Imai Daruma NAYA

A white Imai Daruma Naya Designer Neko cat Japanese manekineko papier-mache doll, featuring black patches and whiskers and raising its right paw to beckon good luck.

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Designer's Daruma Red From $55.00

A black Imai Daruma Naya Designer Neko cat Japanese manekineko papier-mache doll, featuring white patches and whiskers and raising its right paw to beckon good luck.

Designer's Neko Black From $55.00

A shiny, gold Platinum Designer’s Daruma lucky doll, made by Imai Daruma Naya. The rotund doll features decorative patterns for its eyebrows and beard, and black curvy lines across its body.

Platinum Designer's Daruma $225.00

Takasaki, Gunma

Home of Japan’s artisanal daruma dolls, with over two hundred years of heritage

About Us

Our Process

Traditional artisanship

Recycled materials

All our daruma are made from recycled paper and cardboard

Individually molded

Recycled paper pulp is fed into molds to create their rotund shapes

Dip coloring

Each daruma is hand-dipped into vats of base-color paint

Natural drying

Daruma are dried in the open air on sticks pushed into straw bundles

Hand painted

Every daruma is painted by our artisans, making each one unique

The Classic

Takasaki Daruma

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Originally made by local farmers as a side business, the vibrant red Takasaki Daruma has a history of over 200 years

They were believed to not only usher in good fortune and grant wishes, but also ward off bad luck and evil

The eyebrows of the Takasaki Daruma are styled as cranes and its beard like a turtle — both symbols of peace and longevity

New Traditions

Objets d'art

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Three Imai Daruma Naya Amabie-sama, lucky creature papier-mache Japanese dolls. Each one has a purple stomach with pink scales, a turquoise head and white face, featuring blue eyes and yellow beak.

Our cutest Special Edition daruma, the Amabie is a magical mythical creature — a harbinger of good health and fortune

A pair of Imai Daruma Naya Platinum Designer Neko cat Japanese manekineko papier-mache dolls — one gold and one silver — both raising their right paws to beckon good luck. The gold features black patches and whiskers, the silver has white patches and whiskers.

The Designer's Daruma collection of collaborations with artists is one of detailed textures and minimalist beauty

A 15-centimeter tall orange Fuku-iri lucky daruma doll, made by Imai Daruma Naya, featuring a rotund body and decorative patterns for eyebrows and beard and white body lines and kanji lettering.

Our Fuku-iri Daruma series offers stunning colors, from sakura pink to regal purple — each symbolic of a different kind of luck

Contemporary Styling

Designer Daruma

Platinum Designer's Neko $225.00

A large black Imai Daruma Naya Designer’s Daruma Japanese papier-mache doll, featuring a pattern of white eyebrows and beard and a three swirl lines across its body.

Designer's Daruma Black From $55.00

Designer's Neko White From $55.00

Platinum Designer's Daruma $225.00

Two large white Imai Daruma Naya Designer’s Daruma Japanese papier-mache dolls, featuring a pattern of white eyebrows and beard and a three swirl lines across its body.

Designer's Daruma White From $55.00

Imai Daruma NAYA is based in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan's center of daruma doll making. All our items are handmade on site.

Imai Daruma NAYA

Shipping details

We endeavor to pack and ship within 7 days of receiving your order and it can take up to 14 days for deliver internationally. Also, our peak season every year is from November to January, so your order may take much longer to process if ordering during this time. Please see our shipping policy for details.

Returns details

We hope you love our daruma and have no need to return one! But if there is an issue, we have a 14-day return policy. Please read our returns policy for details.