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Daruma

Objects · Rituals

A named weighted votive doll of Japanese goal-rite, often with one eye left unpainted. Not a being, and not every later souvenir figure.

Zen

  • Daruma represents Buddhist traditions.

    Chamberlain seats Daruma as the popular image of Bodhidharma, the Zen patriarch, in toy and votive form — Buddhist-patriarch figure speech, not a generic doll dump.

    from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)

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sources

  • Things Japanese · Basil Hall Chamberlain

    Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese (5th ed. 1905).