Kodama (木霊) poseable art doll [PREORDER]

**This Iisting is for a PREORDER item. Production will start after the order is placed. Estimated production time: two months, but it can vary depending on the current amount of commissions in process**

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ABOUT THE ART DOLL:

This listing is for a handmade, poseable kodama (木霊) art doll. It stands about 26cm tall.

The head, leaf mask, hands and feet are 3D printed and painted with acrylics.

The body is hand-sewn using faux fur fabrics. This sculpture is poseable and can adopt different poses due to its inner armature made with plastic ball and socket pieces.

Due to the hand making process, the final product may differ a bit in colors from the one in the pictures. Each creation is unique.

This Gingko kodama original version will be limited to 3 available. Other versions with other fabrics/colors may be available in the future.

**Note this is not a toy but a collector’s piece of art that must be handled with care as it is delicate. A bad use of it can damage the whole piece and repairing it can be difficult.**

ABOUT KODAMA (木霊) IN JAPANESE FOLKLORE (extracted from Yokai.com by Matthew Meyer):

"Deep in the mountainous forests of Japan, the souls of the trees are animated as spirits called kodama (木霊). These souls wander outside of their hosts, tending to their groves and maintaining the balance of nature. Kodama are rarely ever seen, but are often heard—particularly as echoes that take just a little longer to return than they should. When they do appear, they resemble faint orbs of light in the distance; or occasionally a tiny, funny shaped vaguely humanoid figure. A kodama’s life force is directly tied to the tree it inhabits; if either the tree or the kodama dies, the other cannot live.

Kodama are revered as gods of the trees and protectors of the forests. They bless the lands around their forest with vitality, and villagers who find a kodama-inhabited tree honor it by marking it with a sacred rope known as a shimenawa. Occasionally, very old trees will bleed when cut, and this is regarded as a sign that a kodama is living inside. Cutting down such an ancient tree is a grave sin, and can bring down a powerful curse, causing a prosperous community to fall into ruin."

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