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Description
11" (28 cm.) The gosho-ningyo is carved of wood and covered in a fine white gofun with painted details, silk hair arranged in a child's style forelock pulled back and two long side locks with silk ties, well formed fingers with painted nail details, is depicted seated with right leg thrust forward and turning slightly over his left shoulder giving him a decidedly animated energy, wearing a rich silk brocade kimono with large explosions of peonies, and secured by a knotted silk tie cord, white inner kimono, all over a classic silk brocade haragake bib with Chinese dragon and cloud patterning, seated on a silk crepe zabuton cushion. Minor wear to kimono. Edo Period, 19th century. Exhibited Japan Society (1996). Published Ningyo: The Art of the Human Figure, p. 75-76.