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Description
17" (43 cm.) Presented in a dynamic pose, the nobleman (as indicated by his luxury costume) has a paper mache head with slightly-tinted gofun finish, glass eyes, dramatic expression with painted features, shadowed crown with inserted sidelocks and topknot, wooden hands and feet, and wearing hakama trousers with displayed extended length, unusual coat with wide shoulders and green lining and collars, posed on original base. Generally excellent. Taisho era, circa 1915.