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Kokeshi 153
Sadao Kishi, recipient of the Prime Minister's Award,
Kishi-san was born in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture in 1932 and produced an array of creative Kokeshi dolls until his passing in 1998. In 1950 he started creating Sosaku Kokeshi. During his career, he received numerous awards, winning the Prime Minister’s Award and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award (METI). He is credited with being one of the major influences of the ‘Sosaku Kokeshi Movement’, gaining recognition for the dolls as a popular and valid art form. In 1969 his Kokeshi entitled: “Spirit of Wheat” was purchased by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess. In 1970, he dedicated his work to the Enshrining Festival of the Meiji Shrine, representing his Kokeshi focused on the Korobe Gorge golden brown Wheat which was not only a central theme and the main agricultural enterprise in his native prefecture.
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