Fortune-Ascending Koi Kakejiku Hanging Scroll MATERIAL_Pottery Great for New Year's Day

Great for New Year's Day

this refined and lightweight side plate carries an elegant yet celebratory presence

rendered with meticulous brushwork

featuring a kadomatsu and kagami mochi motif

Fortune-Ascending Koi Kakejiku Hanging Scroll MATERIAL_Pottery Great for New Year's DayThis hanging scroll captures the dramatic ascent of two powerful carp leaping up a waterfall, an enduring image of ambition and good fortune. In Japanese culture, the carps determined journey upstream symbolizes perseverance and triumph over adversity. Rooted in Chinese legend, this motif carries deeper resonance: the tale of the carp that conquers the waterfall and transforms into a dragon. As a creature that commands water and ascends from earth to