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Japan: Hikifuda advertising poster featuring the Shinto god Ebisu catching a fish. Late Meiji (1868-1912), c. 1900

Japan: <i>Hikifuda</i> advertising poster featuring the Shinto god Ebisu catching a fish. Late Meiji (1868-1912), c. 1900

Ebisu, also transliterated Yebisu, is the Japanese god of fishermen and luck. He is one of the Seven Gods of Fortune or Shichifukujin, and the only one of the seven to originate purely from Japan without any Hindu or Chinese influence.