The origins of the Yabase Doll are traced to when a doll maker from Kyoto set up a pottery establishment in today\u2019s Akita City in 1772\u20131788. A mold was dug up from the pottery\u2019s ruins by villagers from Yabase, and that became the Yabase Doll mold used today.
\nYabase has a Sannou-Hiyoshi shrine and a Tenmangu shrine. Festivals in those shrines became increasingly prosperous in the late Edo period, so Akita\u2019s Kubota castle flourished. Doll shops in the region thrived as there was a custom to decorate a Tenjin doll for the birth of a boy, and a Hina doll for a girl.
\nThe production process has five steps: preparation, mold-making, drying, baking, and painting. The traditional mold-making that involves putting two molds together, and the elaborate hand-painting, add a simple and familiar attractiveness to the clay dolls.
\nThe original forms include the god Tenjin, also affectionately called Oden-tsan, as well as the gods Ebisu and Daikoku, and Oiran\u2019s bride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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