Antique Japanese Okimono carved wooden figure Tenjin

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Antique Japanese Okimono carved wooden figure Tenjin

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Antique Japanese Okimono carved wooden figure Tenjin

This 8" high wooden figure of the sitting Tenjin was carved during the Edo period, the mid 19th century (1850). Tenjin is the Japanese "god" name name given to the Japanese statesman and scholar, Sugawarea Michizane, the 9th century poet and writer of Chinese prose and verse.

Possibly carved from cryptomera wood and darkened with age, this carved figure has both a simplicity and elegance which are, for me, the major characteristics of Japanese asthetics.