Menuki Oni Dressed as Monk with Drum and Scroll Japan, Edo period, mixed-metal with gilt highlights LS108 Box With exception to some blemishes

With exception to some blemishes and oxidation it has a nice aged patina

Vintage Japanese silk Haori coat in purple with colorful bursts of flower designs

Depth = 16

There is a maker's mark on the bottom

Menuki Oni Dressed as Monk with Drum and Scroll Japan, Edo period, mixed-metal with gilt highlights LS108 Box With exception to some blemishesJapan, Edo period (18th19th century) This highly unusual menuki presents an oni, or demon, costumed in the garb of a humble traveling monk. Rather than appearing menacing, the oni wears an almost comical expression, his rounded face and sharp teeth softened by the parody of religious attire. Across his chest is strapped a circular drum, picked out in brilliant gilt, while in one hand he holds a scroll engraved with tiny characters. The figures robe is