A HACHI-MOKKOGATA SHIBUICHI HARI-ISHIMEJI TSUBA decorated in gilt, copper and shibuichi takazogan with a plasterer, about to repair a dilapidated wall, dropping his trowel and falling back in terror as Daruma, his meditation disturbed, appears at an opening and, by pulling his eyes down and pushing his nose up, turns himself into a bakemono, on the reverse his Buddhist whisk, signed Tomomasa zo, Sodegaura no hen, with a kinzogan seal, Tomomasa, shaped as a koro on a tall tripod, late 19th Century

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A HACHI-MOKKOGATA SHIBUICHI HARI-ISHIMEJI TSUBA decorated in gilt, copper and shibuichi takazogan with a plasterer, about to repair a dilapidated wall, dropping his trowel and falling back in terror as Daruma, his meditation disturbed, appears at an opening and, by pulling his eyes down and pushing his nose up, turns himself into a bakemono, on the reverse his Buddhist whisk, signed Tomomasa zo, Sodegaura no hen, with a kinzogan seal, Tomomasa, shaped as a koro on a tall tripod, late 19th Century
8.2cm.

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