Mr. Toshio Negishi's tortoise daruma is frivolous, but arrogant.
 
Tama Daruma dolls have been made since the Edo period (the Ansei era) as folic acid and lucky charms for prosperous business, and are still sold at Daruma markets such as Jindaiji Temple.
 
The Tama Daruma has become almost vacuum-formed, and now it is a hand-stretched Daruma that has become very valuable.
Mr. Toshio Negishi, who is 92 years old, puts Japanese paper on wooden molds and draws them one by one with a brush.
"I'm clumsy," says Negishi. That clumsiness gives birth to a lovely doll.
 
Body 238g without box Packing 540g
23 cm high x 20 cm wide x 17 cm wide