{"product_id":"red-fan-japanese-lucky-cat-fukusen","title":"Red Fan Japanese Lucky Cat 'Fukusen'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eCalico lucky cat holding a red fan, with a treasure ship painted on the body\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA red fan held high, and a ship on the belly. This lucky cat is white glazed ceramic with a black patch on one ear, one paw raised holding a red fan with gold characters, the other paw at the belly holding a small gold mallet, and its round body painted with the treasure ship of the seven gods sailing on blue clouds, with a red collar and brass bells.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the cat for a person who wants the whole set of symbols, ship, mallet and fan, on one animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Fukusen, is the ship of fortune, the treasure ship on the belly, and the cat is named for its cargo.\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 ship is the detail: painted in orange and green on a blue cloud ground, with its sail and its prow, sailing across the belly under the mallet, and it is the ship that brings the seven lucky gods on New Year's night. The fan in the raised paw is red with gold characters and a gold rib.\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 a red fan up. From close the fan shows its characters, the belly its ship, and the paw its mallet. It is the cat for New Year and a person who likes a story on a figure.\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":59207958364508,"sku":"14:200006155#4.5 inch E","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/red-fan-japanese-lucky-cat-fukusen-1.jpg?v=1790585998","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/red-fan-japanese-lucky-cat-fukusen","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}