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14" (36 cm.) The classic Tachi-bina (standing Hina) couple for the Hina Matsuri Girl's Day display, are formed of silk over stiffened paper, wood heads covered in a fine gofun with painted details including blackened teeth and okymayu skybrows, silk fiber hair closely pulled back in a braid for her and a top knot for him. The o-bina (imperial lord) appears in a t-shape with wide stretched arms revealing a rich red silk covered in densely embroidered designs of pine trees and flowering wisteria with painted gold cloud patterns, hakama trousers in a green silk brocade with scrolling flower design with sacred treasure motif and lacquered paper kanmuri court cap the me-bina (imperial lady), in a more diminutive cylindrical form, wears matching red silk kimono secured by a silk brocade obi matching the o-bina's hakama, Late Edo/Early Meiji Era, Mid-19th century. Tachi-bina represent an early stage of development in the hina-ningyo of the Hina Matsuri. Although full-figured seated forms later came to dominate, beginning in the 18th century, the popularity of tachi-bina continued unabated through successive generations down to the present day.