Hina ningyo dolls (dolls placed out for decoration on the day of Hina-Matsuri, a festival held on March 3 celebrating young girls) and gogatsu ningyo dolls (dolls resembling warriors celebrating the growth of young boys for the Boy’s Day celebration held yearly on May 5) are types of Edo Ishogi Ningyo familiar to any Japanese person. While they originated in Kyoto, during the Edo Period (1603-1867), dollmakers and their apprentices would make their way from other parts of Japan as members of Sankin-Kotai (a system wherein feudal rulers known as daimyo were required to reside in Edo regularly, necessitating processions to and from their homelands) and thereby spread knowledge of their techniques. Doll production in Edo began to make great strides once the 5th Edo Shogun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi established a doll market during his reign in the Genroku era (1688-1704). Edo ishogi ningyo dolls are painstakingly made using traditional techniques passed down since the Edo period such as the process of painting eyes, eyebrows, and lipstick onto the dolls, which both provide a classical beauty as well as an aesthetic sweetness pleasing to modern sensibilities as well.