Daruma Chopstick Rests

For Zen Buddhists, Daruma is the name of the founder of their sect. For the rest of us, it's a roly-poly doll made of papier-mâché and sold all over Japan as a good luck charm, particularly for accomplishing specific goals like passing an exam or getting elected. The doll comes without eyeballs and the custom is to paint one when you set the goal and the other when you achieve it. The doll's popularity has made it one of the most recognizable symbols of Japanese culture, so much so that its design is found in all kinds of items – like the Daruma Chopstick Rests.

Here, though, we don't have some kitsch souvenir version of Daruma as a pair of chopstick rests: the Daruma Chopstick Rests have been carefully crafted from tin and meticulously painted to create a mini sculpture that showcases the figure's iconic shape, including the character for "fortune" on the bottom. You can get the charming chopstick rests in five colors (silver, gold, coral, crimson, black iron) and they even come in a paulownia wood box, making them a perfect ornament when not on your dinner table, holding your chopsticks!

Specs and Features:

• Contains 2 chopstick rests
• Colors: silver, gold, coral, crimson, black
• Dimensions: 35 x 40 x 3.5 mm (1.4 x 1.6 x 0.1")
• Material: tin
• Comes in a paulownia wood box
• Box dimensions: 115 x 77 x 27 mm (4.5 x 3 x 1")
• Made in Jpaan