Year-end annual "KARAKANEI HAKOITA" (changing shuttlecock board)
Faces of 2016
A staff member wearing traditional kimono holds a Hagoita Paddle decorated with the face of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine Yoshinori Ohsumi at the Kyugetsu doll maker's company showroom on December 7, 2016, Tokyo, Japan. Every year the Japanese doll maker creates topical ornamental Hagoita paddles with faces of the newsmakers of the year. Hagoita are traditional Japanese wooden paddle ornaments which are sold at shrines and traditional fairs (Hagoita ichi) held in December. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO)