This is a pair of Japanese dolls of a Chinese baby called an ichmatsu doll. They are made of composition (mixed materials inside the body) and gofun on the face (a sticky oyster shell paste. They are small, about 4 to 5 inches inches tall (please see all the photos). Despite the cracks there is still charm and beauty to these little dolls, and a clear amount of age, probably Edo period,
Named after Sanogawa Ichimatsu, an 18th c. Kabuki actor who specialized in female roles, Ichimatsu dolls are an Edo era invention. They portray little Japanese girls and boys in their holiday silk kimonos and are sometimes commissioned by the rich as portraits of their children.
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