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Bamboo sticks with wood pin end sticks decorated in brown in registers of characters landscapes and figures. Black paper mounted on sticks and reinforced on ribs with shellac.

Hagoita mounted in framed box with glass. Battledore: paddle-shaped black-painted edges black cloth covered handle background of painted silk - white and salmon colored blossoms (plum) willow leaves. Calligraphy on wood upper left: Asa zuma ("shallow…

Large wood Kokeshi doll with a wide circumference and tall in hieght. The face of the doll is very simple detail. The head is made separately and attached to the highly lacquered body. Painted details are black green and red. The head is crowned with…

A tall Kokeshi doll with a long narrow body made of wood. The face on the doll is simple. It is hand-painted in black hair with bangs and hair on each side of the face. The top of the head has a red painted many-petaled flower. Five more petals are…

Medium Kokeshi doll made up of a small oval head and a tall body of a wider circumference than the head. This doll is made of one piece of wood (unusual because the head is usually separate). The painted details are red green and black. The head is…

A small Kokeshi doll with a large head that makes it look top-heavy. The doll is made of wood with a raised lathed band around the body. The face on the doll is simple. It has hand-painted black hair bangs and hair on either side of the face. Painted…

Wood Crate Wooden slats with rabbetted joints nailed covered with greenish varnished paper with black printed decorative edging; printed on one side in black block letters "DRIED LYCHEES (WAI CHEE) PREPARED AND PACKED BY TUNG CHUNG CO. KOWLOON HONG…

Colorful 2D shadow puppet cut to the shape of a dragon head (?) probably a fragment. Colors are green red and black applied to thick oblique animal hide. The dragon has two horns on top of head and wide open mouth teeth and tongue protruding.

Collection of paper cards with cut out figures attached which are able to stand on their own perhaps used for storying telling or creating a play city or processional scene. Figures and cards are cut from off white cardstock. A narrow strip is glued…

Blue/green silk brocade obi with maple chrysanthemum bamboo pine water and footbridge motifs. Dated 19th century. The obi is double layered the fabric folded and handstitched with black thread. The brocade consists of gold white grey-blue and rust…