Large Wound Thread Ball with Colorful Embroidered Stars pine wood carving His backside shows a hairline

His backside shows a hairline crack running vertically

I have looked and looked but found no other matador doll out there as wonderful as this one

along with the news that Dieterich was not feeling well and the Rich Boatman's wife was dead

whose black hat and coat and smiling

Large Wound Thread Ball with Colorful Embroidered Stars pine wood carving His backside shows a hairlineI didn't know it when I found it it just looked like a lovely folk art wonder to me! but I believe this is a Japanese Temari ball. From what I've learned, these originated in China and were introduced to Japan around the 7th century A. D., becoming a folk art form and craft, originally constructed from kimono remnants and later thread, with the brilliant colors of the thread symbolic of wishing the recipient a brilliant and happy life. I'm really not