For those seeking a glow to their Christmas this year, a jewelry³ store in downtown Tokyo has just the answer: a pure gold revolving⁴ "tree" covered in Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse, Tinker Bell and Cinderella.

 

The tree-like ornament is made of 40 kg of pure gold, standing about 2.4 meters  high and 1.2 meters in diameter. It is decorated with pure gold plate silhouette⁵（轮廓，剪影） cutouts of 50 popular Disney characters and draped with ribbons made of gold leaf.

 

The price tag? A mere⁶ 350 million yen⁷ ($4.2 million).

 

But the ornament is actually a deal, said Tomoko Ishibashi, in the marketing⁸ department of Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry, which runs the Ginza Tanaka jewelry store.

 

"Right now gold is over 4,400 yen per gram. We used pure gold and had an expert craftsman⁹ form each Disney character by hand," she said of the decoration, which took 10 craftsmen¹⁰ two months to complete.

 

The combination of gold and Disney characters had spectators mesmerized¹¹（迷住）.

 

"It is very vivid and the gold is very pretty," said Takashi Miura, a 36-year-old jeweler. "The characters on it are also really cute and it really looks like a Christmas tree."

 

For those with less ready cash, the store offers a scaled-down version that features 20 Disney characters and stands 25 cm high for a mere 2 million yen ($243,000).

 

While nobody has yet made a down payment on the larger tree, the miniature has already found buyers, Ishibashi said.

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