A Japanese black and gold lacquer wood and ivory model of a standing man wearing a hankerchief on his head, a block of wood in each hand, his robes decorated in hiramakie, scattered nashiji, red lacquer and aogai with roundels containing flowerheads, cell pattern and other motifs, standing on a rounded rectangular rockwork base (age cracks to head and other minor damages) -- 16in. high, signed Hozan on a rectangular red lacquer tablet on the base.