Carved Wooden Ningyo with Unusual Costume

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8 1/2" (22 cm.) Carved wooden head with slightly-tinted gofun finish and well-painted features, closed mouth with downcast lips, moustache, elaborately-arranged silk fiber hair with topknot, finely carved wooden hands, and wearing an unusual costume of somber black and grey colors and posed on his wooden stand. Early 1900s.