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- kokeshi 河童こけし wooden dolls with Kappa -
Many people believe that early kokeshi were representations of girl children that were aborted or put to death after childbirth due to the inability to support a poor family of greater size.
Even the word, ko-keshi (ko o kesu 子を消す), can be loosely translated as "extinguished child" or “a child wiped out”.
It may be that kokeshi were kept as reminders of a dead child's plaything. Kokeshi are also given as charms to childless women in an effort to get pregnant. Kokeshi were kept in the family and passed down from generation to generation.
. kokeshi, こけし / 小芥子 / 子消し wooden doll .
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kinakina きなきな (Iwate)
kibokko 木ぼっこ / 木ぼこ kiboko
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Medochi メドチ， めどち - a kind of mizuchi
The medochi use human females to have them bear their children. When the child is born, the Medochi comes to claim his child. If the woman throws the baby into the water to kill it, Medochi takes the bones with him.
. - Mizuchi 蛟 - water monster .
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There are many different types of Kappa Kokeshi.
Some are souvenirs from hot springs or from the three famous Kappa regions of Tono, Chiba and Kyushu.
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酒樽をかつぐ河童こけし carrying sake flasks
はっぴに書かれた a pair wearing a happi coat
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Kappa and Tanuki 河童と狸
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. Kappa with other animals - Tanuki .
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source : facebook
Kappa with a walnut head - enjoying some noodles
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source : 河童博物館
黒い夫婦河童 Black couple of Kappa, about 8 cm high
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a Kappa group - shared in the Kokeshi Gallery, Facebook
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source : こけし天国
Two Kappa in a kyusu tea pot お茶の急須に入ったかっぱたち.
Turned to the side it looks like a Kappa couple taking a soak in a hot spring.
. kyuusu 急須 Kyusu tea pot and Daruma .
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. Hyosunbo Kappa Kokeshi ひょうすんぼ - Miyazaki .
. - female Kappa 女河童 onna Kappa kokeshi .
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source : zenmaitarow
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. . kokeshi こけし wooden dolls . .
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. MORE - kokeshi in our facebook group .
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. Kappa densetsu 河童伝説, Kappa minwa 河童民話 - Legends - Introduction .
. Mingei 民芸 Regional Folk Art from Japan .
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