#Autumn Jizo Statue

[madcat-world]

Autumn Jizo Statue - arcipello

#Autumn Jizo Statue #arcipello #Japanese #statues #scenery #nature #digital art

[aishiteru-kenshin]

赤山禅院 (Akayama Zen-in Temple) | Koji Huang

#Japan #Akayama Zen-in Temple #Jizo Statues #Bamboo Forest #Akayama Zenin Temple #Autumn #Nippon

[chrouya]

[2022-11-21] Arashiyama Momiji (Day) (Cycling) https://www.relive.cc/view/v36A3RX7DZv Now that I've seen the typical Japanese autumn colours at night, I should at least take a day to appreciate them in broad daylight as well. After my previous cycling experience in Kyoto (the "Kamo Kamo" route), it has easily become my preferred transportation method. I rented a pedal assist e-bike - not really necessary if there's no mountain climbing - and basically just headed to some of the temples/shrines that I had still marked as "Want to go" on Google Maps. Our first stop is at Suzumushidera. A very peculiar temple that houses about 5000 (!) crickets. And they're not particularly worshipping this specific insect either. From what I've heard, a certain priest just liked the sound of the insect and decided to keep them during Buddhist rituals. The whole experience at this temple is very unique, as you're welcomed to join a 30 minute sermon about values, goals and happiness in life. The Jizo statue here is also unique as it's wearing sandals. Word has it that the Jizo would visit those who make a wish, so the tradition is to mutter your address during your prayer here... Not sure if I like a stalking deity. After a short visit at Matsuo Shrine (which did not have any special event going on), I got a bit stuck in traffic as I reached Arashiyama's main street. Seems like tourism is slowly getting back on its feet. A little up ahead was Jojakko Temple, similarly bustling with people. For a good reason, this is apparently the #1 spot for autumn colors in Kyoto. By sheer coincidence I bumped into a senpai from my Dutch university, who apparently was taking a stroll with their girlfriend whilst roaming around as a digital nomad. Imagine meeting someone who lives in a different prefecture on a weekday at a specific temple, out of dozens upon dozens in Kyoto. Our final stop it at Daikaku Temple. Not quite known for its autumn colors but its overall scenery. Anice place to check out if you're running out of options in Arashiyama. Stats: 2h57m24s 11.1 km/h 32.9 km #鈴虫寺 #常寂光寺 #大覚寺 #紅葉 #suzumushidera #jojakkoji #大覚寺 #momiji #japancycling #サイクリング #japanphoto #relive #電動アシスト自転車 https://www.instagram.com/p/CowzQY8P4c7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[a-shell-of-light]

Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over cloistered gardens, spike topped walls and treble-bolted doors. Gulls alight on whitewashed gables, creaking pagodas and dung-ripe stables; circle over towers and cavernous bells and over hidden squares where urns of urine sit by covered wells, watched by mule-drivers, mules and wolf-snouted dogs, ignored by hunch-backed makers of clogs; gather speed up the stoned-in Nakashima River and fly beneath the arches of its bridges, glimpsed form kitchen doors, watched by farmers walking high, stony ridges. Gulls fly through clouds of steam from laundries' vats; over kites unthreading corpses of cats; over scholars glimpsing truth in fragile patterns; over bath-house adulterers, heartbroken slatterns; fishwives dismembering lobsters and crabs; their husbands gutting mackerel on slabs; woodcutters' sons sharpening axes; candle-makers, rolling waxes; flint-eyed officials milking taxes; etiolated lacquerers; mottle-skinned dyers; imprecise soothsayers; unblinking liars; weavers of mats; cutters of rushes; ink-lipped calligraphers dipping brushes; booksellers ruined by unsold books; ladies-in-waiting; tasters; dressers; filching page-boys; runny-nosed cooks; sunless attic nooks where seamstresses prick calloused fingers; limping malingerers; swineherds; swindlers; lip-chewed debtors rich in excuses; heard-it-all creditors tightening nooses; prisoners haunted by happier lives and ageing rakes by other men's wives; skeletal tutors goaded to fits; firemen-turned-looters when occasion permits; tongue-tied witnesses; purchased judges; mothers-in-law nurturing briars and grudges; apothecaries grinding powders with mortars; palanquins carrying not-yet-wed daughters; silent nuns; nine-year-old whores; the once-were-beautiful gnawed by sores; statues of Jizo anointed with posies; syphilitics sneezing through rotted-off noses; potters; barbers; hawkers of oil; tanners; cutlers; carters of night-soil; gate-keepers; bee-keepers; blacksmiths and drapers; torturers; wet-nurses; perjurers; cut-purses; the newborn; the growing; the strong-willed and pliant; the ailing; the dying; the weak and defiant; over the roof of a painter withdrawn first from the world, then his family, and down into a masterpiece that has, in the end, withdrawn from its creator; and around again, where their flight began, over the balcony of the Room of Last Chrysanthemum, where a puddle from last night's rain is evaporating; a puddle in which Magistrate Shiroyama observes the blurred reflections of gulls wheeling through spokes of sunlight. This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.

David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

#david mitchell #the thousand autumns of jacob de zoet #quote #literature

[japonesices]

<strong>Autumn Evening in Kyoto / Jakko-in Temple <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/100016856@N08/">by Masako Ishida</a></strong>

location : Jakko-in Temple 　寂光院 四方正面の池と本堂 　　　　　　　Kyoto city , Kyoto prefecture ,Japan

Jakko-in Temple is a convent with a long history. Located north of Kyoto near the village of Ohara, the temple is secluded and the grounds are very quiet. Worn stone steps lead between a stand of old, thick trees en route to the front gate. There is a slight air of melancholy that pervades the place, which may be explained by its part in a sad history.

The temple is famous for its role in the story of the Empress Dowager Kenrei Mon'in, who was saved from death by drowning, only to lose her child and all of her immediate family when a sea battle against a rival led to the destruction of her entire clan in 1185. Widowed and dispossessed of all that she had once owned, she spent the remainder of her life at Jakko-in Temple, in a state of deep loneliness, praying for the souls of the deceased. Her remains are interred on the grounds.

Jakko-in Temple was home to a precious statue of Jizo, the protector of children, and its garden featured a 700-year-old tree. Unfortunately, both of these were lost when the main temple building fell to arson in 2000. In five years the temple was rebuilt, with a replica statue. In a parallel to the story of Kenrei Mon'in, the temple and its garden continues to survive, although much that had been dear to it has been lost.

Kyoto city official travel guide

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[j-trad]

#green #tree #six #jizo #statue #japan #autumn #fall #onaclearday

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[recentanimenews]

How to Watch "Kino's Journey"

What’s a good way to watch a show like Kino’s Journey? Take it from someone who recently traveled to Japan—no matter where anyone goes and wherever cultures differ, the people we meet aren’t all that different from ourselves. No matter how strange their customs, there’s a recognizable and relatable logic to them. Like Kino, we just have to have the right frame of mind to recognize that.

When I was in Japan, I had the chance to experience an autumn festival that took place within and around the vicinity of Tokyo’s Nezu Shrine,. Underneath the iconic red-and-white Tokyo Tower were a row of baby-faced statues bedecked with toddler-sized apparel. Casual tourists might have snickered at the infantile countenances and tiny bibs and caps, preferring to stick to the chocolate banana stalls on the shrine grounds. However, seasoned travelers, far from being content with these activities, tend to desire to learn more. They desire to investigate further.

  Kino, the eponymous protagonist of Kino's Journey, is one such traveler, and like every well-traveled soul who wonders over how such sights come to be, Kino maintains a certain mindset that helps her understand their origins better. Audiences might benefit from this frame of mind as they follow her journey.

  Adapted from a light novel series by Keiichi Sigsawa, Kino’s Journey is an anthology of tales told from the perspective of Kino the traveler. Along with her companion, Hermes the motorrad, Kino journeys from one country to the next. She travels around, enjoying these countries’ landmarks and observing their peoples’ customs. The cultures of these countries are peculiar things – their people dedicated to maintaining specific lifestyles. One country lacks any legal prohibition on killing. Another's people fancy entertaining themselves with gladiatorial bloodsport. Still another's travel the world with their entire country in tow.

For the casual tourist, it’s tempting to dismiss these customs as incredulous or barbaric nonsense. For serious travelers, though, beneath these seemingly inane or insane inventions are the mechanics of a recognizable and relatable logic. As a traveler, Kino notices the peculiar customs people follow. She sees them, comments on them, and asks questions about them. A comprehensive picture of the cultures we visit with her gradually develops into clarity. Like every Twilight Zone installment, every Kino’s Journey episode ends with observations on the values that these cultures hold, inviting the audience in turn to think more deeply about them. And all throughout her investigations, Kino tries to keep an open mind.

Animated Ink once described Kino’s Journey as a set of “self-contained anthropological moral tales.” To unpackage this a bit further, a useful, if not definitive way to understand the open-ended mindset Kino adopts when she attempts understand the cultures she encounters is to think of it as an ethical principle considered key to conducting any anthropological investigation worth its salt: cultural relativism. For scholars and travelers alike, cultural relativism demands that outsiders view the cultures they’re examining from the vantages of insiders: from perspectives native rather foreign.

Human beings are colored by the partialities of their own values and those of their societies. An honest assessment of any culture apart from our own requires that we control these biases, many of which we have grown up with. Cultural relativism demands that our desire for what we perceive things ought to be not cloud our endeavors to discover what is. This principle doesn’t signify that our having moral objections are wrong. It only asks that we suspend them long enough that they don’t hamper our uncovering of truths. What are these truths, though, and what makes them worth finding?

In the first episode of the 2017 adaptation of Kino’s Journey, two people immigrate to A Country Where People Can Kill Others – one to be free to murder, and the other to be free from doing so. Many characters participate in the Colosseum for different reasons – with some backing down after being defeated, and others never surrendering despite death. A Bothersome Country shows its citizens the joys of a world unspoiled and borderless – ruining the environment they admire and violating other countries’ boundaries as they go. Through these various encounters, we begin to see a pattern emerge. And the more we follow Kino on her travels, the more we learn about us: her, the audience, and humanity itself.

I traveled to Tokyo a little more than a month back. Whilst there, I investigated the things I saw that stood out. Jizo statue faces are carved to look like the babes the Boddhisattva is believed by the faithful to protect. Japanese parents adorn these Jizo statues with baby clothes, as a sign of good faith to the Boddhisattva to intercede on behalf of their sickly or deceased kids. The Nezu Shrine Festival is dedicated to the pampering and celebrating of children. It’s an ordinarily joyous occasion that gains melancholic context in light of Japan’s demographic problems. While I was there, I saw an entire Japanese family and a lone Japanese man clear the weeds around and scrub the headstones of their loved ones. In examining the customs of other cultures through their inhabitants' eyes, we gain a precious window into ourselves. They are responses to the fears we keep and the desires we share with our fellow humans.

These truths are relatable. They’re relatable because they’re human, and for Kino on her journeys, there’s a beauty to that humanity.

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ZeroReq011 is a social scientist and history buff who dabbles in creative writing and anime analysis every now and again. If you’d like to get in touch with him or are interested in reading more of his works, you can follow him on Twitter or check out his blog, Therefore It Is.

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[gary-luscombe]

This is Enmei-ji temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka Prefecture. Although I have been here many times, I actually still know very little about its history. From what I understand, it is thought to have been founded by the famous monk Kobo Daishi (founder of Shingon Buddhism and sacred Koyasan) at the beginning of the 9th century. He is believed to have carved a statue of Jizo, which is one of the main objects of worship at Enmei-ji. Jizo are the small statues with rounded features you often see wearing hats. Also known as Ojizo-sama, he is the deity and guardian of children, especially those that have died. Enmei-ji is a little off the beaten track, sitting in the hills bordering Osaka, Nara and Wakayama Prefectures. It is within walking distance of Kanshin-ji, which I have written about often. Compared to many temples, Enmei-ji feels quite wild. The small cluster of slightly tired halls sit at the base of a large hill. Several paths wind their way up and around the hill, which is quite heavily forested. From time to time you will pass small clusters of worn and lichen covered statues. The highlight for me is a section of the trail covered in a thick carpet of moss. It reminds me of something out of a Studio Ghibli movie and it's hard not to get lost in the magic of the place. At the top of the hill is a small gazebo and seating area with more paths stretching further into the woods. Heading back down towards the temple courtyard via an alternate path brings you passed a shallow, almost empty pond with a small stone pagoda in its center. There is also a small, wild garden in front of the priest's house made up of mossy rocks, heathers and plum trees. While it is open year round, the best times to visit are spring during sakura season and especially autumn for the changing of the leaves. Enmei-ji is famous for a huge tree known as the 'Sunset Maple' which is thought to be over 1,000 years old and whose leaves are particularly bright. #japan #japanesehistory #instagramjapan #buddhism #temple #cooljapan #historynerd #kawachinagano #okukawachi #osaka #日本 #寺 #河内長野 #奥河内 #大阪 #歴史 (at Kawachinagano-shi, Osaka, Japan)

#kawachinagano #日本 #歴史 #大阪 #japanesehistory #okukawachi #buddhism #historynerd #osaka #寺 #cooljapan #instagramjapan #河内長野 #japan #奥河内 #temple