Pink sequined robe with wide extended sleeves, side slits and side opening with ties. On the front and back are roundels with yellow and white peonies and a white geometric pattern on pink ground. Between the roundels are smaller circles with a yellow and white cross motif. The collar band has yellow and white peonies and a gold-yellow meander pattern. The sleeve and border bands are yellow-gold lines. The inside lining is white, with large lotus motifs embroidered in yellow.

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: large head (part b) fits into body with skirt (part a), and a control rod (part c) with a long shaft passes through the body and fits into the neck of the figure's head. The body has jointed arms, each with a long controlling rod attached. The figure's face is glossy pink with black moustache, sideburns and caste mark. White eyeballs with black pupils; four gold teeth exposed. Yellow neck; black backswept hair outlined in gold. Light pink, green, red, and gold crowns; same colours repeated in elaborate headdress which rises at back to a form resembling a bird with a lolling green tongue. Upper row of jagged teeth . Figure wears black jacket, pink upright collar, edged with red on front; wide green band around waist, narrow red belt. Jacket sleeves have inserts above the cuffs decorated with red braid. Red cord at back of neck forming epaulettes. Orange shoulder sash; white vest, small yellow piece of fabric at neck line. Long batik skirt, coloured cream, brown and black. Hands yellow.

Female doll with a white face (part a) and dressed as Ryukuan dancer. She is dressed in an elaborate brocade costume of red, gold, blue, and white. Her hair is tied back with a purple scarf. She is holding a green stick (part b) that has a cylinder that is perpendicularly attached to the stick in her right hand. Her right arm angles backward.

Noblewoman (part a) of Heian Period. She has an elaborate coiffure with four bright flowers and silver ornaments as her hair is tied up in a fan-like bun at the top. She is holding a long red fan (part b) trimmed with gold in her right hand. Her dress is adorned with long ribbons and ties. Label reads "Japan". Standing on a flat tree trunk for a base.

Warrior dressed in elaborate armoured suit. Colours are basically orange, gold and black. He is carrying a sword in his right hand. Standing on a flat tree trunk for a base.

Geisha doll with full length figure dressed in a robe, predominantly of gold, green, and orange. Trim is red and white. Elaborate coiffure. Her hair is adorned with gold and pink flowers and red hair accessories. Some of her hair is tied up above her head and some of it flows down the front at either sides. Her left hand is upraised while her right arm is bent at the elbow so that her right hand can hold a piece of the fabric through which her left hand is attached. Standing on a black rectangular wood base.

Two warriors (part a) dressed in elaborate suits of armour and engaged in combat. One warrior is leaning against a tree as he is kneeling on his right knee with his left knee up and his right arm upraised with a sword (part b). The other warrior is bent forward with his right foot on a rock and both hands holding a sword pointing to his left. On a black rectangular base.

Small, flat, square, embroidered, envelope-style bag, detailed with mirrors and pompoms, made by folding and stitching together three corners of a flat, square panel to form a pocket, with the fourth corner left open to serve as a flap or cover. The square-shaped embroidered motifs, formed from bars of satin stitch, are grouped together into larger squares, arranged in an X shape, and are outlined in black. Mirror-work is incorporated into the designs and along the edges of the square. The embroidery is so dense that it completely covers the background textile. The seams are embellished with decorative stitching. There are small pompoms scattered throughout the design. Two thin fibre strings are attached to the corner of the flap. The embroidery is underlined with multicoloured cotton gauze.

Rectangular, embroidered panel (woman's blouse-front -- unfinished) made of red cotton muslin, heavily embellished with designs worked in metallic and multicoloured threads, and combining two different styles of embroidery. In the centre of one end of the panel (the top of the blouse design) is a long, narrow, vertical, dagger-shaped section embellished with closely-spaced mirrors and large, circular whorls made of coiled silver, metal-wrapped thread, laid and couched with black thread. Parts of the designs are worked in chain stitch and elongated square chain stitch. Rows of metallic whorl motifs also embellish two rectangular shoulder panels and two square panels at chest level. Black thread is used for couching the silver thread in some of the whorls, while in others, yellow thread is used, giving the illusion that the silver metallic thread is gold. Portions of the design are unfinished or incomplete. At the other end of the panel (below the waist level of the blouse-front), the designs form an apron effect, decorated with scattered, multicoloured X-shaped motifs worked in satin stitch. There is a border of temple-shaped motifs, flowers and mirrors at the 3 edges of this “apron.” There are raw edges on all 4 sides of the panel, and there is no underlining. Four glass beads (3 opalescent, 1 green) are incorporate into the design, but do not contribute to the design scheme itself.

The wood mask (part a) is beige-pink with a wrinkled brow and eyebrows painted whispy black. Round bulging gold-coloured eyes with the pupils cut out. Large nose with nostrils cut out. Red-painted groove for compressed mouth. Moustache, goatee, and beard painted whispy black. The bag (part b) is a light beige-cream colour with a patterned floral landscape design including the colours red, blue, green, pink, silver, and orange-beige. The bag has two ties, one on the side and the other on the overlaying flap to tie and close the bag together.