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| Tsukimi Ayano smoothed straw dolls in the Scarecrow Village in Nagoro, Japan (REUTERS / Thomas Peter) |
Ageless and can not ripen, the reason for the legendary adventures of the past. But in Nogoro, a small village in southern Japan, no need to stop the aging fountain.
In the village, there's no citizen of growing old. They all look the same since 52 years ago.
Thanks to the cold hand Tsukimi Ayano.
65-year-old woman had no magic potion or magic wand to stop time. All he had was the ability to sew, sew precisely straw dolls.
Ayano first sewing stuffed straw at the age of 13 years. The goal, the scarecrow that often landed in the garden of his house. Ayano make large straw doll similar to his father.
However, things had turned into a hobby functional purpose. Ayano could not stop making straw dolls. Not the usual dolls, Ayano making dolls that are similar to those who live around the house.
He then set the dolls the size of a man around the village, with a pose like the middle man on the move. There were sitting on the porch of the house, standing in the fields, sheltering under a tree, standing in the street or sitting at the bus stop.
"In total, there were only 35 people living in this village. But there are more than 150 dolls straw, "Ayano said, quoted by Reuters.
Nagoro, from the outside it looks like the other villages in Japan. However, when you pay attention to detail, such as rural villages abandoned by its inhabitants dead. Most moved to the city to seek a better life.
At the age of 65 years already, Ayano is one of the youngest populations. Even schools in the past Nagoro closed in 2012, after two of his students pass.
But, Ayano not let his village die. Buildings and houses were abandoned, he was filled with straw doll. Even an empty school building was he content with students and new teachers, all of the straw.
According Ayano do not need special skills in making straw dolls. It only took a pile, rags and newspapers to fill the doll body and a rope to form the parts of his body. Her dress was simple, just a sack which cut into the arm.
Although simple, the work Ayano gets a lot of attention, especially from tourists who want to see the "village scarecrow", so Nagoro called now.
Ayano also happy to welcome the tourists, he will tell the story of each straw doll that he created, while smoothing doll decaying weathered.
Source: viva.co.id
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