Fukurokuju
Japanese · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
The head is the identification: an elongated bald cranium of comic proportions, which in the Chinese iconography it derives from marks a man who has accumulated so much longevity that it has nowhere left to go. He and Jurōjin are so close that some lists replace one with Kichijōten to avoid the duplication, which the census notes.
Domains
- longevity
- wisdom
Relations
- companion: JurōjinOne of the Seven — and the one he is most often confused with, both being Chinese gods of long life with a bird or a beast and a scroll.Reference treatment of the Shichifukujin as a fixed group of seven. (secondary)
Sources
- Fukurokuju is one of the Seven Lucky Gods, of Chinese origin, god of wisdom and longevity, short with a very high forehead and accompanied by a crane.: Reference treatments of Fukurokuju and of the Shichifukujin. (secondary)