So my wife and I recently went to the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.... in addition to acquiring a taste for Japanese Genmai tea, she took pictures of some Kokeshi dolls for sale. Her mom saw the dolls after the pictures were posted on facebook, so we started shopping around on ebay.
I found this set absolutely awesome, but somehow held back from bidding:
completed item linkThese don't have the cute styling we were looking for, but they are totally fascinating to me, particularly the color of the skin, waviness of the hair, and facial features, including the full lips and broad noses:
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