Japanese Embroidered Sukajan 'Hanamachi' Resin lantern Ama-no-Jaku is a trickster figure

Ama-no-Jaku is a trickster figure from Japanese folklore — a mischievous spirit said to drag out people's worst impulses and hold them up for all to see

neon-lit streets

The slight tilt of the head gives the wolf a watchful

The detail makes it: the pink of the chopsticks

The violet-navy ground reads as a sophisticated alternative to plain black

Japanese Embroidered Sukajan 'Hanamachi' Resin lantern Ama-no-Jaku is a trickster figureThe sukajan that carries a whole festival on its back Hanamachi means 'flower town', the old entertainment quarters of Japan, and this sukajan conjures that world. The back is embroidered with figures and glowing lanterns among drifting cherry blossom, 'Japan' scripted in gold above a small, lively scene rather than a single beast, stitched in rich raised thread. The embroidery is dense and detailed, worked in real relief so the lanterns, blossom and