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16" (41 cm.) Carved wooden head, hands, and lower legs and feet, gofun finish on head and hands with fine sheen, posed with head sharply to the side and body in extreme dramatically-twisted pose, having the right leg askance with toe lifted. The face is painted in high drama with special attention to the curled brows and brown eye shadow, and with downcast lips, painted teeth, deeply-set fierce-looking eyes, and shadowed chin, He has silk fiber hair with extended sidelocks and topknot, and is richly costumed in silk and brocade with unusual waterwheel embroidery on the sleeves, and luxury black velvet (birodo) accents, and his legs are painted to simulate striped stockings, with blue painted shoes and uplifted right toe. He stands upon original base with embroidered fabric insert. Generally excellent, some typical frailty to velvet. Edo period, 1800s.