I looked at the woodwork and lacquer ware and noticed the Lacquer Inkstone Case with …show more content…
The “amagatsu” is clothed like a “Kakashi” (scarecrow), while the “Hoko” is like a stuffed doll. However, both of these words used to mean the same thing. In those days, they were known as “Hoko” which today we call “amagatsu”, and there were also stuffed “amagatsu”. These dolls were used as “katashiro”, which were used when casting spells or curses, for funerals in the Heian era. They became popular as substitutes for bearing the impurities and evil spirits that afflicted children in the Muromachi era. In the Edo era, people displayed these dolls at the “Momo-no-sekku”, one of the Japanese traditional events which wishes the healthy growth of girls, together with dolls for the Girls’ Festival by taking “amagatsu” as the male doll and “Hoko” as a female doll