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The "daruma," long beloved by people as a good-luck charm, is modeled after Bodhidharma, known as the founder of Zen Buddhism.
There is a legend that, after nine years of unbroken devotion to zazen meditation, his limbs decayed and were lost.
As the founder of Zen Buddhism, his willingness to take on new challenges and devote himself wholly to a single pursuit overlaps with Koga's stance as an artist, striving to create a new value he calls "anti-wabi-sabi."
The countless studs covering the daruma express a rebellious spirit, reinforcing the daruma's traditional meaning: it always rights itself, no matter how many times it falls.