Vending machines and traditional wooden kokeshi dolls are both icons of Japanese culture, and a hot spring resort in northeastern Fukushima Prefecture has combined the two. The novelty of being able ...

Husband and wife team Lisa and Jacob Hodsdon combine their artistic talents as they craft modern interpretations of the traditional Japanese Kokeshi doll. The dolls, believed to bring prosperity and ...

Husband and wife team Lisa and Jacob Hodsdon combine their artistic talents as they craft modern interpretations of the traditional Japanese Kokeshi dolls. Japanese-American, Lisa Holt- Hodsdon ...

Kokeshi dolls are traditional Japanese wooden figures that originated in the Tohoku region almost 150 years ago. Crafted without arms or legs, they feature a trunk and head adorned with delicate ...

What do you do when a series of books you are supposed to review are so beautiful, so creative, so artistic and so imaginative, that you can't summon up the words it would take to describe it? Kokeshi ...

Japan's iconic kokeshi dolls, born hundreds of years ago in Tohoku, have recently experienced a surge in popularity. In a way, kokeshi dolls owe their existence to the snow. The iconic wooden dolls ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Sendai Kiji Workshop in Japan makes Kokeshi dolls, a type of wooden doll carved from a single block of wood that originated in mountainside villages 200 years ago.

The traditional kokeshi doll is an unmistakable symbol of Japanese culture. But it's usually not as big as the one lying outside Tokufuji Temple in Kyoto. The 12-meter-long inflatable doll is on ...

The stereotype about hip-hop artists having big heads is literally coming true as Run DMC members become the latest cultural icons to receive their own iconic Kokeshi Collection dolls. The designer ...

A 29-doll collection will be on display at the Japanese Culture Centre at 6 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street from 5pm on July 26, while a 'Dialogue with Ukiyo-e Arts' event will be open, free admission, at ...