Daruma
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Daruma are used for making wishes. You black in one eye with ink when you make the wish, and when the wish comes true, you colour in the other eye. I don’t know what it means when the paints cracks and starts to fall off: perhaps that all consequences of your wish have faded.
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Posted to Photographs • 2004.11.28 (Sun) • 21:41
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Posted by riccard0 2004.11.29, 01:10
And if the wish didn’t comes true…?
Posted by chloe 2004.11.29, 13:06
lol… cute. hey, i was just browsing through 2004.bloggies.com … well congrats on the win. =)
Posted by jon 2004.11.30, 17:36
How big is this daruma?
Posted by citadel 2005.10.12, 02:02
hi , i am an engineer and i served my apprenticeship with a family ran engineering firm , where the son studied his business studies in japan . When he finished he brang a DARUMA home with him to give the company good luck(they kept it in our main foyer), 10 months latert the firm went into receivership and closed down .
Posted by Bonnie 2006.02.10, 12:18
I have 2, the eyes pop out and they open up. 1 has a set of dice and the other has 2 of the 7 Gods inside. Am I lucky or what?
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