Kokeshi Crafts shop

  Each doll has the different taste according to the producing area both for Kokeshi and Matryoshka.

We will introduce some items on this web site.  We hope that you would feel each characteristic and find the-only-one among a variety of Kokeshi and Matroshka in the shop.

Tohoku

 

  East coast of this area was attacked by the tidal waves 2011.  There are more than a few districts which are still in the middle of rebuilding.  I hope that to promote their works would be a part of the supports for them.

    It is said that Kokeshi was born in the late Edo period (1603-1868) then Matryoshika in the next era of Meiji.
  They look like the beautiful dolls of sisters enjoying their meeting for the first time in the long years.

 

Kokeshi

 

Matryoshika


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