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Description
12" (30 cm.) Carved wooden head with gofun finish, deeply-defined eye sockets, painted features, "sky-brows", mouth painted open with teeth, black silk fiber hair, gofun finished carved wooden hands and feet with especially expressive fingers, wearing silk crepe inner kimono with embroidered chrysanthemum and scrolled foliage patterns, lavishly embroidered red silk crepe outer kimono arranged with sleeves thrown back for ease of movement, silk and lacquered paper armor, silk brocade head band, and carrying a bamboo fishing pole and long sword with faux-fur scabbard. Posed on (later era) black lacquer wooden stand. Generally excellent, Edo period, circa 1850.