The Montana Museum of Art & Culture lecture by Alan Scott Pate that was postponed due to blizzard conditions has been rescheduled. Pate will present a free lecture on two rare Japanese Friendship ...

Dr. Sidney Gulick, an American missionary who spent years in Japan, orchestrated a delivery to Japan of 12,739 American dolls, ambassadors of friendship. They arrived in time for Hina Matsuri in 1927.

Interest in black cloth dolls from the Victorian era and early 20th century has grown in the past decade, she said. That’s because of a 2007 exhibit of dolls made from 1870 to 1930, from the ...

Among the folk dolls, "Miharu Ningyo" and "Takasaki Daruma" represent legendary Japanese warriors and heroes. "Hakara Ningyo" from the Edo period (1603-1868) represents a character called "Shojo ...

At Katsuo-ji Temple, Daruma dolls watch from every corner. They peer between tree branches, cluster around altars, and dot winding pathways, flashes of bright red among the hillside forest. The ...