Kyugetsu doll maker Sasakura displays “hagoita”

December 6, 2017

TOKYO- Japanese doll maker Kyugetsu employee Haruka Sasakura, wearing a kimono dress, displays wooden battledores or "hagoita" decorated with images of the giant panda cub Xiang Xiang (center) and celebrities such as this year's topics at the company's showroom in Tokyo on Wednesday, December 6, 2017.

A hagoita is a wooden paddle used to play the new year hanetsuki game, where two players hit a shuttlecock back and forth. Jiji Press