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20" (51 cm.) (including stand and crown). Both have carved wooden heads with burnished gofun complexion, painted features including very narrow eyes, brows and sky-brows, blackened accent line between teeth, well-formed wood hands. He has wooden feet with tabi socks, and she has exceptional black silk fiber hair extending to her hem. Their matching gold brocade costumes are very rare to find; she with a twelve-layer kimono over red trousers, an elaborate crown, and wooden fan with painted pine tree designs and multi-color silk tassels; and he with eboshi court hat with rare tall extended "eri" Each is posed on its original wooden striped-fabric base. Generally excellent. Edo period, early 1800s. The Imperial Couple in a standing pose and with fully-rendered bodies are very rare to find, a short-lived style that evolved from the earlier paper Tachi-bina. This pair is photographed and described in Ningyo, The Art of the Japanese Doll by Alan Scott Pate, page 84.