越前竹人形 Echizen-take-ningyou Echizen Take-ningyo dolls
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Echizen Take-ningyo is a doll made of long jointed bamboo or moso bamboo,
which are indigenous plants of Echizen district. Well used straight and
curved lines of bamboo give elegant taste to the doll. Around 1952, Yasutaka
Morota and his younger brother, who had been making flower frames out of
bamboo, hit upon an idea of making a doll using odd bamboo pieces, and after
many trials they finally made some dolls based on themes from kabuki, kyogen
and noh theater, which is said to be the biginning of this doll. Their dolls
were awarded many nationwide prizes, which led to the establishment of Fukui’s
new folk craft, Echize Take-nungyo. It was Yasutaka’s son Reimei who made
this doll a perfect work of art. Reimei was awarded many prizes including
the Japanese Calture Promotion Association Prize in 2003. Reimei’s dolls, displayed at Echizen Take-ningyo no Sato in Sakai County, Fukui Pref., are lovely but somewhat fragile and nostalgic.
which are indigenous plants of Echizen district. Well used straight and
curved lines of bamboo give elegant taste to the doll. Around 1952, Yasutaka
Morota and his younger brother, who had been making flower frames out of
bamboo, hit upon an idea of making a doll using odd bamboo pieces, and after
many trials they finally made some dolls based on themes from kabuki, kyogen
and noh theater, which is said to be the biginning of this doll. Their dolls
were awarded many nationwide prizes, which led to the establishment of Fukui’s
new folk craft, Echize Take-nungyo. It was Yasutaka’s son Reimei who made
this doll a perfect work of art. Reimei was awarded many prizes including
the Japanese Calture Promotion Association Prize in 2003. Reimei’s dolls, displayed at Echizen Take-ningyo no Sato in Sakai County, Fukui Pref., are lovely but somewhat fragile and nostalgic.
