Thank you so much! I've read through the links provided, (not all of them yet, of course!), and I ran into the Tsugaro Kokeshi style dolls which have a...
Yes, I agree some very interesting links, thank you for posting these. I have just added a photo the the embroidery photo album of embroidered Daruma and...
Hi Madelyn, I am afraid I do not know much about the American market of kokeshi. Here in Japan many are now awailable online too and we do not have to travel...
Madelyn: Here in Canada Kokeshi dolls are very common. There is not a big variety but we have many stores with Asian themes (not only Japanese but Chinese and ...
Hi Steve, I recently moved to California from NYC and have not yet discovered all the shopping areas in California. I have not yet had any luck finding a shop...
Hi All, Here is the yahoo auction japan site for kokeshi http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/search/auc?p=%A4%B3%A4%B1%A4%B7&auccat=0&alocale=0jp&acc=jp just...
Hi Madelyn: I am very surprised to hear that you have not found any Kokeshi in CA yet. I would have assumed that all Japanese art would be big in CA as well a...
Dear friends, I am working on the Washoku saijiki and would like to introduce some hanga (and nihonga) with food items. I have started here (no time to find...
... Hi Chibi san, thanks for your kind thoughts. GokuRakuAn is continuing its quiet life, lowly, slowly and with a lot of natures presents which are all free...
Daruma watches over you Here it is, the long awaited gadget ... a yellow Daruma Doll with a camera in his eye, watching over the crime secen of Japan ...
Two additions from an exhibition in Suruga this autumn. http://darumamuseum.blogspot.com/2008/07/suiseki-stones.html Greetings from Japan! Taking a morning off...
Golden glories : Museum in Ueno celebrates Rinpa Michael Dunn Japan Times of Today http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fa20081030a1.html Ogata Korin...
Hi Gabi san and have a blessed All Saints Day (the day after Halloween). Thought I would send you a link about the Shodou for Peace in Mainichi shimbun: ...
... Thanks for the Kanji collection for peace ! These kids really write well, astonishing ! Just back from a tour to meet some Daruma friends at Takamatsu,...
Dear friends, I took off two days from the washoku book work and we made it to Takamatsu, meeting with some friends from the Daruma Kenkyu Kai. Here is the...
*Wrapping Paper Art * Some wrapping paper has beautiful prints. Here are some of them. *CLICK for enlargements.* ... Momotaro Kibidango. Millet Dumplings with...
checking about the bamboo dolls from Echizen, which are quite amazing with their 4000 strings of wavy hair on the head, I came across this page of kitty dolls...
These bamboo dolls are gorgeous. The Japanese have such an amazing sense of art and beauty. I hope we can find some when we return to the land of the rising...
Hi Steve, I just saw a program of the makers on TV, this inspired me. They are sold online in Japan Echizen Takeningyoo http://www.takeningyo.com/tuuhan.html ...
Thank you Gabi. These are truly works of art. Steve ... From: Greve Gabi To: Darumasan-Japan@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:30 AM Subject:...
Toward the end of the Yayoi period, the story of Iwakamutsukari no Mikoto, the first-ever kitchen chef, is told in the Nihon-shoki chronicles of Japan. Read...
Dear Friends, after doing intensive research on the food book project for more than two months and writing more than 50 pages of manuscript the reality of our ...
Dear hardworker,  Use the material for YOUR OWN puposes .  Create a food blog ( to begin ) and monitize it... ( use the money to feed the world, or...
