Vintage Hokkaido Bear with Wooden Board square mashiko plate O-yoroi refers to armour worn

O-yoroi refers to armour worn by the samurai class during feudal times

and in 1976 he received the Kyoto Ceramics Cooperative Award

He studied Economics at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo and after graduation started a family business making glass products

and also under master sculptor Yamamoto Kakuji (1915-2000) at the Kyoto City University of Arts

There are little wooden nails on the interior of the box suggesting that there was perhaps a little shelf area in there

Vintage Hokkaido Bear with Wooden Board square mashiko plate O-yoroi refers to armour worn*SHIPPING IS CURRENTLY SET FOR SAL SEA MAIL TO MOST DESTINATIONS, PLEASE SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS LISTING FOR FASTER OPTIONS. This listing is for a vintage higuma bear carving from the northern island of Hokkaido, and it was made about 50 60 years ago. The fur is wonderfully textured from where the tools have rigorously worked the surface, and its fashioned from a single piece of wood. This particular bear also comes with a wooden display board.