Earthen bell frogs have been made as folk toys in Japan.

This earthen bell cailed dorei in Japanese is a frog shaped bell made of unglazed pottery. It makes a sound clang-clang by a bean-sized ball which is put in the pottery.Earthen bells were folk toys or good luck charms in Edo period.

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Don't you think that the frog desighned wooden toy is Gastric brooding frog?

This is a frog desighned wooden toy in Japan. She wears a straw raincoat called Mino in Japanese. And she has a baby frog in her stomach. The red cloth under the baby means it is an amulet to avoid danger. It's like Gastric brooding frog which had lived in Australia. It is said that the species became extinct in 1983.

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I'm wondering if it is Montane brown frog.

I consider this frog item made of plastic material Montane brown frog. But I don't know whether it is true or not. It's just

a money box. Currently the species are in spawning season in Japan. The kind of frog has been dedicated to religious services.

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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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This is an Az-zulecha Frog made in Portugal.

This frog ornament is made by Portuguese traditional tile art named Az-zulecha. Az-zlercha means mosaic piece in Arabic lunguage. The tequnic of Portuguese Az-zulecha was imported from Sevilla in Spain where it had been brought by Muslim in the Middle Ages.Currently we can find various Az-zlech ornaments. This frog is one of them. By the way what specie of frog is the model of this frog? May be it is living in Portugal. Don't you think it is a frog like Iberian Water Frog by a following illustration, do you?

illustrted by Masru Shibata

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Frog designed pottery for mosquito coil incense stick

This is a frog designed pottery which we put mosquito coil insense stick in. In Japan pig designed pottery was popular for the  same ways, but I found and bought the froggy one in Tokyo in 1980's. It was a popular product and not expensive.

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“A flower vase with a frog formed object”collection

 

These are antique flowe vases. We can see at least one frog on each of them. A frog and a flower need water for living.

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A frog bringer of good luck

They were made in Shigaraki pottery in Japan. They are bringers of good luck for business.