ORIGINAL ANTIQUE IVORY OJIME WITH TWO BOARS, MEIJI PERIOD.
 
Japanese ivory OJIME bead, Meiji period, carved with two boars,  exquisite detail.
 
MEASURES: 21mm diameter
GENERAL CONDITION: very good+ general condition, no dings or cracks anywhere, please refer to the pictures
 
Meiji is the name of a period in time in the Japanese history that started in 1868 with the Meiji Restoration and lasted until 1912. It comes immediately before the EDO period and it is often described as the time when Japan took ‘its first step to the modernization through reformation of the fundamental systems of the nation based on interactions with other countries.