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Ornamental Hair Sticks
Japan
19th century
A set of three black-lacquered wooden hair sticks comprising a kogai and two kogai-type ichidome (wagedome).
Two of these hair sticks are decorated with birds flying over grasses and with a mountain-and-boat scene with seabirds overhead, each with inlaid coral beads. A single ichidome is inlaid with silver studs.
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