The story begins with a Japanese girl named Kikuko's three-year-old who contracted a serious illness that forced her to bed for a few months in 1932. During his convalescence, the brother of Kikuko visited the city of Hokkaido (Sapporo) buying it a nice doll to which named Okiku. Kikuko, despite being very ill, it was not separated her and looked after it thoroughly so it suffers no damage. However, with the passage of time the girl was getting worse and, in January 1933, the girl died after spending more than five months in bed.
As it is customary in Japan, the day of the cremation of the corpse placed objects that the girl but he felt so they burn next to it, but because of the great pain of their loss, family forgot to let the wrist between the objects that should be incinerated.Contrary to burn it, the family decided to keep the wrist, placing it a few days later along with the ashes of the small. With the passage of time, the family began to perceive how the doll hairs began to grow, by which began to doubt about the divinity of precious object.
With the onset of World War II, the family emigrated and entrusted custody of the doll at Mannenji Temple priests, which kept it along with the ashes of the girl. To the war, and the family's return, these perceived afraid that hair did not stop growing, already reaching half of the back.
The temple, located in Hokkaido, is visited by thousands of visitors each year who want to check their own fantastic transformation. Today ensures that not only the hair has been transformed, but the lips, which were previously closed, now remain open and with a touch of moisture, and seems fixed eyes that they regarded the visitor as if it had a life of its own.
