New · Made in Ishikawa, Japan · For a new home, a wedding, a baby
Kutani porcelain · white with painted flowers · 11 cm · paper box
Kutani Praying Cat, White with Flowers
A small white cat with its paws pressed together, covered in bright flowers.
$169 Free shipping to 32 countries
Order by December 8 to make sure it arrives before Christmas.
We ship to mainland China: free, tracked. Import duties, if any, are paid on delivery. Where we ship
Colour: White with Flowers · For a new home, a wedding, a baby
A gift for a new home · a wedding · a new baby
Leaves Fukuoka within one week by EMS, with tracking.
The story: Maneki-nekoWatch the 47-second film, or read it →What buyers say · ★★★★★ on Etsy
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Jessica · United States
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“Item was as described and in photos shown. Excellent quality. Seller very knowledgable and took the time to explain everything”
Tiang N. · Australia
- Made in Japan. Kutani ware, from Ishikawa prefecture.
- New, never used. Checked and packed by hand in Fukuoka.
- Returns within 14 days of delivery. Not right? Send it back as it came and we refund the full price, return postage included.
- Packed safely, sent by EMS within one week, fully insured, with tracking.
Duties, checkout and extras
- ★ 5.0 on Etsy · Star Seller. Read the reviews ↗
- Import tax. It depends on your country; if any is due, it is collected on delivery.
- US import duties. Already included in the price: nothing to pay at your door.
- Secure checkout by Stripe — cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay. No account needed.
- Two pieces, one parcel. Each extra piece in the same order is $15 off at checkout.
- Orders of $200 or more travel with a gift to keep: Japanese chopsticks with a rest in a paulownia box, or a Nara kaya-cloth handkerchief.
The story
White is the first colour. The earliest maneki-neko were white, and the cats left in their thousands at Gōtokuji in Tokyo are white too, brought back by people whose wishes came true. This one is white as well, but with its paws together. In Japanese it is oinori-neko, the praying cat.
The meaning
White is traditionally linked to good luck in general, the plain kind with no particular errand. It is the cat for a moment that has no single wish in it: a housewarming, a wedding, a new baby, a retirement. Give it when you want to wish someone well in every direction at once.
The craft
Here the white is the page, and the flowers are the writing. The porcelain is left pale and the blossoms are painted over it in bright colour, each one placed by hand. Where one cat has a cluster on the back, the next has them climbing the chest. That is the nature of hand-painting. Yours will be close to the photos, never a copy. Made in Ishikawa, in the Kutani tradition.
Living with it
About 11 cm tall, it sits comfortably in the middle of a mantel or a windowsill. It reads well from across a room.
How it comes
In a paper box, wrapped carefully and sent from Fukuoka. If a friend is starting something new, this is a quiet way to say so.
How it travels
Packed safely, insured in full
Every piece is packed by hand in Fukuoka inside a sturdy 3 mm corrugated carton, cushioned all round with air pillows so it cannot move. It travels with tracking all the way to your door: by EMS, insured for its full value, on orders of $100 or more, and by tracked airmail below that.
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