Costume doll depicting a young girl in the role of a shiokumi (salt-scooper), a figure from Japanese folklore traditionally associated with the gathering of seawater for salt production. She is attired in a kimono of brocaded silk, adorned with a gilded headpiece, and carries a wooden yoke across her shoulders suspending two pails painted with stylized wave motifs. This ensemble reflects the customary costume of the shiokumi, a character emblematic of longing and devotion, who performs a ritual dance in remembrance of a lost poet-lover.
The doll's eyes are brown glass, inset into the head, and her hair is black, rendered in a synthetic wig sewn into the scalp. She is mounted on a small, rectangular wooden base.