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"Amamehagi" Size: 1.56" Price: SOLD


Here is another crazy awesome example of John's Japanese Oni heads! This head has fantastic construction with great features all around, looking as mean and fiery as a marble can look! There is Lucy glass worked into the hair, horns and eyes, so the head takes on this unearthly pink and purplish glow when you hit it with the black light, SOOO crazy cool. Seriously legendary and amazing work, museum worthy to say the least. It comes tucked inside it's own wooden boxed cage, also created by hand from John. The cage is adorned with stamps that John picked up in Japan, some of them from our most recent trip there in March of 2017. There are two skull feet at the front, which allow the cage to sit an angle for great viewing of the Oni inside, and also two horns on the top (like the Oni) and a skull door latch. Finally, there are TWO black lights attached on either side of the cage - just twist them on and the Oni comes glowing to life in the dark, its piercing beady eyes staring out at you!! Ha ha, so mind-bogglingly AWESOME, and it's so hard not to keep every one of these! Signed with John's Kanji signature.

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