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Description
15" (38 cm.) and 16". Opulently rendered dairi-bina (imperial lord and lady) in the distinctive Kyoho style, with heads of wood covered in a fine gofun with painted features, including blackened teeth and okymayu skybrows, silk fiber hair, wearing matching silk brocade textiles featuring a dramatic dragon and cloud motif, the me-bina (imperial lady) wearing a stylized junihitoe (twelve-layer ensemble) with silk crepe sleeve ends, balloon like chirimen silk creep hakama trousers, silk brocade over the shoulder kakeobi securing a gauze mo train in back, painted wood fan, and elaborate metal crown; and the o-bina (male) with a multi-panel front bib consisting of layers of silk brocade, silk crepe, birodo black velvet with gold lamellae paper banding, holding a bone shaku scepter, long sword at hip, kanmuri court cap, and with his front feet pressed together; the pair seated atop wood frame dais with banded silk and tatami covering. Wear and fading of textiles, hair replaced, wear to stands. Edo Period, 18th century. The Kyoho-bina emerged in the mid-18th century as the dominant form of hina. Already wearing a fantastical ensemble with no relationship with real court wear, over the course of the late 18th century, the hina continued to evolve, most notably in the increased decorative panel element on the o-bina costume.