Kokeshi Japan

Yoko sato (yoko sato: 1942-) System: togatta system. Master: eitaro sato. Disciple: [person] born on july 16, 1942 in ohara, chiba prefecture. My parents run a poultry business. In 1968, he married eitaro sato, who was working for nippon steel pipe in kawasaki city at that time, and his eldest son naohide was born in july 1969. In august 1969, her husband eitaro decided to return to the woodland industry due to the enthusiastic persuasion of ryosuke tatsumi no mori, a kokeshi shop in tokyo, so the family decided to return to togatta, the hometown of her husband eitaro. Eitaro began to produce kokeshi again. From 1978, under the guidance of eitaro, yoko also began to grind wood, and from the new year of 1980, she began to sell naosuke sato-type kokeshi under the name of yoko. Around 1981, the eldest son naohide also made kokeshi for a while, but naohide soon left togatta and stopped production. Work] it was a kokeshi that had already reached a certain level since the time it was published in 1980.

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