2010年9月26日 10:14
Traditional dolls
Once I went to
This doll is in traditional wedding kimono.
And this is traditional kokeshi doll. It is sooo cute!
Traditional Russian dolls are famous matreshka and ritual rag dolls.
Matreshka and kokeshi have a lot in common. They both are female, and are carved out of the wood and painted by hand, and have no arms and legs. I've read that perhaps kokeshi is the prototype of matreshka.
Traditional Russian rag dolls are made without faces, because it is considered that such doll is inanimate object and evil spirit can't move into it.
As for Japanese china dolls, they not only have faces, but moreover they are real works of art. And they are objects for admiring. Japanese have such tradition as admiring. They have special days to admire moon, or snow, or cherry blossom, or something else.