Narigama poseable art doll [PREORDER]

**This Iisting is for a PREORDER item. Production will start after the order is placed. Estimated production time: two months, but it can vary depending on the current amount of commissions in process**

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ABOUT THE ART DOLL:

This listing is for a handmade, fully poseable Narigama poseable art doll. It stands about 33cm tall (including the flames) and weights 500g.

The head, limbs and flames are 3D printed and painted with acrylics.

The body is hand-sewn using faux fur fabrics. This sculpture is poseable and can adopt different poses due to its inner armature made with plastic ball and socket pieces (please, note that elbows, knees, wrists, ankles and fingers are not jointed).

Due to the hand making process, the final product may differ a bit in colors from the one in the pictures. Each creation is unique.

**Note this is not a toy but a collector’s piece of art that must be handled with care as it is delicate. A bad use of it can damage the whole piece and repairing it can be difficult.**

ABOUT NARIGAMA IN JAPANESE FOLKLORE (extracted from Yokai.com by Matthew Meyer):

"Narigama are a tsukumogami of kama, iron kettles or cauldrons used to cook rice in old Japanese kitchens. They have long arms and legs. Their bodies are covered in dark hair as if wearing an animal’s pelt. Flames lick the sides of the kettle which either serves as their head.

A narigama’s most amazing talent is the ability to predict the future. As its name suggest, it begins to emit sounds when it is heated over a fire. When the water inside begins to boil, a narigama will begin to ring or cry like an animal. Depending on the sound that it emits, it is possible to know whether the weather will be rainy or fair. An onmyōji or a priest can even divine good and bad fortunes based on the sounds the narigama makes as its contents are boiled.

Illustrations of narigama appear in some of the oldest hyakki yagyō emaki picture scrolls, although they appear without a name or description. Later, Toriyama Sekien included it in Hyakki tsurezure bukuro along with a brief history. According to Sekien, the narigama was first described in the Hakutaku zu, a record of all the supernatural creatures in the world describing their strengths and weaknesses.

At the Kibitsu Shrine in Okayama Prefecture, priests still practice a folk ritual called narukama which involves boiling a kettle and examining the sounds it emits to predict good and bad fortunes. Toriyama Sekien may have based his description on the narukama ritual.

Little is known about the true nature of narigama, however a number of theories exist. They are often depicted cavorting with other tsukumogami in illustrations of the night parade of one hundred demons."

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