Menuki Oni Dressed as Monk with Drum and Scroll Japan, Edo period, mixed-metal with gilt highlights LS108 Inkstone Give it a new honing

Give it a new honing and you will be amazed at its razor sharpness

Two applied side ring handles add a traditional utilitarian form element

Width = 24" (Frame 32")

It measures 18" long (45

Menuki Oni Dressed as Monk with Drum and Scroll Japan, Edo period, mixed-metal with gilt highlights LS108 Inkstone Give it a new honingJapan, 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