Overview

This piece is a figure of a sweet young boy, wearing a silk crape coat over a white Kosode garment. His two tied hair-rings on the forehead show the special hair-do for a boy of the noble family before reaching the age of fifteen; later, a ready-made hair-piece came to replace the actual tying of such hair-rings. The doll, faithfully reproducing such a style, is a remarkable relic of the period's manners and customs. A typical example of the Gosho dolls, literally deriving their origin from the Imperial Palace and gradually adopted by the townsfolk, it is a product of excellent workmanship and noble quality.