Kabuki actor


Kabuki is traditional entertainment of Japan.
"Sukeroku" is one of the programs of kabuki.
Hero's name is also the same.
Sukeroku is the masterpiece of classic kabuki.
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Dojin

Dojin
A keiraku (meridian) doll used for training in a acupuncture.
The doll is marked with 14 energy paths and pressure points. The keiraku doll originates from the Chinese dojin doll.
The dojin doll is scarved with energy paths and pressure points,and is devised that when the acupuncture needle hits the pressure points,mercury seeps out.
According to records,these dolls were brought to Japan during the Muromachi period,but Japan began making their own keiraku dolls with the spread of acupuncture therapy in the beginning of the Edo period and they became widely used in general practices.
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Tea carrying doll / Tea Server Robot (Chahakobi-Ningyo)


"Tea carrying doll" is carried tea to the guest when the tea cup that boiled the billy is put on the tray, and stops when the guest takes the tea cup.
When the guest drinks tea, and he puts the emptying tea cup on the tray, the tea cup is carried to former place turning around and he stops.
He is controlled with the spring, the cogwheel, the cam, and the string.
Hanzo Hosokawa of "Mechanism master" designed in 1796.
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