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Daruma is the monk credited with founding Zen Buddhism in Japan. This netsuke (toggle) may be referencing a story, whereby Daruma, frustrated with himself because he kept falling asleep while meditating, cut off his own eyelids and threw them to the ground. The eyelids eventually grew into tea trees.
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