# Mihara Daruma factual review packet

Status: Prepared, not sent.
Queue: Prepared review backlog.

Regional field file: https://darumaatlas.com/types/mihara
Suggested reviewer: Municipal museum or prefectural craft specialist
Review scope: Bean-pattern headband, painted eyes and internal sounding element
Source audit: 27 August 2026
Institution review: Not yet institution reviewed
Maker review: Not yet maker reviewed
3D status: Interpretive model — not a licensed replica
Object capture brief: Not included in the current five-object capture pilot

Please review only the three current claims below. A factual reply is not endorsement of Daruma Atlas, another regional file or the 3D collection.


## Claim 1 — A bean-pattern band

- Claim ID: `claim-mihara-headband`
- Current statement: Mihara City identifies the mameshibori-style headband as a characteristic local feature. The dots here are a simplified cue, not a copied workshop pattern.
- Direct claim URL: https://darumaatlas.com/types/mihara#claim-mihara-headband
- Current sources:
- Mihara City History and Folklore Museum — Mihara Daruma (Municipal museum source): https://www.city.mihara.hiroshima.jp/site/kyouiku/tenji03.html
- Reviewer response: correct as written / correct but needs nuance / incorrect / outside our expertise / source has changed
- Suggested correction or context:

## Claim 2 — Looking ahead from the start

- Claim ID: `claim-mihara-eyes`
- Current statement: Both pupils are painted when the daruma is made, a convention explained locally as seeing ahead.
- Direct claim URL: https://darumaatlas.com/types/mihara#claim-mihara-eyes
- Current sources:
- Hiroshima Prefecture — Mihara Daruma (Prefectural craft source): https://www.pref.hiroshima.lg.jp/soshiki/78/miharadaruma.html
- Mihara City History and Folklore Museum — Mihara Daruma (Municipal museum source): https://www.city.mihara.hiroshima.jp/site/kyouiku/tenji03.html
- Reviewer response: correct as written / correct but needs nuance / incorrect / outside our expertise / source has changed
- Suggested correction or context:

## Claim 3 — A charm that rings or rattles

- Claim ID: `claim-mihara-sound`
- Current statement: Traditional examples include a bell or stone inside. The Web model records this fact but does not simulate a specific maker's sound.
- Direct claim URL: https://darumaatlas.com/types/mihara#claim-mihara-sound
- Current sources:
- Hiroshima Prefecture — Mihara Daruma (Prefectural craft source): https://www.pref.hiroshima.lg.jp/soshiki/78/miharadaruma.html
- Mihara City History and Folklore Museum — Mihara Daruma (Municipal museum source): https://www.city.mihara.hiroshima.jp/site/kyouiku/tenji03.html
- Reviewer response: correct as written / correct but needs nuance / incorrect / outside our expertise / source has changed
- Suggested correction or context:

## Model inspection boundary

The regional page offers front, right, back, left and oblique inspection after the optional 3D stage is loaded. The model is an interpretive Web reconstruction, not an authenticated digital twin or licensed replica.

## Rights boundary

A factual reply does not grant rights to photographs, scans, logos, workshop-specific designs, calligraphy, merchandising or endorsement. Any permission discussion must be recorded separately.

## Response ledger

Record: date sent; recipient; official route; claim ID; response; decision; text change; model change; credit permission; reviewer wording approval; date published.