Ozaki doll
What is an Ozaki doll?
Osaki Ningyo has been in the Osaki Nishibun district of Kanzaki Town, Saga Prefecture for over 700 years.
It is a pottery doll that has been revived and inherited several times in the flow of the times.
Currently, it has been revived and inherited by the "Ozaki Doll Preservation Society".
According to folklore, a soldier of the Mongol army who was taken prisoner during the Mongol invasion (Battle of Koan)
It is said that the beginning was when a doll was made and screamed in memory of his hometown.
(The technique of pottery was passed on to the local people, and eventually roof tiles, braziers, pottery, etc. were made as Ozaki pottery.
During the Edo period, it was one of the gifts from the Saga domain to the shogunate. )