Here are some Kokeshi via a Google search.Kokeshi (こけし, kokeshi?), are Japanese dolls, originally from northern Japan. They are handmade from wood, have a simple trunk and an enlarged head with a few thin, painted lines to define the face. The body has a floral design painted in red, black, and sometimes yellow, and covered with a layer of wax. One characteristic of kokeshi dolls is their lack of arms or legs. The bottom is marked with the signature of the artist. ...
The word kokeshi itself is originally Sendai dialect, with the dolls being known as e.g. deko, kideko, dekoroko in Fukushima, kibako, kihohoko, obokko in Miyagi, hangyo, kiningyō in Naruko, none of which support the theory.[4] Instead, a more plausible explanation is that kokeshi are simply wooden (木, ki, ko?) or small (小, ko?) dolls (芥子, keshi?).
What I find most interesting though, is the name, kokeshi. Obviously, most of us are very familiar with keshi. Many Japanese collectors refer to keshi as keshigomu. As I've been told many times, gomu means rubber. That has always made sense to me. What I never knew, which many of you probably did or were able to figure out , was that keshi means "doll" (or, I'm sure, figurine). Thus the rough translation of words like keshigomu and kinkeshi means rubber doll or kinnikuman doll. (We already knew this of course, but for me, knowing that keshi means doll makes it a little more "official.")