Japanese vintage doll. Wearing a beautiful brocade kimono and obi, samurai's hat and carrying two buckets.
The doll has a beautiful gofun face, smiling in a very mild expression, looking afar.
This doll is about 60 years old.
The story behind this doll character... she is from a Noh story called Matsukaze, which means, wind from pine forest at Suma lagoon. This girl is one of two sisters that loved the samurai Yukihira. The two sisters loved Yukihira and were waiting for him coming back from an island that was for political prisoners. Because of some misunderstanding, he'd made a samurai of superior rank very angry. The sisters waited for three years but he didn't come back. He died on the prison island. This girl is one of the sisters waiting for him, wearing his hat and dipping for sea water in the evening which gets the reflection of the moon in the pails. The moon is one (the samurai) but the two pails makes two shadows (the sisters) on the sand from the moon, so the moon makes two sisters love him.
Glass eyes in a beautiful, matte white face
The head, hands and feet are gofun a traditional Japanese material of oyster shell powder mixed with glue to create a porcelain type surface. The base is lacquered wood.
Hand painted features
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Condition:
Very good
 
     Height
     Approximately 30.5cm
 
 
 
 
 
 
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