It is the work scenery of a kokeshi doll. It finishes carefully. I have also inspected a long time ago.

 

There is the word "Tsubazeriai" from which the tsuba became the origin of a word. this -- a partner's sword -- Tsuba-- it means "fighting for victory or defeat fiercely" from pushing one another, caught by origin.

 

A sword guard (Tsuba) is a name of what protects the hand which inserts between the handle of a sword, and a blade and grasps a handle. A hole is made in the center, and on both sides of the upper and lower sides of a sword guard, it is crowded with two-sheet the board of a set of thin metal which gives through and a handle to this and is called Seppa to it in a blade, and is used with it, fixing.
size versatility , such as a Sinmaru form , a Aori form , a square shape, anda Mokko form .

 * This text is quoted from WIKIPEDIA.

Tugaru System
Although the head is a bobbed hair style in simple structure attachment made from one tree, not being unified as systems, such as a form and the crest, is the feature.

Nanbu System
Those without a color to which Hanamaki-shi, Iwate and Morioka-shi are called the cinchona bark cinchona bark by which the main head moves are called traditional southern part system.

Kijiyama System
It is born to Akita Kijiyama and the apron pattern and kimono signs that drew forelock on red TERAKU on a head, and the flower of the plum was drawn on the trunk are known well.

Naruko Sysytem
By the insertion formula at which sound will sound if the head in which many workers are centering on the Miyagi Naruko hot spring is turned, it puts on the trunk which the shoulder and the skirt stretched, and the pattern of the chrysanthemum is made in use.

Sakunami System
generating in Miyagi Sakunami Onsen and receiving instruction of the Yamagata system -- a system peculiar to Sakunami on the basis of it -- the crest called what extracted the skirt of the thin trunk which completed the style, and a crab chrysanthemum is typical.

Tokairida Sysytem
It progresses centering on Miyagi Togatsuta-Onsen, and the head is comparatively large, there are radiate red decoration and a radiate red bobbed hair style, and the trunk pattern of a heavy chrysanthemum and the pattern of grain are known.

Yajiro System
The ROKURO pattern and collar which were born to the Miyagi YAJIRO village and drawn on the thick trunk, and the skirt are drawn simply, and the ROKURO pattern that a head is thick is characteristic.

Yamgata System
It is in use for it to be made a Yamagata in the city and in Yonezawa, and to draw safflower, a peony, a chrysanthemum, and a plum on a crack nose with a trunk and a pillar form.

Hijiori System
There are what Yamagata Higiori Onsen put on the thick trunk which the shoulder stretched in the birthplace, and was mainly concerned with the chrysanthemum, and a thing describing a flower.

Zao System
It develops into Yamagata Zao Hot Spring, and a head has many radiate red decoration and bobbed hair styles, and the cherry tree broken down into the thick trunk is drawn.

Tuchiyu Sysyrem
Peculiar signs that it is called "return ROKURO" which reason Sakuma Asonosuke?which occurs in Fukushima Tsuchiyu Onsen and is called founder left have got across to today.

Store page introduced in the photo

A kokeshi doll is roughly divided into the "tradition kokeshi doll" in accordance with a traditional form, and the "new style kokeshi doll" imitating this.

A "tradition kokeshi doll" is classified into about ten kinds of systems according to a place of production, form, tradition circumstances, etc.

There are craft "creation kokeshi doll" and "kokeshi doll doll" currently sold at the tourist resort of not only a northeast but the whole country as a souvenir article in another side "new style kokeshi doll."

The kokeshi doll as an original toy had the thin terminal area (head) of a head and a body part so that it might be easy to grasp a small child, and it was a diameter which can also grasp the body by a child's hand.

Although the worker of a toy kokeshi doll [ such ] who is pushed on new toys, such as a kewpie, declines at the Taisho term, and does change-of-employment closure also increased, hobby people like it from Taisho's time by one side, it comes to collect kokeshi dolls, and continued being made from a child's toy as a grown-up admiration thing.

The collection of collection houses which brings a kokeshi doll together in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka would be completed, resumption will be demanded also from the worker who did brief shutdown, and, also fortunately the remarkable author's work will remain till today.

Since the adult stood, put in order and appreciated the kokeshi doll, for the diameter of the body part of a toy kokeshi doll, it was unstable and it was a trouble for the collector to fall in case of an earthquake and to get damaged. Therefore, the diameter of the body part was enlarged and the kokeshi doll devised so that the center of gravity might be made low also appeared.

Change which responded also to the kokeshi doll called a "tradition kokeshi doll" at the request of such a time is seen. However, the kokeshi doll of the Sakunami system has a thin body part, and it has left well the tradition of the toy kokeshi doll that it is small as a whole.