Once you fulfil the resolution, paint in the other eye. People visit Kawagoe Kitain every year to have their old daruma burned and to purchase new ones at the many stalls selling dolls of all ...

TAKASAKI, Gunma Prefecture—Thousands of daruma dolls, symbols of good luck and perseverance, were given a fiery ceremonial send-off at a Zen Buddhist temple here on Jan. 15. A towering pile of ...