At Katsuo-ji Temple, Daruma dolls watch from every corner. They peer between tree branches, cluster around altars, and dot winding pathways, flashes of bright red among ...

A 1933 article about Frida Kahlo, which resurfaced a few years ago, was met with a collective eye roll: “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art” ran the headline ...

Disney has teamed up with Mattel on two new “Disney Collector” edition dolls. First unveiled at the New York Toy Fair, the limited-edition release features 12-inch dolls of Snow White and the ...

A doll is a gorgeous, cute character friend to a little girl. Her name is so beautiful that it describes everything about her. She's feminine, she's pretty, and she's everything a little girl wants of ...

Maureen Dowd has been profiling the rich, famous and powerful for the New York Times since the 1980s. As she writes in her new collection, “Notorious,” “I’ve always been fascinated by how ...

The festival is one of Japan’s three largest daruma doll markets, featuring around 300 street stalls offering dolls in various sizes and styles. When choosing your daruma doll at the Jindaiji Temple ...

We lost a brave soldier and a true art lover." Commissioned into the Poona Horse regiment in June 1958, he played a significant role during the Battle of Phillora in the 1965 war, where he was ...

FUTABA, Fukushima Prefecture--A centuries-old fair featuring Daruma dolls returned to this town on Jan. 7 for the first time since the triple meltdown at the nearby Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant ...