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10" (25 cm.) Carved wooden swivel head, gofun finish, very narrow inset eyes with heavy eyelids, painted facial features, slightly parted lips, teeth, "sky-brows", black silk fiber hair in elaborately-arranged wings and then tied at the back in a cascade that reaches to the floor, carved wooden hands. She is wearing an exquisitely-embroidered ivory silk kimono with pink flowers on the sleeves and red silk edging; the kimono is tucked inside extended-length pleated silk pants, and she holds a fringed-end cord leash which attaches to a white and black paper mache pup with inserted-silk fiber "fur" and which is wearing a fawn-spot patterned collar with bells. Generally excellent. Meiji era, late 1800s, her "sky-brows" indicate her status as a lady of the court.