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  2. Iki doll - Wikipedia

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    The term iki doll (生人形, iki-ningyō) refers to a specific type of Japanese traditional doll. They are life-sized lifelike dolls that were popular in misemono during the Edo period of Japan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Nowadays the name is mainly used to refer to shop store mannequins .

  3. Japanese dolls - Wikipedia

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    Japanese doll in traditional kimono and musical instrument. Japanese dolls (人形, ningyō, lit. ' human form ') are one of the traditional Japanese crafts. There are various types of traditional dolls, some representing children and babies, some the imperial court, warriors and heroes, fairy-tale characters, gods and (rarely) demons, and also people of the daily life of Japanese cities.

  4. Hananuma Masakichi - Wikipedia

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    Hananuma Masakichi (花沼 政吉, 1832-1895) was a Japanese sculptor specializing in "iki-ningyo" or lifelike dolls. A number of his works have survived in American and British collections, notably those of Ripley's Believe It or Not! and the Sheffield Museum (the home town of the father of the Deakin Brothers of Yokohama, dealers in oriental art and curios in the 1890s).

  5. Abandoned Japanese village home to live-sized dolls

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    A 64-year-old woman in Japan is credited with populating an abandoned village - but not in the way you'd expect. Over the years, people have slowly left the village of Nagoro on Shikoku Island.

  6. Kokeshi - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest doll-focused associations in Japan was the Sendai Kokeshi Association (Sendai Kokeshi-kai) established in 1923 by Mihara Ryōkichi (三原良吉) and Amae Tomiya. The two released a 1928 book about kokeshi, Kokeshi Hōko no Hanashi, which introduced the local tradition to the entire Japan. Mihara continued his work as a ...

  7. Hōko (doll) - Wikipedia

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    Hōko can be traced back to "talismanic figures" from early Japanese history, [1] and are likely related to the concept of using paper dolls (), as "stand-ins for people." [4] The use of Katashiro (形代, lit. "substitutes") in spiritual practice as stand-ins to take on the brunt of a person's sins or misfortune also played a role in the creation of hōko dolls [5] as well as for absentee ...

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