The dolls are modeled after gymnasts Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey, disability advocates Paola Antonini and Kelen Ferreira, and actors Hannah Waddingham and Juno Temple, among others.
About 1,800 dolls are lined up on 60 stone steps at Tomisaki Shrine in Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture, as part of the Katsuura Big Doll Festival, to celebrate Hina Matsuri. Each year on March 3, Hina ...
(Mainichi/Nobumichi Iwasaki) KATSUURA, Chiba -- A total of about 20,000 "hina" dolls will decorate various locations in this eastern Japan city during the Katsuura Big Hina Matsuri festival from ...
It will be on demonstration at the museum for a special exhibition titled "Karakuri Puppets: Japan and the West" until March 1. Tamaya, who runs a studio in Nagoya, restored the doll at the ...