きめこみにんぎょう

きめこみにんぎょう

Japanese

Alternative spellings	木目込人形 木目込み人形

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kʲime̞ko̞mʲi ɲ̟ĩŋʲɡʲo̞ː]

Noun

きめこみにんぎょう • (kime-komi ningyō)  (historical kana きこみにんぎやう)

1. wooden doll for display, with the cloth of the clothes inserted into cuts in its surface

Synonyms

• 加茂人形(かもにんぎょう) (kamo ningyō)
• 加茂川人形(かもがわにんぎょう) (kamogawa ningyō)

References

• “木目込人形”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014