A Superb Japanese Edo Carved Suteki Samurai Walking Stick

With a beautifully executed carved head of a samurai with beard and moustache. Samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century to their abolition in 1876.

Picture in the gallery of Saigo Takamori, known historically as the last samurai, walking with his cane and with his dog

Saigo Takamori (1828-1877), popularly known as the 'Last Samurai,' led rebel forces against the Imperial regime during the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877. Leading up to and through the early periods of the Meiji Restoration, Takamori remained loyal to the pro-modernization forces. He was a commander in the Second Choshu Expedition in 1866, attempting to subdue a rebellious group of samurai who were resisting efforts at opening trade and modernize the military, and then again fought in the Boshin War of 1868-1869, leading imperialist forces of the new Meiji Regime against a group opposed to the Restoration.

The last picture in the gallery is a woodblock print of a samurai in his walking out attire, also with his walking cane, but depicted as an emperor penguin!

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