Yuko-chan and the Daruma doll

By Sunny Seki

Subjects: Japan, fiction, People with disabilities, Dolls, fiction, Bodhidharma dolls, Buddhist monasteries, Orphans, fiction, Blind, Fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, Blind, fiction, People with disabilities, fiction, History, Dolls

Description: After the 1783 eruption of Japan's Mount Asama destroys crops in nearby villages, a orphaned blind girl who lives at the Daruma Temple in Takasaki invents a doll representing a famed Buddhist monk and his teachings about resilience.