Japanese Carved Okimono Figure with Wood Robe with Flowers: Male

The robe is wood, the face and hands are bone, and the mon crests are scattered like confetti.

This carved okimono figure with wood robe with flowers, male, comes from Japan and dates to the Edo Period (1615 – 1868 CE). It is carved bone. Okimono are small decorative sculptures made purely for display, and Japanese carvers often combined materials to set off faces and hands against richly worked garments. The man stands upright in a long, deep red-brown robe inlaid with bone roundels and squares carved with flowers and patterns. He holds a staff in one hand and a folded fan in the other. It is 17 inches high.

Dressed for an occasion, and in no hurry to leave it.