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A large model of a standing bijin holding a fruiting peach spray over her right shoulder, wearing an elaborate diadem in her black hair arranged in a high chignon with two side loops and covered in a cloth pinned by a ho-o, a ruyi-shaped necklace around her neck, wearing an elaborate kimono painted, moulded and heavily gilt with a ho-o across the cape at the back above butterflies, mythical birds and stylized flowerheads among blue and gilt stylized scrolls, a scarf around her shoulders falling to the ground at the back, decorated with stylized chrysanthemum on an iron-red ground, the edges of her sleeves decorated with demi flowerheads on iron-red grounds above a shaped panel to the edges, with tassels hanging from her skirts to the ground, her shoes painted in iron-red, black and green -- 29¾in. high.
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