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.

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 ...

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 giant kokeshi doll was created by artistic duo Yotta ... “It is a great idea to disseminate Japanese traditional culture in a form like this,” she said.

Galvanized by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the manager of a kimono fabric store in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, began crafting kokeshi dolls in 2014 to promote his ...