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10" (25 cm.) Each having carved wooden head with gofun finish, inset glass eyes, and painted features, with wooden hands and feet, and mounted on original wooden chip-carved stands. Including the young lord with whitened complexion, black silk fiber hair in topknot fashion with extended backlocks, wearing plum silk crepe (chirimen) jacket with five-petal cherry blossom crests indicating his noble status, embroidered sleeve panels, and brocade silk trousers, carrying sword. And attendant with pigmented complexion, bald pate with topknot and sidelocks, wearing black silk kimono with gold thread diamond-shaped embroidery on sleeves and back, silk obi, unusual painted socks and sandals, and carrying martial arts equipment. Very good, finish rubbed lending an aged patina. Taisho era. 1920s.