{"product_id":"black-shadow-daruma-kagemi","title":"Black Shadow Daruma 'Kagemi'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBlack daruma doll in glossy enamel with gold eyes and red characters for luck\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack, glossy, with gold eyes and red writing. This daruma is a ceramic doll in a black enamel that shines like lacquer, with the face painted in the traditional black-and-white strokes, a red mouth, both eyes filled in black with gold rings, gold streaks at the shoulders, and the two characters for opening luck brushed in red inside a gold circle on the belly, with gold characters down the sides. Black is the daruma for warding off, and this is the smartest one in the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the daruma for a person who wears black and wants the doll to match.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Kagemi, is the shadow, the dark form, and the black daruma is the one that stands in front of bad luck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe doll is ceramic with a glossy enamel finish, cast hollow with a weighted base, the face painted in the crane-and-tortoise strokes of the Takasaki tradition, the body carrying the two characters for opening luck in a circle and a column of smaller characters at each side, with gold streaks at the shoulders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe daruma is the monk who sat facing a wall for nine years, and the doll is his body with no limbs and a weighted base, so it rights itself when knocked over: seven times down, eight times up. You paint one eye when you set a goal and the other when you reach it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePut it where you will see it every day, on a desk, a shelf or a windowsill, facing into the room, and paint the left eye when you set the goal. Knock it over once to see it stand up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe red on black is the detail: the characters on the belly are the only red on the doll apart from the mouth, inside a gold ring, and they read like a seal on a lacquer box. The gold rings round the eyes catch the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery daruma in the collection is photographed at the same scale, so the pages compare: the single dolls are about the height of a hand, the stacked box taller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDust with a soft cloth; wipe with a damp one if it needs it. Paint the eyes with a brush and black ink or a marker. It is ceramic and it breaks, so keep it off the edge of the shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a room it is a black egg with a white face. From close the belly shows its red seal, the eyes their gold, and the enamel its depth. It is the daruma for a hall table and a person who wants the door guarded.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YONAKU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59207751598428,"sku":"14:200006152#Black","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/black-shadow-daruma-kagemi-1.jpg?v=1790586119","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/black-shadow-daruma-kagemi","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}