A large kurogaki (black persimmon) wood okimono of Hotei on his sackBy Mitani Goho, Aki Province, late 18th/early 19th centuryCarved in two parts, the chubby, smiling god holding a rolled hand scroll aloft with one hand and a large fan with the other, seated on his large sack of treasure, the neck of which is tied at the front, signed on the top of the sack Koryo no ju Goho (Goho, resident in Koryo). 38.8cm (15¼in).注脚黒柿彫置物　袋に座る布袋　銘 「広陵住五鳳」　18世紀後期/19世紀前期Published:Rokusho 20, p.87, no.129.Earle, Huthart, p.176, no.152.