From a good luck charm for children to a talisman for sexual potency and childbirth, the daruma has been many things to many people throughout history.
Artist and ukiyo-e collector Toshihiko Isao shares insights into the folk beliefs and art forms that ordinary people turned to as they battled epidemics in past...
"Originally, dolls are talismans. After a year of COVID-19, we would would like it to become a world where Minister Kono and baseball star Masahiro Tanaka...
The history of the naked festival dates back to the Muromachi period (about the mid-1330s to mid-1570s). On the Lunar New Year, the temple would hold...
