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Just make a reservation that in the Japanese village of Nagoro live and people, but they’re getting smaller and smaller because it’s tiny a settlement lost in a mountainous region of western Japan is gradually dying out. But rag dolls in human growth, on the contrary, demonstrate an increase in numbers.
There is no mysticism in this, the mysterious dolls are very different and very similar to living people, appeared here not on their own and even not by magic. They are made by a resident of this villages of Ayano Tsukimi.
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This unusual story began, somewhat similar to a puppet a theater or even a fairy tale almost twenty years ago when Tsukimi in in order to scare away from the garden the birds pecking the seeds of crops, made scarecrow using his father’s clothes for him. And she I tried to create a doll as plausible as possible so that the birds do not Guessed that this is not really a man, but a scarecrow. The result exceeded all her expectations, because the neighbor, having accepted scarecrow for a neighbor, even greeted him.
Today, the craftswoman, who is already over 70 years old, recalls that incident with a smile, but very respectfully, believing that he helped her understand the main thing: in this way you can create large dolls, very similar to people. Since Ayano never saw her grandmother and grandfather, and mother lost very early, her next dolls became it was they, and she tried to make them very similar to her close relatives. Thanks to this, the woman came to the conclusion that with the help of makeup you can still paint the dolls face, thereby making them even more realistic. And so it went …
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As the village of Nagoro gradually died out, Ayano caught fire the idea is to keep here “life” at least theatrical. For example, in primary school, which has long been closed due to lack of in the village of children, the craftswoman settled twelve students. To the village looked more alive as it was once remembered by the living people are here, she creates men and women, old people and old women – and arranges them depending on the situation. For example, on a river with fishing rod – a fisherman, on the bench a couple – lovers, peasants – for work, hunter – in the forest, the villagers are waiting for the bus at the bus stop, there are dolls even planted on a tree, there are funny group the scene.
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In general, the village continues to “live”, since today day in it there are several hundred such “inhabitants-observers.” Just so many inhabitants were once in this village, when the village flourished, and almost three hundred of it able-bodied residents engaged in dam construction and forestry they worked at the factory, and their children went to the local school.
By the way, the Russians for some reason believe that endangered villages are a characteristic feature of only Russia, and in Japan, in their opinion, every piece of land is taken into account: the country is small, and the population huge. But, as we see, this is far from the case: the bulk Japanese, especially young people, prefer to live in large cities, and the villages at the same time, as in our country, simply die out, obliterating with faces of the earth. And the fact that Ayano Tsukimi supports at least some a semblance of life in Nagoro, unique to Japan as well as to everything of the world.
And this uniqueness attracts tourists and journalists here, thanks to which we can also get acquainted with this amazing craftswoman and her theatrical village – at least for snapshots and videos.
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