Figure of a samurai. 25 cm.

Description

Reproduction of a decorative figure of a Japanese samurai, made of reconstituted marble (marble powder agglutinated with chronolite) and finely polished. Patinated with natural earths that give it the finish of a sculpture embellished by the passage of time. Alabaster base.

Height: 25 cm.

The samurai sculpture reproduced here is made with great attention to detail and expresses great serenity.

The samurai were a Japanese military elite made up of clans of warrior landowners. During the Sengoku period (15th-17th century), a period of great instability, the power of the emperor and the shogun (a kind of prime minister) was greatly weakened and they fell into a period of feudal civil wars between different clans. After the restoration of the power of the shogunate, the samurai began to decline until their complete disappearance in the Meiji Era (19th century). They were characterised by a stoic attitude to death and the following of some of the precepts of Bushido, the way of the warrior.