A print depicting prosperous merchants worshipping the god of wealth during the tenth month — the time of the Ebisu festival when merchant guilds performed elaborate rituals of commerce-worship, offering prayers and symbolic goods to the gods of fortune. Chikanobu's documentation of commercial religious practice captures the intersection of mercantile culture and religious observance that characterized the prosperous commercial districts of Edo, where the worship of wealth and the prosperity it signified were conducted with genuine ceremonial seriousness.
Meiji period, dated October 10, 1896
Woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Kamakura Daibutsu
1930
Color woodblock print
1950
Color woodblock print
大仏
Woodblock print
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
Annual Edo Customs: Tenth Month, Prosperous Merchants Worship the God of Wealth was created by Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延).
Annual Edo Customs: Tenth Month, Prosperous Merchants Worship the God of Wealth depicts religious, seascapes, and market scenes, set at Tokyo.