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2015/01/22


Dozens of 'Kamishimobina' Dolls from Keiko Inoue Collection

(Jiji Press)



     Kamishimobina dolls are all boys in formal samurai attire called 'kamishimo' and had been given till the start of World War II in Saitama and Gunma Prefectures, north of Tokyo, to couples that had baby girls by their relatives wishing for the girls' happy marriages


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