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Vintage Japanese Geisha Pillow Takamakura

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Vintage Japanese  Geisha Pillow Takamakura
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This is a very unique set of pillows called "takamakura" which means "tall pillow". These were used by Geisha/Maiko to keep their elaborate hair styles perfect even while sleeping but it wasn't easy to sleep on them so to reinforce the importance of having perfect hair, rice was poured around the base of the support. If the geisha's head rolled off the support while she slept, rice would stick in her hair. The girl would thus have to repeat this process until her head no longer rolled from its support. Typically, without this happening, a geisha would have her hair styled about every week.

The base of the 2 two pillows is "urushi" or Japanese wood lacquer. Please look carefully at the pictures. The orange pillow is no longer attached to base and there is a little chip in the wood along the edge of the green one (top right hand photo in the green pillow group of pictures).

Each pillow measures about 21.5cmlong x16 cm tall x 9 cm wide. These come in their own box which says "pillow box " in Japanese. This is heavy-about 3 kgs (close to 6.6 lbs)

It is in excellent condition. It will be packed carefully and shipped via EMS express post which includes tracking and insurance.

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