Name: Designer's Daruma Black
Brand: 今井だるま店NAYA
Price: 727.0 CNY
Availability: InStock

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#5 - 20 cm

#2 - 12 cm

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.

A small 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.

Three Imai Daruma Naya Designer’s Daruma Japanese papier-mache dolls — one black, one red and one white, each featuring a decorative pattern of eyebrows and beard and a three swirl lines across its body.

Two facing Imai Daruma Naya Designer’s Daruma Japanese papier-mache dolls — one red (left) and one black(right), each featuring a decorative pattern of eyebrows and beard and a three swirl lines in white across the body. The red features Japanese katakana for “korobu x 7” meaning to fall seven times, while the black features “Okiru x 8,” meaning to get up 8 times.

Two facing Imai Daruma Naya Designer’s Daruma Japanese papier-mache dolls — one black (left) and one white (right), each featuring a decorative pattern of eyebrows and beard and a three swirl lines in white across the body. The black features Japanese katakana for “korobu x 7” meaning to fall seven times, while the white features “Okiru x 8,” meaning to get up 8 times.

The Designer’s Daruma brings minimalist beauty to a traditional Japanese concept. A lucky talisman to inspire and encourage, and a contemporary objet d’art.

Three flowing lines on each side of the lucky doll’s body symbolize the passage of time from the past to the future. Poetic Japanese word equations — “Korobu x 7” and “Okiru x 8” — allude to the wise Japanese proverb: “Fall down seven times, get up eight.” To fall is not to fail, it’s an opportunity to get up for a fresh start. It’s a message to never give up hope and that courage and strength lies in resilience and perseverance.

Designer’s Daruma are made with recycled paper and hand-painted with environmentally friendly paint in bold matt colors. Each one is a unique piece of art conceived by Designer 2104, a designer renowned for revitalizing traditional and cultural objects in Japan with new and innovative concepts.

See our White version for another monochrome look, and take a look at our Designer's Daruma Red for more vibrancy or our Platinum Designer's Daruma for gleaming gold and silver.

Material: recycled paper, clay soil, paint
Sizes by height: #2 - 12 cm, #5 - 20 cm
Package dimensions: #2 - 12 x 12 x 12 cm, #5 - 19.5 x 18.5 x 22.5 cm
Made in Japan