North Alabama Japanese Garden Vintage Doll Fund Raising

Mr. Mike and Mrs. Donna Williams donated the vintage Japanese doll collection that belonged to his mother, Satsu Harada Williams, for our Japanese Garden. We are so grateful for this donation, and we would like to use the sale for our garden maintenance and renovations. Please feel free to message us via Facebook if you are interested in the purchase from the link!

Japanese Geisha Maiko Doll --- $220

----------Description from Mr. Mike Williams----------

My parents met after World War II in Yokohama, Japan. My father's military service took him all over Southeast Asia. They were stationed in Okinawa where my mother began lessons on how to make dolls. She made a few of these dolls but the other were purchased as part of her collection. The wooden dolls belonged to my mother as a child, as I was told. We settled as a family in Louisiana at Fort Polk which was my father's last duty station in the US Army. The dolls were proudly displayed in our family home from my earliest memory. My Mother passed away from cancer in 2011. That was when I took possession of the collection. Before Donna and I got married, I needed to downsize my home. That was when I reached out to the Japanese Society of Alabama. Mike Swinson and I connected. We came up with a few ideas and the one I liked the most was to donate the collection to the society so that they could have them in an auction or as gifts to speakers. I love the idea, that others would enjoy them as much as my family has for all these years.