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11-28-2011, 10:50 PM
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Japanese Pregnant Doll
I was looking for some cool japanese toys that I would buy for my daughter and came across this. In the 18th and 19th centuries, sideshow carnivals known as misemono were a popular form of entertainment for the sophisticated residents of Edo (present-day Tokyo). The sideshows featured a myriad of educational and entertaining attractions designed to evoke a sense of wonder and to satisfy a deep curiosity for the mysteries of life. One popular attraction was the pregnant doll. Although it is commonly believed that these dolls were created primarily to teach midwives how to deliver babies, evidence suggests they were also used for entertaining purposes.  · |
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11-29-2011, 07:14 AM
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Re: Japanese Pregnant Doll
Those are really cool, and never seen any quite like that with such detail. Wonder if they still produce them? I would love to add one to my doll collection. Great post!  |
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11-30-2011, 03:16 AM
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Re: Japanese Pregnant Doll
Mattel makes a pregnant Barbie and Midge, which you can find on ebay, but, it just has a belly with a magnet that goes over the baby. She's either pregnant or not. It doesn't have several interchangeable stages of pregnancy or an umbilical cord.
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