Shimofusa toy of frog motif

paper doll frog

clay face frog

tumbling doll frog

We show you folk toy called Shimofusa gangu. Shimofusa means the north area of Chiba prefecture and gangu means toy. It was named by Setsutaro Matsumoto. He passed away in 2004 when he was 101 years old. He had created a lot of Shimofusa toy through his life. He mainly had created paper doll, clay face, and tumbling doll (=daruma) including each frog motif one.

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Frog motif spining top

This frog item is a spining top. The spining top is a folk toy called Edo goma in Japanese which has created since the Edo period in Japan. Masaaki Hiroi（1935－2019）was the outstanding folk toy creator. He had made a lot of attractive spining tops icluding frog motif one.

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「カエ～ル大学」http://kaeru-kan.com/kayale-u

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コトバデフリカエル　https://kaeru-kan.cocolog-nifty.com/kotobadefurikaeru/