This cute couple were given to me by the wonderful people at Kowa Pharmaceuticals. These are Yubi ningyou or finger dolls. Apparently there are more of these and other Kowa frogs than there are people in Japan. If you want to find out more about them you can visit this website (in Japanese) or wait until my book comes out.
Not quite Idle Idol enough but I like these signs a lot. The eyes madly rotate round and round outside these opticians. Megane means glasses in Japanese.
Our new book ‘Idle Idol’ published by Mark Batty Publisher is due out next year in April. Its packed full of info on Japans wonderful 3D characters, learn their names, origins and stories. For a sneak peak visit our Flickr set and check our new site www.idleidol.net in the coming months.
