Okiku ningyo : a mysterious japanese doll.  

Hello Naisan,
This doll is in the Mannenji temple in Manji, and this story is true. Her hair are cut every year publicly : it's a mystery for me !

wow i better research this one out. thanks for the info. hope i could go there

You have broken your sister's doll ? I have never be afraid by dolls -- except by Chucky --. This one is a sort of living doll, but does not scary me. I think that I will see her if I go in Japan. It's a curiosity : is there a soul in her, I can't say.

I just saw the picture of the doll and I find very disturbing and scary. she looks alive.

I think that your grand mother was trying to economize money on toys, and that she succeeded . Or maybe she had a voodoo doll when she was a child ? Or maybe she was right because this Japanese doll seems possessed ?

well I don't think she wanted to economize money on toys because she is a very religious person; Catholic. You are right this Japanese doll seems possessed. My granny grew up in a farm and she said that there was this church on town that has the statue of a saint; I can't remember the name any way she said that his hair would keep on growing no matter how many times the priests tried to cut it would keep on growing, maybe it was a hoax.
But this doll was analyzed and the hair was indeed the hair from a human

Saint Hairry ? I knew a priest who had really bad time to remove every day underwear that pious women at an hundred miles around were pinning on a statue of Saint Antony in his church to get pregnant .
For the hair, I think that it should be interesting to compare the DNA of the doll's hair with the DNA of the girl -- if it's still possible --.

hmm? I can't remember. I will ask my mother when I see her and post it on this section.
Wow underwear I couldn't stop laughing when I read your post. Well I guess some people are very religious and would do everything to get pregnant That would be a great idea to compare the DNA of each one I wonder if the church would allow it that is if they still have the statue. The last time I spoke to my granny on the phone she told me somebody stole a bunch of things from the church.

I believe that it depends of the height of the statue. The Japanese doll seems very easy to steal. A statue or a doll with growing hair is kitschy, even if you don't need a wig . Churches are more and more closed here because of these stupid robberies.

Hello MagicalBubbles,

I also did a search. This doll is mentioned in some books before the internet (by example in "Modern mysteries of the world: strange events of the twentieth century" by Janet and Colin Bord, Grafton Books, London, 1989, p. 340) ; there is also some tourist information about her. At the end of this blog, two travelers are speaking with a monk of the temple about this doll :

http://japanonfoot.blogsp...

All I can say is that this doll is not a hoax. It's hard to believe, and I will like to see her too.
Thank you for your response.

There are many strange stories about dolls, and some dolls are really devil's dolls, but I agree with you that this one is more mysterious than dangerous.
The idea of putting these poor dolls in a temple is great, and shintoist have also some special ceremonies to purify the dolls and remove the spirits from them. However they don't accept teddy bears in temples and mine had a spirit too
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