Okkawa dolls Aichi

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Okkawa tsuchi ningyoo 乙川土人形 clay dolls from Okkawa
Otsugawa ningyoo 乙川人形 Otsugawa dolls
Okkawa ningyo オッカワニンギョウ .
Okkawa, a town at the river Otogawa 乙川（おとがわ）- 半田市 Handa town
The reading of the characters varies.

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Ebisu and Daikoku for Good Luck

The tradition started when craftsmen from Fushimi / Kyoto settled in the area.
Sugiura Izaemon 杉浦伊左衛門 was one of the Fushimi craftsmen.
During the Isewan Taifun all was lost, but in the 6th generation
杉浦実 Sugiura Minoru revived the craft of his ancestors.

Many dolls feature themes of the seasonal festivals and Kabuki actors.
They were also used as amulets at Taketoyo Inari Shrine　武豊稲荷.

知多半島の四季を愛する会 Four seasons of the Chita peninsula - Video
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Okkawa "Dashi" Festival
This Sunday it was the "Dashi" Festival in Okkawa - small town near Nagoya. This is a very dangerous festival to carry floats up and down the hill. Young men who take the first position of a steersman can merry the most beautiful girl in Okkawa area. Of course now it's only a tradition, but the men are fighting for the important place as it was long time ago. The clothes which everybody in town wears on this day is hundred years old (literally). They don't wash it so it does not bleach.
The Dashi's (floats) are extremely beautiful.
They have such a fine chasing that you can admire it for hours. On the top of them there is a place for performance of karakuri mechanical dolls which is very strange for the western eyes and even more strange for the ears.
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. maneki neko 招き猫 Manekineko beckoning cat .


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Fukusuke 福助貯金玉 Fukusuke as a piggy bank

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taikomochi dooji 太鼓持ち童子 child with a drum


. komori 子守 / 子守り taking care of a baby .

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