Kokeshi Adventures こけしの冒険

T he みちのく祭 Michinoku Matsuri in Yamagata City started on 5 October, and we arrived there later in the afternoon after having attended a kok...

I was at the bookstore a couple weeks ago and found two kokeshi books I had never seen before and immediately bought them for Naoko. The f...

S o, how does one display his or her kokeshis? There is no one answer to this question. In an early blog I suggested that kokeshis are suit...

W e arrived at Sendai around five o'clock, and had a room waiting for us in a chain hotel in the city. However, we decided to drive up ...

L ast weekend we drove up to Yamagata City for the 33rd annual Michinoku Kokeshi Festival and had a great adventure. I'll write about v...