This item was purchased new and has been carefully stored in a dark place, so it is in very beautiful condition ❁⃘*.゜ It is 9cm tall. Osamu Sugawara (1952-) Lineage: Naruko Teachers: Tatsuo Oishi / Mamoru Kawamura Disciples: Kozue Sato / Sachiko Saito / Yu Okamoto [Biography] Born on October 18, 1952, as the third son of Shinichiro Sugawara, a farmer. In December 1971, he began training in woodturning under Tatsuo Oishi at the Oishi Workshop in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, and later moved to Honjo City, Akita Prefecture (present-day Yurihonjo City). From December 1987, with the permission of Mamoru Kawamura, he began making Honjo kokeshi dolls by observation, while also producing the wooden bases for lacquerware. His motivation for making kokeshi dolls came from a senior who had trained in kokeshi making in Naruko during his woodturning training in Kamakura, a friend at his workplace who joined the Yokohama Kokeshi Association, and his experience of being moved by the "Kokeshi Old Masterpieces Exhibition" held at the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum in April 1978. He is said to have first turned and painted a kokeshi doll in 1981, but the existence of his first work is unknown. In "Kokeshi Spring and Autumn, No. 111," the situation of this period and kokeshi dolls from the same period to around 1995 are introduced by Toshio Takahashi. After that, he improved the completeness of his kokeshi dolls while being exposed to the actual works of Tetsuzo Kitahara and Seitaro Kawamura. He has also restored the kokeshi dolls of Ryosuke Fukuda, a Naruko-lineage craftsman from Yokote. From 2015, he has been teaching Kozue Sato in the same city how to make kokeshi dolls. In addition, from June 2019, he has been instructing Sachiko Saito in woodturning and painting, and from the end of 2021, he has been instructing Yu Okamoto, and these two have also begun to produce works that inherit the Honjo kokeshi style. #kokeshi #traditional kokeshi #Osamu Sugawara #Naruko lineage #Tatsuo Oishi #Mamoru Kawamura #Kozue Sato #Sachiko Saito #Yu Okamoto #traditional crafts #traditional craft #wooden kokeshi