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.

Small, flat, rectangular, multi-coloured pouch made by folding a long, narrow, embroidered panel in half crosswise and stitching up the long sides, leaving one narrow end open. The embroidery is so densely worked that almost none of the background textile is visible. The two sides of the pouch are almost identical in design and colour. Each side has a rectangular centre design panel embroidered with diamond shaped motifs outlined in black, some embellished with mirrors; the centre panel is outlined in dark yellow stitching, a row of mirrors interspersed with embroidered bars, and an edging of black “braid” made from dense bundles of black thread that are laid and couched at wide intervals. There is a pompom made of cotton thread at each corner. The pouch is lined with red printed cotton gauze.

Embroidered, rectangular textile panel, heavily stitched in soft colours with cotton and silk thread on red cotton fabric. Very little of the background textile shows through the dense stitching. The design consists of rows of large circles, separated by narrow bands of black and yellow diamond motifs. Mirrors are incorporated into the design motifs. Three edges of the rectangle are finished with five rows of multicoloured (teal, light blue, magenta, chartreuse, green) cotton binding (machine stitched). One long edge is raw, with the remnants of machine stitches where something has been removed. One end of the panel has a border motif of circles, mirrors and diamond shapes. The embroidery is underlined with scraps of multicoloured textile.