Okiku dolls, doll's strange that hair can Aft

Okiku doll is one of the most terkeal dolls in Japan (even worldwide), this doll is famous not because of its shape, but because of the mystery that enveloped him. This doll's hair continues to elongate as a human hair.

A Japanese researcher even suggested that the results of forensic tests that were grown hair is exactly the same doll with the hair in children aged 10 years.

Okiku name is taken from a child who was playing with a doll with a size of 40 cm high, dressed in a kimono with black eyes like beads and thick hair. Okiku doll has been in the temple in the city Iwamizawa Mannenji Hokkaido Prefecture since 1938.

This doll was originally purchased in 1918 by a young man named Eikichi Suzuki in Sapporo, where he saw a beautiful Japanese doll with a Kimono. Eikichi bought this doll for her sister who is 2 years old named Okiku, this child loved this doll and play it every day.

But unfortunately, Okiku died shortly afterwards of a fever. Then at his funeral, family want to put a doll into his coffin, but somehow they forgot.

The girl's family then put the doll on the household altar and pray for every day in order to commemorate Okiku.

Some time later, they saw the hair begins to grow. According to this story is the spirit of the girl who took refuge inside the doll.

In 1938 the family moved to shakalin Suzuki, doll Okiku Mannenji finally deposited in a temple in Hokkaido. According to the priest at the temple, a traditional Japanese doll is always short-haired, he also confirmed that the doll's hair continues to elongate Okiku, although the cut and hold a regular basis, but the hair grows.

According to the temple, this traditional doll originally had short cropped hair, but over time continue to grow about 25 cm long, up to the knee doll, although the doll's hair is cut regularly.

Until now, each year on each December 21 in a particular month, the temple Mannenji held the doll's hair-cutting ritual. 

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