The Takashimaya store in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, is planning to sell a special set of dolls via lottery, in an attempt to prevent a single customer from buying them all up as happened at its Kyoto store.
Named "Lorina," the dolls are based on artwork by illustrator Junichi Nakahara (1913-1983). They are about 65 centimeters tall and priced at 124,200 yen each.
The Takashimaya store in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, limited purchases of its stock to just two dolls per customer on March 31. It distributed numbered tickets to 50 people on a first-come, first-served basis, but one man paid for all 100 dolls at a total cost of about 12 million yen.
The delivery addresses for the dolls were said to all be the same, drawing criticism that the man must have intended to buy up the dolls for resale purposes.
The store in Nihonbashi therefore reconsidered its sales method. It is scheduled to sell 100 of the "Lorina" dolls over three days, on May 16, 19, and 20, and will give each person just one application for the lottery. Only one doll will be able to be mailed to a certain address.
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