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Baseball star Ohtani statue on sale

Former Samurai Japan manager Hideki Kuriyama poses by a life-size gold-leaf statue of Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, displayed for sale at a gold fair held at a Yokohama Takashimaya department store in Yokohama near Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2025, carrying a price tag of 55 million yen ($371,872).

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Baseball star Ohtani statue on sale

A life-size gold-leaf statue of Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is displayed for sale at a gold fair held at a Yokohama Takashimaya department store in Yokohama near Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2025, carrying a price tag of 55 million yen ($371,872).

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Illustration - New York City - NYC

UNITED STATES, NEW YORK CITY, MANHATTAN, MIDTOWN. LATE AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT ON GOLD LEAF ROOFTOP OF NOMAD (NORTH OF MADISON SQUARE) NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING. ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT IS IN THE GOTHIC REVIVAL STYLE Photo by Francois Roux/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - New York City - NYC

UNITED STATES, NEW YORK CITY, MANHATTAN, FLATIRON DISTRICT. VIEW AT SUNSET OF THE NEO-GOTHIC NEW YORK LIFE BUILDING WITH ITS GOLD LEAF ROOFTOP ADJACENT TO A STEEL AND GLASS SKYSCRAPER ON MADISON SQUARE PARK Photo by Francois Roux/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Aerial View of France

FRANCE. BOUCHES-DU-RHONE (13) AERIAL VIEW OF THE CITY OF MARSEILLE, AND IN THE FOREGROUND, THE VIRGIN AND CHILD AT THE TOP OF THE BASILICA NOTRE DAME DE LA GARDE. GILDED WITH GOLD LEAF, THE STATUE MUST BE COMPLETELY RE-DECORATED APPROXIMATELY EVERY THIRTY YEARS. IT WAS RE-DECORATED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1897, AND THE LAST RESTORATION TOOK PLACE IN 1989 Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Aerial View of France

FRANCE. BOUCHES-DU-RHONE (13) AERIAL VIEW OF THE CITY OF MARSEILLE, AND IN THE FOREGROUND, THE VIRGIN AND CHILD AT THE TOP OF THE BASILICA NOTRE DAME DE LA GARDE. GILDED WITH GOLD LEAF, THE STATUE MUST BE COMPLETELY RE-DECORATED APPROXIMATELY EVERY THIRTY YEARS. IT WAS RE-DECORATED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1897, AND THE LAST RESTORATION TOOK PLACE IN 1989 Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Behind The Scenes Of The Vatican

Restorer Massimo Bonamici in the gilding workshop at the Vatican November 17, 2015. Bonamici attempts to restore to their former splendor the gilded details of the palaces' armchairs, clocks and statuettes. He meticulously applies the gold leaf to a chair. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Behind The Scenes Of The Vatican

Restorer Viridiana Venturi in the gilding workshop at the Vatican on November 17, 2011. Venturi attempts to restore to their former splendor the gilded details of the palaces' armchairs, clocks and statuettes. She meticulously applies the gold leaf to a statue of Saint Anselm of Canterbury. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Takayama autumn festival in Japan

Floats decorated with carvings and gold leaf are shown to the public on the first day of the two-day Takayama autumn festival on Oct. 9, 2024, held to signify the arrival of autumn, in Takayama in the central Japan prefecture of Gifu. A parade of floats are planned later in the day, with about 200,000 people expected to visit the festival, designated an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 2016.

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Takayama autumn festival in Japan

Floats decorated with carvings and gold leaf are shown to the public on the first day of the two-day Takayama autumn festival on Oct. 9, 2024, held to signify the arrival of autumn, in Takayama in the central Japan prefecture of Gifu. A parade of floats are planned later in the day, with about 200,000 people expected to visit the festival, designated an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 2016.

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Takayama autumn festival in Japan

Floats decorated with carvings and gold leaf are shown to the public on the first day of the two-day Takayama autumn festival on Oct. 9, 2024, held to signify the arrival of autumn, in Takayama in the central Japan prefecture of Gifu. A parade of floats are planned later in the day, with about 200,000 people expected to visit the festival, designated an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 2016.

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Jiangnan Water Town Culture Museum in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - MAY 7, 2024 - Lotus leaf-shaped gold ornaments on display at the Jiangnan Water Town Culture Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, May 7, 2024.

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(MASTER OF CRAFTS) CHINA-HUNAN-CHU-STYLE LACQUER COATING ART (CN)

(240229) -- CHANGSHA, Feb. 29, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Hao Guanxiong puts a gold leaf on an artwork at his studio in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, Feb. 28. 2024. Chu-style lacquer coating craft took shape during the Spring and Autumn Period (770 B.C.-476 B.C.) and the Warring States Period (475 B.C.-221 B.C.). Over the past thousands of years, this oriental craft has been mainly used on wood carving artworks and famous for its complicated making, distinguished styles, varied patterns and saturated colors. In 2011, the craft was listed as one of the national-level intangible cultural heritage. Hao Guanxiong, born in central China's Hubei Province in 1992, is an inheritor of the craft. Fascinated with handmade work and painting since childhood, he was accepted by Chinese master of arts and crafts Liu Bijian as apprentice. Having worked on the craft for over ten years, he finally set up his own brand "Xiaojiaoqi" in Changsha of Hunan Province, aiming to create more artworks and promote the craft. "I

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"KANAZAWA" A LIVING LEGACY

"KANAZAWA" A LIVING LEGACY=Date:January 3, 1989, Place:Kanazawa,Ishikawa, JAPAN (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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Gold leaf left in fragment of tile found at Koriyama Castle

NARA, Japan - Gold leaf is seen left, as indicated by an arrow, in this photo taken on Sept. 12, 2014, in a fragment of tile unearthed at Koriyama Castle in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture. Toyotomi Hidenaga (1540-1591), younger brother of Japanese feudal warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, used the castle as his residence.

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Gold leaf panels decorate Kanazawa Station

NAGOYA, Japan - A gold leaf panel is seen attached to a pole on a platform at JR Kanazawa Station in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, in March 2014. The Hokuriku Shinkansen's Nagano-Kanazawa section is scheduled to begin operating in spring 2015.

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Gold-plated panda, chocolate-shaped gold sold in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The Matsuzakaya Ueno department store shows on Feb. 12, 2014 a gold-plated giant panda statue and pure gold made in the shape of a chocolate tablet which will be sold at the store in Tokyo. The 1-meter tall statue covered with 2,000 gold leaf sheets is priced at 8.88 million yen and the 1-kilogram chocolate-shaped gold at 12.6 million yen.

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World's most expensive wedding garment on display

OSAKA, Japan - What is claimed to be the world's most expensive wedding ''uchikake'' (garment worn over a bride's kimono) is put on display at an Osaka department store Nov. 2. It took veteran dyer Tomitaka Miyamoto took three years to finish the garment that contains about 110,000 pearls and gold leaf in abundance. The department store assessed its price at 800 million yen.

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Gold medal for Rio Olympics unveiled

The Rio 2016 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games unveils a gold medal for the event starting in August in Rio De Janeiro on June 14, 2016. One side (upper) represents Athens' Panathinaiko Stadium with a goddess of victory, while the other shows a design of the Olympic logo with a leaf of laurel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gold medal for Rio Olympics unveiled

Photo taken June 14, 2016, in Rio De Janeiro shows two sides of a gold medal for the 2016 Rio Olympics unveiled by the organizing committee for the event starting in August. One side (upper) represents Athens' Panathinaiko Stadium with a goddess of victory, while the other shows a design of the Olympic logo with a leaf of laurel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Late pro wrestler Rikidozan's life-size gold statue

Mitsuo Momota, a son of the late legendary pro wrestler Rikidozan, stands beside a life-size statue of his father at the Matsuzakaya Nagoya department store in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on March 18, 2015. The statute, made of fiber-reinforced plastic gilded with gold leaf, is priced at 19.44 million yen (about $161,000). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Kano school" Japanese paintings on show in U.S.

A curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, explains on Feb. 13, 2015, a gold leaf folding screen of the Kano school of painting, a dominant style of Japanese painting for some 400 years from the late 15th century, during the first such exhibition in the U.S. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gold leaf know-how supports high-tech industry

KYOTO, Japan - Plasma beams melt a titanium block into balls 0.1 millimeter in diameter for medical use at artificial joints at a factory owned by Fukuda Kinzoku Hakufun Kogyo Co. in Kyoto's Yamashina Ward. (Kyodo)

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Altar at Sanjusangendo Temple

The prayer hall at Rengeo-in Main Temple (Sanjusangendo). The seated figure in the centre is surrounded by statues of the 28 Followers of Kannon and flanked on both sides by the guardian statues of Fujin (Wind Deity) and Raijin (Thunder Deity). Made entirely of wood, the seated Senju Kannon is 3.35 meters tall and carved in the yosegi style, or joined-block construction method, with a hippaku or gold leaf finish. The eyes are made of crystal. The statue of Senju Kannon was completed in 1254 by Tankei and his apprentices, Koen and Kosei.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number42‐18‐0]

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Gold leaf left in fragment of tile found at Koriyama Castle

NARA, Japan - Gold leaf is seen left, as indicated by an arrow, in this photo taken on Sept. 12, 2014, in a fragment of tile unearthed at Koriyama Castle in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture. Toyotomi Hidenaga (1540-1591), younger brother of Japanese feudal warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, used the castle as his residence. (Kyodo)

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Gold products fair

Photo taken Aug. 19, 2020, shows a daruma good luck doll covered with gold leaf carrying a price tag of 22 million yen ($208,500) at a gold products fair at the Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi area.

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Shogi Japanese chess pieces made of pure gold

Visitors touch pieces made of pure gold for shogi, or Japanese chess, in front of a giant piece covered in leaf gold at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka, western Japan, on July 26, 2017, the opening day of a Gold Fair displaying and selling gold products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shogi Japanese chess pieces made of pure gold

A woman shows pieces made of pure gold for shogi, or Japanese chess, in front of a giant piece covered in leaf gold at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka, western Japan, on July 26, 2017, the opening day of a Gold Fair displaying and selling gold products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shogi Japanese chess pieces made of pure gold

A woman holds pieces made of pure gold for shogi, or Japanese chess, next to a giant piece covered in leaf gold at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka, western Japan, on July 26, 2017, the opening day of a Gold Fair displaying and selling gold products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pure gold commodities on display in Osaka

A 2-meter-tall statue of a Chinese phoenix gilded with some 5,000 gold leaf sheets is displayed on Nov. 17, 2016, at Takashimaya Co. department store in the western Japan city of Osaka. While the statue is not for sale, a 43.2 million yen pure gold "takoyaki" dumpling maker and a 38.9 million yen pure gold "rugby ball" were also exhibited during the event, which goes through Nov. 21. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional autumn festival in central Japan city

Tourists watch a parade of floats, decorated with carvings and gold leaf, during a traditional autumn festival in the central Japan city of Takayama on Oct. 9, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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World's most expensive wedding garment on display

OSAKA, Japan - What is claimed to be the world's most expensive wedding ''uchikake'' (garment worn over a bride's kimono) is put on display at an Osaka department store Nov. 2. It took veteran dyer Tomitaka Miyamoto took three years to finish the garment that contains about 110,000 pearls and gold leaf in abundance. The department store assessed its price at 800 million yen.