Kyushu 2023 - Dazaifu Doll Museum

After lunch, I decided I wanted to visit the Doll Museum, which we had coupons for! I am not a fan of dolls, but I thought a Japanese doll museum was something rather unique to see instead of visiting more gallery and museums. So we used our coupon to get a small discount, and headed to the entrance. 

The doll museums was actually underground at the basement.... I wonder why, lol. Was it to stop the dolls from coming up at night? Kidding! Anyway, the entrance down was rather cute, lined with drawing of dolls. 

I love these simple Japanese drawings. I would often take photos of them when I see such unique art. I find that Japanese people treasure uniqueness a lot more than other people. 

The doll museum display started of with some explanation of Tenjin. There are train station and town area named after it. So apparently he is a famous guy here. And he is also often seen sitting on a cow.

Here were so many type of dolls and figurine of him here. 

The museum path then leads into a hall of the story of Tenjin. 

Here, every display tells a story of a chapter of life of Tenjin, from his birth, till his death. I will do a separate post just on the whole chapter! Yes, I actually took every single display's photo. The reason I think I am fascinated with Japanese doll museums might be the Japanese fabric that they use for the dolls. I love fabric, so I find it interesting to see the beautiful designs on them, especially in Japan.

After the hall of Tenjin, which consist of hall the museum, the other half is more on cultural dolls. 

It was nice that there were explanation in English!

I really like this museum as it was kinda like dolls and figurines, and some of the figurines were made of ceramic or clay, another materials that I love.

So many lovely dolls!

Above might have been made of wood.

The details of each was just lovely.

So elegant.

Wooden doll that looked kinda like birds. I think these were also a kinda of messenger of the gods. 

Nearer to the end, there were even live sized dolls. I didn't like these as much cause they kinda scares me, especially the long hairs. Those always reminded me of Japanese ghost. My father has a Japanese doll in his room which I hate, but at the same time fascinated by it. I am always suspicious that their hair are made from real human hair... I suspect that one day that doll would eventually belong to me....