The Okiku Doll- Japan
The okiku doll- Japan Quite a long time ago, in Japan, a young boy named Eikichi Suzuki had decided to gift his little sister, Okiku, a doll. The doll had a quite simple appearance. It was dressed in a simple red kimono and its hair was short( basically it had a Bob cut, the Japanese called it a okappa). Eventually, Okiku grew quite fond of it. It was then when the disaster struck. Okiku had caught a very severe cold and then died out of pneumonia(that's what most people say). Her family was overcome with grief. The Japanese bear a tradition of burying things that were significant to people along with their bodies. But for some reason, Okiku's family did not burn the doll with her body. Probably because they weren't allowed to do so due to the materials ir was made of(You couldn't bury things made of plastic, glass and metals). The family decided to place the doll in their house. It was extremely strange to see, that the Bob cut of the doll had slowly become s...
