Iron Nio Somen. By Yoshii, Edo period, 19th centuryForged in one piece in the form of a Nio temple g
Iron Nio Somen. By Yoshii, Edo period, 19th centuryForged in one piece in the form of a Nio temple guardian bearing a fierce expression, the surface with traces of black lacquer and pierced with small holes for a mustache and chin tuft (now missing), signed Yoshii; fitted with a three-lame yodarekake and a zukin hoodWith a gold-lacquer storage box decorated with birds and peonies in gold hiramakie on a nashiji ground. -- source link
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