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Message:: [QUOTE="Greg Laskaris, post: 9555721, member: 83002"]There's one on Etsy right now with an asking price of $575. It's 24 inches tall, and most are shorter with respectively lower values. Ours both came to us from an uncle who lived in Japan during the early 1960's, marrying a local girl and starting automatic car washes (a profitable idea). Here's a description from the Etsy listing: "An Authentic Japanese silk Geisha/Oiran/Courtesan doll made by Nishi Doll Company. This is a one of a kind, true Mid-Century item and depicts a geisha in traditional clothing preforming the "Seven Hats Dance" or "furidashi-gasa no odori" of the Musume-dojoji stage drama. This doll is made from real hand painted silk, human hair, glass, metal and brocade silk. Overall measurements are 24 inches (2 feet) in height, 10 inches in width across, and 9 inches back in depth."   If you look quickly (ha!) you can see the "Seven Hats Dance" briefly in the Oscar-winning Marlon Brando movie "Sayonara" from 1957.[/QUOTE]