Odawara: Dharma Market
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
The Dharma Market at Odawara — the annual New Year fair where Daruma dolls (the round, weighted figures that right themselves when knocked over, representing the Buddhist patriarch Bodhidharma) were sold as good-luck charms for the coming year — appears here as a festival crowd scene. The Daruma market gave Odawara's commercial life a festive dimension at the year's start, the bright red figures filling the stalls in a display that Sekino's color woodblock captures with evident enjoyment.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Odawara: Dharma Market was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Odawara: Dharma Market depicts religious and market scenes.