User talk:2600:2B00:8223:5C00:0:0:0:AB79

It is my impression from the official government sponsor culture website about Japan and several other sources that Daruma is a separate entity from the Buddhist Bhodidahrma, Daruma was Amaterasu brother and the Shinto god of the wind and played a drum in the tale of Amaterasu and the cave an etioological explaining an eclipse of the sun. I don't have my references immediately on hand I will find them and use them to correct that information very soon. I'm sure that Buddhist temples may use the dolls depicted as a fundraiser but it is not Daruma. Anneoriginal132600:2B00:8223:5C00:0:0:0:AB79 (talk) 06:22, 27 June 2019 (UTC)