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Tanuki Statues

Posted by Ed | Last updated Feb 28, 2018 | Animals, Dolls and Sculpture, Traditional Japan | 6 |

Tanuki Statues

by Ed | Last updated Feb 28, 2018 | Animals, Dolls and Sculpture, Traditional Japan | 6 |

A tanuki is a raccoon dog, an Asian animal that, although it looks like a raccoon, is actually a...

Hina Dolla at Awashima Jinja

by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture, Kids and Toys, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |

Hina doll at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Other posts with pictures of Awashima Jinja:...

Hina Doll at Awashima-jinja

by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |

Hina doll at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Editor’s note: this post was originally...

Awashima-jinja, the Doll Shrine

by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Festivals, Kids and Toys, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |

Ornamental battledores (hagoita) at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Battledores were used...

Hina Doll at the Awashima Shrine in Wakayama

by Ed | Last updated Aug 2, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture, Kids and Toys, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |

Hina doll at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Many Japanese people believe that dolls have souls, so instead of throwing them in the garbage, they take them to a shrine where they are blessed and ritually burned or thrown...

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