Height: 41cms
Date: Circa 1880
£POA
Product Code: KP0036
A Japanese Meiji Period (1868-1912) bronze vase with multimetal decoration of the immortal Tekkai Sennin and a goose flying across the moon.
Signed
Condition – Excellent
Tekkai Sennin
Tekkai Sennin is a character from Japanese legend, he is an immortal with the power to leave his body and trvel in spirit from. One day he left his body and asked his apprentice to burn it if his spirit did not return within seven days. The apprentice’s mother dies so he burned Tekkai’s body and returned home for her funeral. Left with no choice upon returning Tekkai had to inhabit the body of an old beggar found by the side of the road. He is often pictured with a gourd and sometimes his companion horse.
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