You can first meet a Kokeshi doll at a place like a flea market. You will see a small broken wooden doll hidden under the dust and mess of a barn. When you get it, it’s true love. When you return your home, you start to discover these little Japanese dolls and their fabulous history. […]
Do you love traditional Japanese arts? With it you will learn about a flower art very popular in Japan: Ikebana! What is ikebana? It looks like a bouquet of flowers in your country. But in Japan, it is much more than that. Ikebana (生け花, 活け花, “arranging flowers” or “making flowers alive”) or Kadō (華道, “way of […]
Kokeshi dolls appeared in the Edo period (1600-1868). They are handmade wooden Japanese Kokeshi Japanese Themed toys that were initially loved by children of peasant farmers in the Tohiku region of northern Japan. The dolls were often sold as a good fortune miyage (souvenir) to those visiting hot springs in the northeastern parts of the […]
Welcome to kokeshi.org, a website dedicated to the art and beauty of wooden and pottery dolls from Japan. The site aims to detail the history and traditions of creative and traditional kokeshi dolls, russian wooden dolls, matryoshkas, daruma dolls, and hakata dolls and give an insight into these fine artworks. The origin of the Japanese […]