Hikaru
Dorodango
Naoto Kanesaka is the director of the Children’s Centre in Kobe City, in Japan’s Hyōgo Prefecture. When studying early years education at university he discovered dorodango, the process of making mud balls, or dumplings. He now encourages the practice at the centre, and among adults via a Facebook group that he manages.
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