At Katsuo-ji Temple, Daruma dolls watch from every corner. They peer between tree branches, cluster around altars, and dot winding pathways, flashes of bright red among the hillside forest. The iconic ...

The Hina Doll Hanging Decoration Festival is being held at four locations in the town of Higashiizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, ...

For centuries, Japanese doll artisans created spectacular works of art, invested with both significant cultural meaning and elemental beauty, encased in the deceptively simple body of a doll. In ...