... thanks!
Starting to learn i CAN google ok, but i suck at finding foreign language stuff.
Many thanks for the link!
Copy/Pasted history below for ease:
"Kobe doll" is a wind-up doll was born in Kobe in the mid-Meiji era. Doll on the table is to move the hand, shook his head, eating a watermelon by opening a big mouth, drinking sake .... Delicate mechanism with its comical movement was not only recap Kobe-kko, the popularity of foreign tourists visiting Kobe. In fact, Kobe doll made early Showa from Meiji, has been left many parts of Europe and America.
Work materials such as Tsuge (Boxwood) is used, and emphasized the beauty of the wood surface is large and Kobe puppet of the Meiji era, because it was sold or "haunted doll", "Nunobiki doll" waterfall (tourist attraction, Nunobiki It was also called, etc.). The beginning of the Showa era, by the time the whole work is to be painted in black, the name "Kobe doll" was gradually established.
After the war, and you know as the author of the Kobe doll, Kobe hundreds of kinds and Oda FutoshiShiro, made famous Kobe doll be eyed as Dezaki Fusamatsu Noguchi Hyakuoni-do the original, and the second generation, in the early Showa It is Suoka MiyabiAtsushi who energetically made the doll. Without a creator over the past few years, it became the abolition state, but in Japan Toy Museum from 2002, was carried out restoration work and "eating watermelon" and "only liquor", and including activities that go hand to the next generation have.
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