#162

Miniature Carved Wooden Musha-Ningyo with Moustache, in Well-Detailed Armament
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Description
8 1/2" (22 cm.) Carved wooden head with dowel neck attachment, gofun finish, glass eyes, painted details, painted moustache, black silk fiber hair with tied-down topknot, wooden hands with painted glove detail, painted black boots, and wearing well-detailed paper mache armor over red silk jacket, ivory silk trousers, black paper mache hat with lacquer finish, and carrying sword and wooden baton with fringed streamers, posed on original wooden stand. Excellent condition, especially fresh and with fine painting for such a diminutive figure. Taisho era, early 1900s.