Japanese traditional crafts
Hakata dolls/Tsutomu Tsushida




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■ Hakata Dolls by Tsutomu Tsushida

Tsutomu Tsushida
Tsutomu Tsushida has been making Hakata dolls with highly drawing technique and beautiful aesthetic sense. Mr.Tsushida's Hakata doll is extremely beautiful that are drawn most carefully with proficient skills by many Japanese fine brushes. Moreover, Tsutomu Tsushida has been making a delicate and cute painted Hakata doll.
Japanese woman has a peculiar feeling when considering small things as cute. One of the doll making artists who are producing "Utsukushiki things" that Sei-Shonagon wrote as anything small (Utsukushiki things) is cute in "Makura no Soushi" over 1000 years ago."Utsukushiki things" means beautiful in contemporary Japan.
Mr. Tsushida makes sure large size traditional Hakata doll called "beautiful woman (Geisha)" and "Kurodabishi (samurai)". Mr. Tsushida can be said not only as a traditional craft of Hakata dolls, but also a doll making artist who inherits the unique aesthetic sense of old times Japanese.

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Geisha doll/Fuji-no-kotobuki
Drawing design depends on each time.
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Samurai doll/Kuroda-bushi
Drawing design  depends on each time.

Lately News■Hakata doll in zodiac animals
The zodiac sign is wild boar at 2019.It turned from a dog to wild boar.

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Wild bore of Hakata dolls by Mr.Tsushida making.
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A dog of Hakata dolls by Mr.Tsushida making last year.
 
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Ariake
 
Shun-ran
 
Taishi
 
 Yuya
 
Owl
 kai-so
 
Miyabi
 
Chitose
 
Genji-Monogatari
 
Jizo
Kantenkichi
 
Mizuho
 
 Kai-awase
 
Otogi-neko
 
Cat and dog

Tsutomu Tsushida
 Hakata Dolls Japanese Traditional master-craftman