Japanese Buddhist Altar Fitting Bronze Flower Vase Vtg Hanatate Brown BA326 Lacquer bowl Vtg Japanese Fukuzuke Good Luck

Vtg Japanese Fukuzuke Good Luck Man Figurine

Kanji meaning: Sake shop name

Rusting on iron handle

Japanese clay doll cat figurine or ornament

A common way of playing is Koi-Koi

Japanese Buddhist Altar Fitting Bronze Flower Vase Vtg Hanatate Brown BA326 Lacquer bowl Vtg Japanese Fukuzuke Good LuckJapanese Buddhist Altar Fitting Flower Vase This is a bronze flower vase, hanatate, for Buddhist altars. It is common to offer a range of seasonal and symbolic flowers in front of a Buddhist altar. It is also a vessel for Sakaki leaves or Shashagi leaves in Shinto. The meaning of offering sakaki tree leaves is that the gods living in the sakaki tree will protect the grave and the soul. This particular vase has a gold crane shaped Nichiren Shoshu sect