Amagatsu
The "amagatsu" is clothed like a "kakashi" (scarecrow), while the "hoko" is like a stuffed doll. However, both of these words used to mean the same thing. In those days, they were known as "hoko" which today we call ﾒamagatsuﾓ, and there were also stuffed "amagatsu". These dolls were used as "katashiro" for funerals in the Heian era (794-1185), but in the Muromachi era (1333-1568) they became popular as substitutes for bearing the impurities and evil sprits that afflicted children. In the Edo era (1600 -1868), people displayed these dolls at the ﾒmomo-no-sekkuﾓ, together with dolls for the Girlsﾕ Festival, by taking "amagatsu" as the male doll and "hoko" as a female doll.