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Description
19" (48 cm.) Each has carved wooden head with gofun finish and is posed on a matching wooden platform with sea-rock outcroppings and palace balustrades, designed to be displayed as a pair. Including Empress Jingu with highly-defined "sky-brows" (okimayu) indicating her imperial lineage, wearing gilt-lacquered paper armor with richly-embroidered chrysanthemum design on her silk crepe sleeves, and brocade outer jacket with dragon and cloud motif. And Takenouchi no Sukune, her faithful minister, having wizened features, white silk fiber hair, wearing dragon-decorated armor, two swords, arrows, and carrying a tray of tide-shift gems to Jingu. Especially well-preserved excellent condition. Meiji era, late 1800s. An unusual theatrical presentation of Empress Jingu, enacting the beloved sea-shift Takeda drama, and especially rare to find the two matching figures.