Japanese Kokeshi Dolls

Item Details

An assortment of wooden Japanese Kokeshi dolls. This collection includes a doll with a black painted bun and a blue body with cranes painted on the front, a doll nestled within a bamboo nest, and a doll with brown hair. These three dolls are stamped on the bottom. This collection also includes three dolls with Japanese characters and scenes painted on their bodies and a Ejiko shaped doll that does not open.

Kokeshi dolls are traditionally lathe cut wooden dolls characterized by their lack of arms and legs with hand painted faces and bodies. They likely originated in rural northeastern Japan in the Bunka-Bunsei eras (1804-29) of the Edo Period. They were originally temple offerings and children’s toys and are now popular with tourists.

Condition

Some minor scratches and marks on the heads of the dolls from use.

Dimensions

Measurement of the tallest doll. Seven dolls in this lot.

Item #

15LOU105-140