{"product_id":"shirakawa-daruma-lucky-daruma-28-daruma-size-φ-h-φ22-28cm","title":"Shirakawa Daruma Lucky Daruma 28 Daruma Size (Φ*H) Φ22*28cm","description":"Size (Φ*H)Φ22*28cm Material: Recycled paper\/aleurone powder\/urethane paint \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \nThe market town that had been formed in front of the gate of Yatsuryu Shrine in Shirakawa City, Fukushima Prefecture since the Kamakura period was developed by the Tokugawa Shogunate and became a new city. The main items sold here were artificial flowers (zara flowers) offered at ancestral graves, so the market came to be called the \"flower market.\" New Year's lucky charms such as daruma dolls, Ebisu Daikoku, and Inari were also sold at the flower market. In 1783, Matsudaira Sadanobu, in order to promote the city, had his official painter Tani Buncho paint a lucky daruma doll featuring a design of \"crane, turtle, pine, bamboo, and plum\" with \"eyebrows as cranes,\" \"beard as turtle,\" \"beard as bamboo,\" and \"ear whiskers with pine and plum.\" Also, the nationally famous and auspicious \"Daruma Daishi\", said to have been painted by Sadanobu himself, is the \"Shirakawa Crane, Turtle, Pine, Bamboo, and Plum Daruma\", which has been loved since the Edo period as a \"daruma for business prosperity\", \"safety of the family\", and \"sure victory\". Daruma come in 18 different sizes, and people would buy these daruma at the first market and offer them to the Shinto altar, then buy a bigger one each year in hopes of prosperity. When making a wish, first fill in the left side of the daruma, and when the wish is fulfilled, fill in the right side. Since then, the \"Shirakawa Daruma\" has become more famous than the \"Flower Market\", and the \"Shirakawa Daruma Market\" is now known nationwide as the number one daruma market in Japan, with 150,000 visitors, about 700 stores, and 150,000 daruma produced, making it the number one daruma market in Japan in both name and reality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eColor: ‎White\u003cbr\u003eManufacturer: ‎Shirakawa Daruma","brand":"Mega Shop Japan","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":49135693627712,"sku":"B019I99A3G","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/2584\/0704\/files\/31VsXO1OjqL._AC_US1200.jpg?v=1718999141","url":"https:\/\/megashopjapan.com\/products\/shirakawa-daruma-lucky-daruma-28-daruma-size-%cf%86-h-%cf%8622-28cm","provider":"Mega Shop Japan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}