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Description
20" (51 cm.) Carved wooden head depicting a slender-faced woman 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 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, and mounted on original black lacquer base. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Edo Period, 1800s, among the most popular genre of 19th century Japanese dolls was Takeda, the dramatically posed figures representing figures from the beloved Kabuki tradition. Value Points: rare 200 year old Japanese doll whose legend is told in Ningyo, The Art of the Japanese Doll, by Alan Pate, page 262/3, in which this actual doll is shown.