. It is the one cat of the six single colours that is for protection rather than gain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack is for keeping bad luck out, and this is the cat for a front door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Kuroneko, is the black cat, which in Japan is lucky, and it is that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cat is glazed ceramic, cast hollow, painted and fired, with the collar a real red cord and the bells real brass, and a slot at the back for coins with a stopper underneath, so it is a money box as well as a figure. It sits on a red brocade cushion, as photographed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePut it where a shop puts it: by the door, on the counter, facing the room, with the raised paw towards the people coming in. In a house that is the hall table, the kitchen shelf or the desk. The right paw raised is for money and the left for people; both raised is for both, and most of the cats here are greedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gloss is the detail: the black is fired to a deep shine, so the gold characters and the white face sit on it like lacquer work, and there is a small daruma painted beside the writing. The ears carry the same gold brocade as the blue cat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe beckoning cat began in Edo, with a temple cat that waved a lord in from a storm, and it has sat at shop doors ever since; the raised paw is the Japanese come-here, palm down, which a Westerner reads as a wave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDust with a soft cloth; wipe with a damp one if it needs it. It is ceramic and it breaks, so keep it off the edge of the shelf. The cushion can be sponged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a room it is a black cat with a white face. From close the characters show their gold, the daruma its red, and the glaze its shine. It is the cat for a hall table and a person who wants the door watched.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 11 by 11 cm, the size of a fist, and it sits on its cushion at the same scale as every cat in the collection, so the pages compare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YONAKU","offers":[{"title":"11 x 11 cm","offer_id":59207954530652,"sku":"14:351264#4.5 inch J","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/black-maneki-neko-kuroneko-1.jpg?v=1790586026","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/black-maneki-neko-kuroneko","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}