TAKASAKI, Gunma — About 10,000 old Japanese daruma dolls were ritually burned during a memorial service for the good-luck talisman figures, which represent the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma, in Takasaki, ...
People, especially business owners, head to the festival to hope for a prosperous year. Daruma dolls originate from the legends of the real-life Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk who may have lived in the ...