{"product_id":"great-fortune-plaque-lucky-cat-daikichi","title":"Great Fortune Plaque Lucky Cat 'Daikichi'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhite lucky cat with a coin headdress, a gold ingot and a red fan\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoins on springs above its head, and an ingot in its paw. This lucky cat is white glazed ceramic with a small red cap on the crown from which two old gold coins rise on wires and wobble, one paw raised with two characters painted on it, the other paw holding a gold ingot, and a red fan with gold characters painted on the body, with a red collar and a brass bell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the cat for a till, and the coins on their wires are what nod at the customers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Daikichi, is the great fortune, the best result on a shrine's paper slip, and the cat has it.\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 coins are the detail: two old square-holed coins in gold on fine wires that spring from the cap and nod when the shelf is touched, so the cat moves without a motor. The ingot in the paw is the boat-shaped gold of the old currency, and the fan on the body carries a wish in gold.\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 white cat with gold above its head. From close the gold is two coins on wires, the paw shows its ingot, and the fan its characters. It is the cat for a shop counter and a person who wants the luck to nod.\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":59207957643612,"sku":"14:350686#6 inch G","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/great-fortune-plaque-lucky-cat-daikichi-1.jpg?v=1790586007","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/great-fortune-plaque-lucky-cat-daikichi","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}