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7" (18 cm.) Standing upon a black lacquered wooden base is the Empress Jingu with her minister Takenouchi and her son Ojin, each with carved wooden head with gofun finish and painted features, she with black silk fiber hair and "sky-brows", and he with pigmented complexion and white silk fiber hair and beard. They wear stiffened silk brocade costumes, she with gold lacquer cap and having a sheath of arrows, and he posed seated, holding baby Ojin in his arms, all posed on wooden lacquered black base. Generally excellent. Meiji era, early 1900s.