Oriental Zodiac Sign of the Year "Dragon" Wooden doll

1Tatsumura Bijutsu Orimono's Oriental Zodiac Dolls are made with a wish to ward off bad luck and bring good fortune in the new year. This doll is a popular item that sells out every year at Tatsumura Bijutsu Orimono. The surface part of the doll is decorated with a luxurious two-color "Zuiryu chuishu design," a new pattern for the zodiac sign of the Chinese zodiac "dragon," and "Shiki Matsuba," "Gold Melon," and "Single Vine Small Peony" to create a graceful and auspicious design. We hope you will display this "dragon" Mokumekomi doll, the Chinese zodiac sign of the Chinese zodiac, a symbol that brings happiness, at your home as you welcome the New Year.

Front decoration, back decoration, and auspicious clouds: Zuiryu chuishu-mon (embroidered with auspicious dragons and auspicious clouds)
The high level of skill and perfection of Chinese dyed and woven textiles had a strong influence on the surrounding countries to which they spread. This piece is based on dragon embroidery found in Chuzhou (present-day Hubei Province), the center of Chinese textile production.
The geometric composition of dragons, branches of flowers, and vines forming a rectangle as vertical and horizontal lines, which was characteristic of the embroidery patterns of the time, is utilized in this arrangement so that the dragons stand out.
The dragon, one of China's most prized designs and a symbol of courtly prosperity and marital bliss, is expressed with the technique of sutra brocade.
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Pearl and tail tip: gold melon
The epidermis of fruit trees and other plants nurtured by nature's bounty is rich and varied in expression, providing beauty in creation.
This pattern is based on the melon's epidermis, which is not created by human sensibilities, and is woven into an elegant brocade by adding originality to the beauty of a beautifully refined pattern. (Reproduced without permission)

Decoration: Shikimatsuba (pine needles)
The phrase, "warm your sake by burning autumn leaves in the forest," is a famous expression of oriental elegance.
The beauty of the natural form of fallen pine needles in the mountains and fields in late autumn also comes to life in the midst of Japanese customs and human emotions.
This elegance is abstracted and woven into the pattern. (Reproduced without permission)

Ears: Single vine small peony Tea masters in the early modern period used this type of cloth for tea ceremony utensils and for the coverings of their works and paintings, which they called "meimono sakimono.
This original is a peony arabesque, one of the most famous meimono saké. Peony arabesques are classified into large peony, medium peony, and small peony according to the size of the peony flower, and are also called single vine or double vine depending on whether the arabesque stem has one or two lines.
This piece is classified as a single-vine small peony, and is decorated with four types of floral patterns in the style of peonies and chrysanthemums, and a cloud pattern of reishi mushrooms, and woven in a graceful, elegant color scheme. (Reproduced without permission)