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Mechanism of a DANGAERI doll
A lower, left figure shows a general view of Five Steps DANGAERI doll shown in KARAKURI-ZUI and right figure shows the inside mechanism. But, a direction of before and after of a doll is reversed. In the left figure, a doll goes down a step in sequence while repeating a back flip. A doll repeats a back flip because mercury moves in a pipe shown with two (
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)--> three (
)--> four (
)--> five (
). However, we call it the "DANGAERI doll" because five steps have no special mechanical meaning.
