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Nagoro or Nagoru, now known as Nagoro Doll Village (Japanese: 名頃かかしの里), is a village in the Iya Valley on the island of Shikoku in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. It is known for the large number of realistic dolls positioned throughout the village, which have made it a tourist attraction.
The life-sized straw doll resembled her father, so she made more. And then couldn't stop. Today, the tiny village of Nagoro in southern Japan is teeming with Ayano's hand-sewn creations, frozen in ...
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.
Roughly 115 dolls are scattered around 'Scarecrow Village,' with some even propped up as students at the local school. There's a town in Japan where over half the residents are actually life-sized ...
The Iya Valley follows the river for about 50 km to the village of Iyaguchi (祖谷口) in the Yamashiro District of Miyoshi City, where it joins the Yoshino River at an elevation of about 90m. The Iya Valley was formerly divided into two designated villages, East Iya (東祖谷山村) and West Iya (西祖谷山村).
Circle of scarecrow children at Joe's Scarecrow Village. Joe's Scarecrow Village in Cape Breton, Canada, was a roadside attraction displaying dozens of scarecrows. [4] The Japanese village of Nagoro, on the island of Shikoku in the Tokushima Prefecture, has 35 inhabitants but more than 350 scarecrows. [5]
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The main street of the Naruko Onsen Village is known as Kokeshi Street and has shops which are operated directly by the kokeshi carvers. "Creative" kokeshi (新型こけし, shingata-kokeshi) allow the artist complete freedom in terms of shape, design and color and were developed after World War II (1945). They are not particular to a specific ...