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Title
Kintarô (Kintoki) Doll
Artist/Maker
HIRATA Gôyô 2nd artist
Period/Era

Taishô period (1912-1926)

Object type

Doll

Culture

Japanese

Date

circa 1925-1927

Place Associated

Japan

Materials

Boy's Day Doll Musha ningyô of Shasei-i (realistic) type; pigmented gofun (crushed oyster shell) over tôso (composition) body with painted details, inset glass eyes, boars-hair hair, with kinran haragake bib, with phoenix design, sleeveless outer jinbaori coat with dragon, cloud, pheonix & floral motif) with signature on bottom of left foot reading "Goyo saku" mounted on rosewood stand, accoutered with oversize kabuki-style sword, married with replaced koi-nobori-style fish

Dimensions

H. 20 x W. 12 x D. 7 inches (figure only) ; H. 23 x W. 17-3/4 x D. 12 inches (on wooden base)

Credit Line/Donor

Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art

ID Number

MWJ67:79

Location

In storage

Exhibitions

Dolls from the Edo Period

Art for the Children's Festivals of Japan: Selected from the Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art


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