2007/07/30

Princess Daruma Ejiko

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Princess Daruma、Hime Daruma 姫達磨 姫だるま

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source : facebook

sweets from temple 光明寺 Komyo-Ji
served for the tea ceremony


. Daruma Food LINKS .

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They come in all forms and patterns, from many parts of Japan, but mostly in the Western parts of the country.


But this is different :---
. Onna Daruma 女達磨 女だるま 女ダルマ  
Daruma as a woman



The Princess Daruma of Matsuyama comes with the following story.
When the legendary Empress Jinguu Koogoo (Jingu Kogo), which we met already in the story about Uto Daruma, stayed at the Hot Spring Doogo in Matsuyama on the island of Shikoku on her way to the Korean battlefield, she realized that she was pregnant.


Read my main story HERE

Princess Daruma from Matsuyama  松山の姫だるま



Uto Hime, Princess Daruma / 宇土姫達磨
including : Takeda Princess Daruma 竹田の姫だるま


. Kaga Hachiman Okiagari 加賀八幡起上り Okiagari Hime Daruma .
Kanazawa, Ishikawa


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Here is an old papermachee doll with a very special headband (hachimaki 鉢巻), almost looking like princess Himiko herself.

It has a "Treasure Ship" (takarabune 宝船) painted on the belly.
This kind of painting is often found in Daruma from Matsukawa, Sendai.





Backside of headband



Click on the PHOTOS for more details.

Do you know where this doll is from ?
どこの姫だるまでしょうか?教えて !!


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Matsukawa Daruma 仙台の松川だるま
Photo of Treasure Ship

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Hime Daruma, Princess Daruma from Dogo Onsen Matsuyama
ひめだるまキティ, 姫だるまキティ as Kitty Doll



. Rachel Hoshino, designer, Brasil  


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Kokeshi Hime Daruma as strap
comes in many colors

こけしストラップ 姫だるま

With more kokeshi Daruma
source : kijidaruma.co, Fukushima .

This store also sells little



sleeping baby in a basket えじこ ejiko
ejiko were made from straw, woven around a bucket. They were layered with special material to absorb little accidents, with a special hole for the buttocks of the baby. The urine could be collected in the lower part of the bucket.
They are a speciality of Tohoku to keep the babies warm in the cold winter months.
In the many local dialects they are called
shigura ツグラ、 shibura ツブラ、izumi イズミ、izume イズメ、bugo フゴ、ijiko イジコ、ejiko エジコ

Sometimes the kokeshi can nodd with the little head.
source : kijidaruma.com - 31


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Ejiko collection ITSKE STERN
source : discover nikkei.org

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えじこ だるま ejiko Daruma san

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. . . CLICK here for Photos of EJIKO baskets !



老工の手にうずくまるえじこかな
rookoo no te ni usukumaru ejiko kana

squatting in the hands
of the old craftsman -
this baby basket


Bokko

source : kokeshi bokko


. Folk Toys from Fukushima .

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Iwate 岩手県

In some parts of Iwate the deity of the hearth and kitchen fire is Fudo Myo-O 不動様.
He dislikes impure things. If a child pees in the kitchen by accident, mother has to extinguish the fire and throw purifying salt on it.
If you do impure things in the kitchen, your mouth will become strangely curved.
In the morning before breakfast if you use the vines of wisteria or Kuzu 葛の蔓 to light the fire, the family will become poor.
If you burn an old baby basked made from straw (ejiko えじこ, enshiko エンツコ), the child that had been in this basked will die in a fire.

. Legends about Fudo Myo-O 不動明王 .

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source : Tono Ichiba Iwate

red Kappa water goblin in an ejiko basket
赤かっぱのえじこ人形


- KAPPA - 河童 / 合羽 / かっぱ / カッパ - ABC-Index -

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