Dakigokochi ("the feel of cradling"; via Mari) is a service offered by rice-giftery Yosimiya which involves them delivering to a list of recipients specified by you a rounded bag of rice bearing the face of and weighing precisely as much as your newborn baby.

The rice-infant is put in a box which is then wrapped in a furoshiki for delivery, necessitating a sort of reverse mini-funeral upon receipt. Once the effigy is extracted, though, those lucky far-off recipients can get an immediate feel for what it's like to hold their newest grandchild... or at least what it would be like if said grandchild had an unusual skin disease.

And when they finally tire of this changeling's gravid company -- as surely they must -- they can simply tear it apart and feast on its innards, thus completing the Circle of Life. Backwards.

Customers love it!

The design is very cute. Everyone we sent it to was so happy. When they can't come visit, they apparently just gaze at [the bag of rice] instead.

NOT CREEPY.