Wooden Kokeshi Doll Round natural brown wood head with a knob on top representing hair bun, hair is painted black, high grey rounded eyebrows, grey oblong shaped nose, black dots for eyes, pink painted cheeks, wide red smiling mouth; head has narrow peg for neck which is inserted into the body so that it can nod. The body is cylindrical shaped, rounded and narrowed at the top, slightly narrowed at the bottom. Black painted outline of kimono, the brown natural wood acts as the background to pink plum blossoms with yellow stamens, green painted obi with white circle design, dark red painted obi jime and under collar. There is a black character written on the bottom.

1996.010.110