Japanese Hakata ningyō depicting a female warrior, traditionally described in the earlier Yamazakura catalogue as an onna-musha or onna-bugeisha. The painted clay figure presents the subject in historical costume and belongs to the established Hakata doll tradition.
Female warriors form part of Japanese historical and literary tradition, but the identity of the individual represented by this figure is not established from the present catalogue information. The earlier listing associated the subject generally with figures such as Tomoe Gozen; this should not be taken as an identification of this particular ningyō.
No maker or precise date is asserted here without a documented signature, box inscription or other supporting evidence.
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