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Antique Japanese Bronze Okimono
Samurai
Playing Bamboo Flute
Signature: Signed, Circa: Taisho
H 5.5 in.(14cm), W 3.5 in.(9cm), D 4 in.(10cm)
Condition: excellent!

Samurai Okimono
Private Collector

This 19th century Japanese bronze okimono depicts the ethos of the historical relationship in Japan between the ethereal music of a the flute and the art of war. The word samurai translates as, “one who serves”. In the Edo period (1603-1867) many disenfranchised samurai warriors (ronin) who joined the ranks of itinerant priests known as komuso ("Priests of Emptiness and Nothingness"). Given that these samurai (now turned priests) were not allowed to carry weapons they crafted their shakuhachi flutes for dual purposes: beautiful music and tools of defense. In this statue a noble samurai regal in his highly detailed armor plays a sho flute. The sho flute is composed of seventeen thin bamboo reeds fixed into a circular lacquer wind chamber of cherry or pinewood. Look closely, at the face of this samurai: Nobility and strength, the countenance of strong disciplined male at peace with the inevitability of his death.

This bronze’s meticulous artistry depicts the ornate and uniquely flexible qualities of traditional samurai armor that was traditionally made from bamboo, cloth and metal. This statue communicates an implicit message of the deeply bittersweet: Beauty and death in juxtaposition. The samurai’s sword juts out from his side, sharp and ready even as he plays a tune of resonant beauty. The statue is dated December 17th on eleven years of Taisho. This powerfully rendered bronze is in excellent condition. (SD)

  
  
  
  
  
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