she monologues on the girl
she never bore
World Kigo Database (Kokeshi)
Note: Many people believe that early kokeshi were representations of girl children that were aborted or put to death after childbirth due to the inability to support a poor family of greater size. Even the word, ko-keshi (ko o kesu), can be loosely translated as "extinguished child" or “a child wiped out”. -- an excerpt from the section entitled Kokeshi
