Ivory with engraved details, colored in black and red. A soldier, with grim expression, thrusts his sword into the pharynx of a dragon while holding the head of the dragon by its ear. Height 4.1cm, width 3cm. Sign.: Ikkosai, cf. MCI p. 226 no. 3, Meiji period-artist. Condition A/B. Age cracks.
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