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17" (43 cm.) Posed seated, with carved wooden head, fine gofun finish, painted facial features with outlined eyes in deeply set sockets, closed mouth with stern expression, shaved pate with black silk fiber hair in long sidelocks and backlocks, carved wooden hands holding a battle whisk and battle fan (gumbai), painted black wooden boot tips, He is wearing a blue silk brocade kimono with attached trousers, lacquered paper armor having dragon crest on his chest and rare black velvet accents, Kabuto helmet with dragon crest, and carries a sword and arrows. Generally excellent. Edo period, early 1800s. Considered by most to be the most important figure of the annual Boy's Day display, Yoshitsune was a brilliant and valiant leader forced into exile by his brother, then dying at the age of only thirty-three.