Okiku doll is one of the most terkeal dolls in Japan (even worldwide), this doll is not well known because of its shape, but because of the mystery which enveloped him. This doll hair stretches like human hair.
A Japanese researchers even revealed that the results of forensic tests that were grown hair is exactly the same doll with hair at the age of 10 years.
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Okiku name is taken from a child who was playing with a doll with a size of 40 cm height, dressed in a kimono with black eyes like beads and bushy 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 doll with Japanese Kimono. Eikichi bought this doll for 2-year-old sister named Okiku, this child was very fond of dolls and play it every day.
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But unfortunately, Okiku died shortly afterwards of a fever. Later at his funeral, family want to put the doll in his coffin but somehow they forget.
The girl's family then put the doll in the household altar and prayed for every day in commemoration of Okiku.
Some time later, they saw the hair begins to grow. According to this story is the spirit of the girl who took refuge in a doll.
In 1938 the family moved to shakalin Suzuki, doll Okiku Mannenji finally deposited in the temple in Hokkaido. According to the priest at the temple, a traditional Japanese dolls are always short-haired, he also confirmed that stretches Okiku doll hair, although the cut continues on a regular basis, but his hair to grow steadily.
According to the temple, was originally a traditional doll with hair cut short, but as time continues to grow about 25 cm long, up to the knee doll, although this doll hair cut regularly.
Until now, each year in each of 21 in a particular month, the temple held Mannenji ritual cutting of hair of the doll.
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