DOLL CLASS · KOCHI
Ball-Jointed Doll Classes
Bring the doll you imagine to life.
Creative Doll Classes in Kochi
Ann Adachi teaches creative doll making in Kochi City, Japan.
Her classes welcome both first-time ball-jointed doll makers and experienced students, with guidance tailored to each person's experience and artistic expression.
Rather than having everyone reproduce the same finished design, the class helps each student gradually bring the doll they imagine to life with their own hands.
For information about visiting or enrolling, please contact Ann through the email address on the Contact page.
Class Details
- Fee
- ¥6,000 per session
- Materials
- Charged separately. Clay is around ¥500 per block; other materials vary with what you choose
- Schedule
- Three sessions per month, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
- Hours
- 10:00–17:00, including a one-hour lunch break
- Extra dates
- When enough students enrol, additional sessions are held on a Friday or Saturday in another week
- Venue
- Kochi Prefectural Culture Hall, 4F / 2F, Kochi City
- Class size
- Up to 8 students per class
- Who can join
- Women aged 18 and over. Men may attend when accompanying their wife
- Visits
- Welcome, free of charge
What You Can Learn
The classes primarily cover the following areas:
- Sculpting faces and bodies in clay
- The fundamentals of ball-joint construction
- Balancing the doll’s overall proportions
- Surface preparation and painting
- Finishing the eyes, hair, and doll itself
- Techniques adapted to each student’s artistic vision
Every student progresses at a different pace. Each person spends time with the work and gradually completes a doll at a pace that feels right.
Please note that the classes do not include instruction in making doll clothing.
Ask About Classes or Studio VisitsSTUDENT VOICES
Student Voices
I'm allowed to make exactly the doll I want to make.
She teaches how a ball-jointed doll should be built, grounded in the structure of the human body.
I can freely make deformed, stylized dolls too.
UPCOMING CLASS EXHIBITION
Upcoming
Sixth Student Exhibition
Ball-Jointed Doll Exhibition — Forms of Feeling
- Dates
- September 19–23, 2026
- Hours
- 11:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
- Venue
- Fika Bloom in
1F Nanyo Sky Maison, 1-5-16 Honmachi, Kochi City - Admission
- Free
PAST CLASS EXHIBITION
Fifth Student Exhibition
Ball-Jointed Doll Exhibition — Forms of Feeling
Forms of Feeling was the fifth exhibition presented by students of Ann Adachi's creative doll classes.
Students who had continued developing their work in the studio exhibited original dolls shaped by their own sensibilities and stories.
Although each work was a ball-jointed doll, faces, scale, expressions, and gestures varied from one piece to another, revealing the individuality of every student's approach.
The exhibition was held at clara-garden from October 6 through 14, 2024, and has now concluded. Installation photographs are shown below.
