Standing at almost 15 inches tall, this sensitively realized Japanese beauty is named: the Peony Maiden of Summer. With a fan in one hand against her chest, she is wearing a cream white kimono, meticulously decorated with hand-painted butterflies and flowers motifs. The large Hakata doll is beautifully crafted in a naturalistic dancing pose. Signed Masafusa. It is of a limited edition created in the mid Showa period; yet undoubtedly a fine example of the extraordinary elegance in romanticism since the Meiji era (1868-1911), when Hakata doll first began to gained worldwide acclaim at the Paris World Fair. Other than a barely visible scratch lines near her left eye, the doll is overall in excellent condition.