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  Thursday  November 4  2004    10: 28 AM

dolls

The "Jap Doll" --Ningyō on the Western Toyshelf 1850-1940


Dolls from Japan were very popular in America and Europe through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On these pages, I have collected illustrations and references that suggest the place of the Japanese doll in the minds of American and European children, and of the adults who bought them toys and moralized those toys.


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