Okiagari-koboshi or Okiagari-kobōshi (起き上がり小法師, getting-up little priest) is a Japanese traditional doll.
The toy is made from papier-mâché and is designed so that its weight causes it to return to an upright position if it is knocked over.[1]
Okiagari-kobōshi is considered a good-luck charm and a symbol of perseverance and resilience.[2]
The makers of the earliest okiagari-kobōshi likely modeled them after a Chinese toy called Budaoweng (不倒翁; not-falling-down old man) that is similarly weighted.
One kind of Daruma doll
works on the same principle as okiagari-kobōshi and is sometimes
referred to by that name; whenever it is thrown down, it rights itself.[7] This depiction of the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma
likely arose in connection with a legend that says that he once
meditated for nine years, which caused his legs to either atrophy or
fall off.[8]
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