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Help a brother out Japanese enthusiasts.

I have some original ivory artistic sculptures of I believe to be a samurai, a monk, and some kind of oni/monk?. Anyways, you guys will be a huge help to me figuing these out.

These are 60+ year old pieces, I imagine possibly much older, and they could even be Chinese, but I think they're Japanese. Hopefully I'm not wrong!

Here's the first one, I'll include the signature next, and that's what I need help understanding the most!

>> No.25596197
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>>25596189
here's the signature! Excuse the gross nails!

>> No.25596220

>>25596197
I have other pictures but I'm not entirely sure if I should continue posting, so I'll wait for some input if anyone is interested! Thanks for checking!

>> No.25597928

These statues are toirehimegami-sama it is the guardian of those at rest. They keep away famous Japanese demon the toire no omyoji.

Very rare I suggest contacting a Japanese museum.

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>>25597928
Awesome, thanks for the response!
I'll post a few more for interest and if anyone could tell me the other signatures I have.

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>>25598191

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>>25598207
>toirehimegami-sama

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>>25598216
I don't know why that's there, I was looking that up.

here's the signature to this piece!

So I got 3 different? signatures I believe. If anyone could translate them I'd really appreciate it!

>> No.25598357

>>25598236
This one says “the pleasure of internal release.”

Maybe a reference to the zen Buddhist cycle of reincarnation.

>> No.25598379

>>25596189
One thing I would do would be to check out local and international laws regarding ivory and the ivory trade. A friend of mine took a family heirloom to a museum after calling and inquiring about it (a mallet made out of ivory) and it was promptly seized and he did not get it back due a patchwork of laws regarding ivory (and this thing had been in his family since the 1800s).

>> No.25598393

>>25598357
Ah there not even signatures? Interesting, so there messages.

Any idea who they could possibly belong to?

>> No.25608902

Bump!

>> No.25611481

You sure it's not actually a civil war liquor bottle?

>>25598357
wwwwwwwww

>> No.25611640

>>25611481
No?

>> No.25611927

Look, this isn't really related to the board, please try /wsr/ instead.

>> No.25612251

>>25611927
Roger, let it die, was really helpful to get some translations though.

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>>25598357
I'm replying and you know exactly why I'm replying.

>> No.25638120

>>25598236
Cool stuff

>> No.25639734

>>25598357
Excellent analysis professor.

>> No.25649981

>>25598357
In this case, I believe the release to be in a passive way, as in "[something] is being release inside the self".
As such, it seems closer to the taoist idea of attaining immortality through training.

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