MINGEI Gifu Hida Takayama Dolls

LINK
http://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.jp/2011/07/gifu-folk-toys.html

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Takayama town, Hida Takayama 飛騨　高山


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Takayama tsuchi ningyoo 高山土人形 clay dolls
They were made in the spare time of many potters.
One of the pioneers was 岩信成 Iwa Nobunari, who studied doll making in Nagoya and Toyama.
He settled in Hida Takayama in 1922.
He also relied on the tradition of 山田焼 Yamada yaki from Hida.


Takayama tsuchi ningyoo no dorei 高山土人形の土鈴 clay bells


source :　www.ryuss2.pvsa.mmrs.jp

made by 岩光子 Iwa Mitsuko, second generation doll maker.
She uses only natural material for firing her kiln and takes about one full day to fire the dolls.


- - - - - 高山人形 Takayama Ningyō
鯛抱き童子 ♥ Child Holding Sea Bream
太鼓持ち ♥ Child Holding Drum
神功皇后 ♥ Jingū-kōgō,Empress Consort Jingū
鯛乗り恵比寿 ♥ Ebisu on Sea Bream
牛乗り天神 ♥ Tenjin on Ox
- source : newday.sakura.ne.jp/claydolls -

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Hida Takayama Doll Festival

The doll (Hina) festival is celebrated one month later than the traditional Doll's Day in Takayama so that the actual festival day is April 3. Approximately one month before the festival day, traditional (Hina) dolls such as clay dolls, antique dolls, Meiji era dolls, etc. are displayed at various locations throughout the city.

Hida Live Dolls Festival

Single women selected from all over Hida render service at a Shinto shrine, attired in costumes of the Empress, consort, ministers, and court ladies. The parade of Live Dolls, as it winds through the village, looks as if it were right out of a picture scroll of the Heian period. Rice cakes are scattered at the end of the festival.

- Spring festivals in Hida Takayama
Kinzojishi (Kinzo lion dance)
- source : hida.jp/english/event_spring -


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