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20" (51 cm.) Carved wooden head depicting a slender-faced person with gofun finish, painted features, narrow eyes, teeth, feathering of hair around the forehead, silk fiber hair in elaborate upswept arrangement over shape-retaining form, costume-wrapped body except expressively-shaped wooden hands, and with body posed in animated manner, her head tilted and turned to the side, and arms extended, as she appears to elegantly stroll across a wooden bridge that is fronted by silk irises. The woman is garbed in a luxury silk crepe (chirimen) kimono with heavily-embroidered designs of peonies on the sleeves, and with brocade sleeveless outer jacket, court style Eboshi hat, and folding fan. Mounted on original black lacquer base with inset front panel of embroidered silk. Excellent condition. Edo period, 1800s. Shown and described in Ningyo, The Art of the Japanese Doll, by Alan Pate, page 262/3.