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Description
11" (28 cm.) overall h. seated, 9"l. Carved wooden head with dowel neck attachment, pigmented gofun finish, inset glass eyes, fierce expression, thick black silk fiber brows, moustache, hair and elongated very full beard, wooden hands and feet. He is wearing a red silk kimono beneath lacquer paper chest armor, leg guards, paper lacquer helmet, painted boots and gloves, and is posed seated on sculpted horse having black silk crepre hide and lacquered paper mache saddle with stiffened brocade saddle blanket and decorative silk fringe, and posed on original wooden base. With original box having original store label on interior. Excellent condition. Late Meiji era, early 1900s.