With a population of less than 40 people, village Nagoro has become a unique tourist attraction. Dolls Are CREATED To Replace The LIVES Of The PEOPLE In This City. Ayano Tsukimi human-sized doll for replaces the person who died or moved from the small village of Nagoro, Japan. the roughly 350 residents of the dolls in this short film from National Geographic's Short Film Showcase Ayano Tsukimi knowing the best way to make new friends: that is by creating a friend of his own.
It all started when Ayano aged 67, back to the small village of Nagoro on Shikoku Island where he was born and raised. Previously, he lived in Osaka, Japan's third-largest city, living during his adult life.
Since Ayano back to Nagoro, he contributes unique to the population that is decreasing quickly there. He saw that the village, which was home to more than 300 people, has dwindled into 35 people. After the departure of his father, Ayano decided to make a scarecrow in his sight, which looks very similar to him thereby encouraging its neighbour to start a conversation with him.
Nearly fifteen years later, Nagoro inhabited by ten times more artificial than Ayano doll actual people, many of whom represent people who have just died or moved out of the village. In a short documentary film about the artist by filmmaker Fritz Schumann, titled The Valley of the Dolls, Ayano says about kreasubta, "when I made a doll of the dead, I think about it while they are still alive and well. The doll was like my children. "
The village population is declining and aging, is an indication of a national issue in Japan. According to Business Insider, the number of births was down 2.9 percent in there from the previous year, and is now down to less than one million. This is the lowest number of births ever experienced by Japan see since the same data available in 1974.
More young people also make the choice to move to large cities such as Tokyo and Osaka, where most of the job market and universities in Japan. Nagoro now almost had no children. This is considered "villages in the Gorge," or "the village located on the edge of extinction," according to NPR.
Abandoned classrooms has been the doll Gallery Ayano, consisting of a variety of students, teachers, and principals. Ayano ponder if one day will come when he has lived longer than everyone in her village.
