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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 37308, member: 45&quot;]Kokeshi dolls come in two types, <i>traditional</i>, which is what most people associate with the term, and <i>creative</i>.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The creative type of kokeshi developed after World War II, and is just what it sounds like...the artist is free to make a kokeshi doll in whatever form his or her imagination takes.&nbsp; They still conform to the same principal of a turned wood body and head, with no limbs, but after that, pretty much anything goes.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a <i>creative</i> kokeshi, and I would agree, appears to represent a <i>kappa, </i>kind of reptilian water creature, which has a number of different names and incarnations, depending on the region of Japan it comes from.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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