NINGYO
- JAPANESE DOLLS
Masterpieces
of Japanese dolls from the Edo time to modern
times
We offer you on three outline pages and 40
main pages a selection of fine Japanese dolls, devided
up into the following subjects:
Page
1 with classical dolls made of wood, HINA-NINGYO
and equipment
Page
2 with MUSHA- and KYOTO-NINGYO and Costume
and Collectors' Dolls
Page
3 with GOSHO-, KIMEKOMI- and ICHIMATSU-NINGYO
and Baby-Dolls
All offered dolls are unique objects and original
items
from the Edo, Meiji, Taisho or Showa period,
as described in the main parts, which you can
reach over the outline pages 1, 2 and 3.
Japanese Dolls
Dolls
played an important roll in Japan, at festivals,
as talismen, or just as a toy. During centuries
a great variety of forms developed, from dolls
simply made out of paper by the children themselves
to valuably dressed and wonderfully moulded
unique objects, made by craftsmen and ordered
by rich citizens and noblemen for the girls'
and boys' festivals. Already for the birth of
a child dolls,
as Kimekomi- and Ichimatsu-Ningyo, Osuari- and
Hai-Hai-Ningyo, were given as a present from the relatives. During the Tokugawa
period travellers took Gosho-Ningyo with them as
a talisman.
We show you a nice selection
of very different dolls. All items are unique
and conscientious pieces of work, some of them
even rare collectors' pieces. Today all over
the world antique dolls, including Japanese
dolls as well, belong to the most soughtafter
collectors' objects.
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