(521) Hime-daruma doll [調べる]
O-miyage / souvenirs
―Conversational JAPANESE IN 7 DAYS (1991 Edition)
Conversational Japanese in 7 Days (Conversational Languages in 7 Days)
- 出版社/メーカー: McGraw-Hill
- 発売日: 2004/02/01
- メディア: ペーパーバック
This is a Hime-daruma doll, meaning princess-daruma doll. Besides her is a Nishiki-daruma doll, it is said that the same princess in the disguise of a man.
―体験館 城山横丁 Dec. 20, 2020
Taiken-kan Shiroyama-yokochou
It is said that Hime-daruma doll was created in commemoration of the first Japanese empress being pregnant at Dogo-Onsen hot spring.
Since ancient times, the princess Darumad doll has been cherished as a mascot for the common people who wish for the growth and happiness of their children, as well as for various celebrations such as wedding celebrations and birthday celebrations, and as a daruma doll that invites happiness.
Why don't you make your own princess Daruma doll?
ーHemedaruma and Japanese Goods Store Minatoya
Legend "As of Jan. 31, 2017"
Who is Jingu-kogo, the first Japanese Empress?
古事記 ゆる神様１００図鑑
She went to an expedition with her husband, Chuai Emperor, who suddenly died. Even though she was pregnant, she continued fighting in place of her husband, and subdued the enemy.
Emperor / Emperor reign period
The 14th Emperor Chuai / 192-200
Empress Jingu Regent / 201-269
The 15th Emperor Ojin / 270-310
ーゴーマニズム宣言Special 天皇論 / 小林よしのり
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(520) Foxes at Dogo-Inari-jinja Shrine [調べる]
Photo 1: 2020/11/25 Photo 2: 2020/11/25
There is a vermillion Inari-jinja shrine next to the fourth hot-water-delivering facility of Dogo Hot spring. The Dogo Inari shrine was rebuilt 2018, so, it is very new now.
By the way, can you read the letter carved on the stones beneath the stone fox statues?
They read 献 奉, that is, "奉献" meaning "dedication".
Photo 3: 献の字体 Photo 4: 奉の字体
Photo 5: 2020/11/25 Photo 6: 2020/11/25
Two fox (kitsune) stone statues sit in front of the shrine. One has a scroll and the other has a ball of jewel called "hoju (宝珠)" in its mouth. In addition, on the top of their tails "hoju" is put.
It is said that the ball of jewel symbolizes a warehouse of grain and the scroll is the symbol of wisdom. Kitsune, a fox is a real animal but is considered supernatural in Japan. Kitsune is the object of worship of Inari Shinko, an old folk religion.
Photo 7: 2020/11/25
You can see hoju gem (宝珠) mark on the stone base of the fox statues, which resembles Yudama (a bubbling hot water image 湯玉) of Dogo hot spring.
Photo 8: Yudama on Dogo Onsen main building 2018/11/22
Long ago the deities of Fushimi-Inari were enshrined in Matsuyama. Dogo-Inari-jinja shrine was relocate here in Meiji 42 (1909). The main deity of the shrine is Ukanomitana-no-Kami, Goddess of food and agriculture. Inari was originally and remains primarily the kami of rice and agriculture, but merchants and manufacturers also worship Inari as the patron of business.
Poto 9: Wooden sitting statue of Ukanomitamano-mikoto
According to myth, Inari, as a goddess, was said to have comet to Japan at the time of its creation amidst a harsh famine that struck the land. "She [Inari] descended from Heaven riding on a white fox, and her hand she carried sheaves of cereal or grain.
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(519) Karyobinga at Isaniwa shrine [調べる]
What is this? It's a Karyōbinga!
https://isaniwa.official.jp/2016/12/13/ご本殿の蟇股/
The figure of Karyobinga (迦陵頻伽) is carved on the gable on the south side of the main shrine of Isaniwa. Karyobinga is a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism, with a human head and a bird's torso, with a long flowing tail. In "Amitabha sutra 阿弥陀経", Karyobinga is said to live in the Western pure land (極楽浄土 Gokuraku Jodo). A transliteration of the Sanskrit "kalavinka", an imaginary creature in Buddhism. It is also translated to myōoncho (妙音鳥, "exquisite sounding bird"). Although it appears as a human head bird in Chinese Buddhist mural paintings, in Japanese Buddhist art it has been drawn with the lower body of a bird on the upper body of a winged Bodhisattva (菩薩).
This carving is a detailed design of Buddhist construction, which tells the long history of Shinbutsu Shugo (神仏習合、"syncretism of kami and buddhas"), which was started by Hachiman God. Hachiman god joined the Buddhist pantheon as Hachiman Great Bodhisattva (八幡大菩薩, Hachiman Daibosatsu).
For Your Information;
Kalaviṅka / Sanskrit: कलविङ्क kalaviṅka; [Callwink] is spelled in the characters of different languages of Asian countries.
Chinese: 迦陵頻伽 Jiālíngpínqié; [↑チャー↓リンピン↑チャー]
Japanese: Karyōbinga (迦陵頻伽)
Korean: 가릉빈가; [galeungbinga]
Vietnamese: Ca Lăng Tần Già; [カー↑ランタンザー]
Burmese: ကရဝိက်; [karawiatフィアウエイ] mythical bird supposed to have a melodious cry
Thai: การเวก, [Kārwekチャーラ↑ウエーイ] Names of birds in fairy tales Believed to be in the Himmapan forest. It looks like Garuda Prasom with a swan, fly high above the clouds, feast on food, and have a beautiful voice. All the animals heard will be stopped by the grasp of the cry, the wig calling.
Malay: karawek
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(518) MinnaIssho-Daibutsu at Ishite-ji Temple [調べる]
Photo 1: 2020/11/25 MinnaIssho-Daibutsu 皆一緒大仏
Photo 1: 2020/11/25, Photo 3: 2020/11/27
This group of stone Buddhist images is called "Everybody-is -the-same Buddha(皆一緒大仏 minna issho dai utsu)" according to an article of Ehime-shimbun newspaper of Nov. 22, 2018. The article said that a ceremony of consecrating the newly made Buddhist statues was held on Nov. 20, 2018.
One volunteer guide of Matsuyama Convention and Visitors Bureau taught me that it is a three-dimensional mandala formed of 15 stone statues. At Toji-temple in Kyoto, there is a 3D mandala of 21 statues, which saint Kobo Kukai made. But the guide didn't know why the temple named it "Everybody -is-the-same Buddha (皆一緒大仏 minna issho daibutsu)". I thought it myself. Suddenly, this phrase reminded me of Kaneko Misuzu's poem. She wrote in her poem, "A bell, a little bird, and me, We're all different and all wonderful". I also remembered that Ishiteji-temple published a booklet named "Buddhism and Kaneko Misuzu's poem". After reading it again, I am now sure this naming means that "Everybody is equally important".
I took photos of two flags at the site of Ishiteji-temple. One is read "Everybody-is-the-same mandala (皆一緒曼荼羅)" and the other is "Unbeaten-and-Live-together Buddhas (不敗共生大仏)". Wow, another new name for the Buddhist images? Now I understood that these are kind of nicknames. The chief priest of the temple seemed to enjoy giving nicknames to the 3D mandala.
What is a mandala? A mandala is a map representing Buddhist images. Teaching of esoteric Buddhism (密教 Mikkyo) is expressed as a mandala. In order to convey the mandala more realistically, Saint Kobo made the 3D mandala of 21 statues at Toji-temple.
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(517) Legend / Entwined bamboos at Taisan-ji Temple [調べる]
太山寺 ねじれ竹 伝説 Legend / Entwined bamboos at Taisan-ji Temple
photo 2015 Nov. 26, Taisan-ji Main Hall
五戒： The five commandments (of Buddhism, against murder, theft, lying, adultery, and intemperance)
If you break even one of these five, you will fall into hell after death.
Photo 2015 Nov. 26, picture of Hell at Bell Tower
According to a today's dictionary, adultery means voluntary sexual intercourse of married person with someone other than his or her lawful spouse. In Edo period (1603 - 1863) in Japan, adultery is a word that refers to the sexual relationship between all men and women who are not married. If a man is unmarried, it is possible to propose marriage to an unmarried woman. But in this era when marriage was decided by the relationship between the families, it was often not permitted if there was a difference in status or wealth. As a result, it led to tragedy such as elopement or double suicides.
photo 2019 Nov.28, 2015 Nov. 26
This house used to be an inn for pilgrims. Usually bamboo grows straight, but these bamboos in the garden have entwined themselves as they grew. This is a legend about these twisted bamboos.
Long ago a young man and a young woman arrived at this inn. They entered their room leaving their pilgrim's staffs made of bamboo at the entrance of the inn. A Buddhist monk saw the sticks and loudly scolded them, "The walking stick is a symbol of Saint Kobo (774-835), so pilgrims must wash them before washing their feet."
Now, I stop the story for a while, to explain the reason why the monk got so angry with the couple. Saint Kobo is said to have established the pilgrimage of 88 temples after the year 815. He is the founder of Shingon Sect of Buddhism.
Saint Kobo
All the people going on a pilgrimage to the 88 temples in Shikoku island, use the walking sticks called Kongo-zue, which symbolizes Saint Kobo. In other words, pilgrimage with the stick means that "Saint Kobo is always with me," which is called "a party of two / Dogyo Ninin (同行二人) in Japanese." So the sticks must be treated courteously. At inn, after being washed, the stick is supposed to be placed on the upper seat in the room, such as in the alcove.
Kongo-zue Now I'll be back to the story. When the couple hurriedly returned to the entrance and washed their sticks. When they carried them into their room, the sticks twined each other. The couple was very surprised at the weird event and reported it to the monk.
Then the monk said, "You are not real pilgrims, aren't you?" Actually, they were an adultery couple pretending to be pilgrims. The monk said, "The sticks twined each other because something is wrong between two of you. You should repent of your behavior, make a trip separately from now on, and confess everything to Saint Kobo. If you do so, you will be forgiven."
And the monk planted the sticks into the ground as a warning of this incident. He said, "With the permission of Saint Kobo, they will take root and grow their branches and leaves." As he said, they soon sprouted and grew. It is said that, because of this, bamboo is no longer used as a pilgrim's stick.
Bamboo stick This is the end of the legend. I don't agree with this story. Especially I don't like the reason why their bamboo sticks are twined each other. Did something bad between the two make the two sticks bent? No, no, I wanted to believe that their bamboo sticks got twined each other because the couple's love was really, truly strong.
I found another version of this legend. In this version the couple repented their behavior in the same way, but the couple stabbed their bamboo sticks into the ground before they separated.
Another version of the legend goes like this.
Long ago a young man and young woman posed as pilgrims on the 88-emple pilgrimage so that they might be together. One nigh they stayed here and the priest noticed that there was something between the two and that their purpose in making the pilgrimage was not sincere. He called them aside and talked to them and they finally realized that what they were doing was wrong. They repented and promised to be true pilgrims after that. The priest told them to part ways the next day. But before they separated, they drove their pilgrim's staffs side-by-side into the ground. The staffs were bamboo and they soon sprouted and grew. As they got taller, they became entwined as the hearts of the two lovers, symbolizing their love. It is said that, because of this, bamboo is no longer used as a pilgrim's staff. The end.
I like this story better than the first one.
Thank you for reading this.
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(515) The Sturgeon moon [調べる]
One of my friends taught me that the August full moon is called the Sturgeon moon. She texted me, "It is very beautiful. Look up the sky now to see the August full moon." I did so and took a picture of the moon. A very bad phot, there was an only white blur spot in the dark sky.
What is sturgeon? My electronic dictionary says sturgeon is fish whose roe is caviar. Who calls the August full moon "the Sturgeon moon"? I got very interested in the name. Immediately I googled the word and I knew American Indians called twelve full moons of a year by their own special names. I also got cute illustrations of them at a site.
https://weathernews.jp/s/topics/202008/030265/
I have a book published 1997, HOBMOK and Other Writings on Indians, written by Lydia Maria Child. I bought this book around 2004 at a secondhand bookstore in Japan. I knew this book is about American Indians but I stopped at the very beginning of introduction of this book and gave up reading.
Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians (American Women Writers Series)
- 作者: Child, Lydia Maria Francis
- 出版社/メーカー: Rutgers Univ Pr
- 発売日: 1986/04/01
- メディア: ペーパーバック
Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upper-class white woman who married an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him―with the child―for another man. This novel, originally published in 1824, is a powerful first among antipatriarchal and antiracist novels in American literature.
The Sturgeon moon encouraged me to challenge this book again. But this time, first of all, I tried to search for the words of moon from cover to cover. I fortunately found a word of "Sturgeon moon" in the chapter XII. Then I read only this chapter.
The Sturgeon moon
"Hobomok," interrupted Mr. Conant, who entered at this moment, "it is a pity you were not out with you bow, forasmuch1) as a fine deer just ran through the settlement2)."
"There's a tribe of 'em, out on the plains3) to night," answered the Indian. "Their tracks4) are thick as flies5) in the Sturgeon moon." Sagamore John's men are coming out with―with―" and unable to think of the English word, he pointed to the candle.
"Oh, they are coming out by torch-light," exclaimed Mary, "as Hobomok says the western Indians do. How I do wish I could see them hunt by torch-light."
1) forasmuch: in view of the fact that.
2) settlement: a colony, especially in its early stages.
3) plain: a large area of flat land with few trees.
4) track: a mark or a series of marks left by a person, animal, or thing in passing.
5) thick as flies: it's an idiomatic expression, it means "to be very abundant."
In the previous page, there are other Indian moons.
The cold moon
It was in the middle of the "cold moon", by which name he used to designate January, that he arrived in Salem, on one of his numerous visits, bringing with him some skins of the beautiful grey fox of the Mississippi.
The moon of flowers, the hunting moon
"One warrior came among us in the moon of flowers, and spread his blanket with us through the hunting moon. I talked with him, like as with the Yengees. He told big stories about his tribe; but he say Great Spirit lay between us, and his back bone so high, make foot of the Indian weary.
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(514) A woman of the Long Neck Tribe [調べる]
Working with the U.N. Human Settlements Programme, the photographer Ruben Salgado Escudero traveled to Burma to showcase the transformative effect of solar energy. One of the nighttime portraits in his photo essayーDaw Mu Nan at her grandson's home in Pa Dan Kho.
Before I threw away my old TIME magazines, I turned the pages of Nov. 3, 2014 issue. I found this photo of a woman of the Long Neck Tribe in the article, "Banish The Night Solar energy could help bring power to the powerless in Burma". Then I remembered another picture of the long neck tribe in a book named "Ebony-colored Virgin Mary", collections of poems by Kimiko Itami.
- 作者: 公子, 伊丹
- 出版社/メーカー: 沖積舎
- 発売日: 2004/07/15
- メディア: 単行本
When I compared the two pictures, I thought those pictures are the same woman, one is when she was young, another one is when she got old. I was a little bit excited to find the coincidence. But now I am not sure of this, because the young woman's photo was taken in 1997, and Time's issue is 2014. Only 17 years between them. Though I still think the two women are very much alike.
Kimiko wrote in her poem "A woman Long Neck Tribe",
A Polish adventurer, Victor de Gorish Called the place "a country of giraffe women"
The spiral brass brace
Is first worn
When a girl becomes six years old
And a new ring is added on every three years
Until the girl reaches twenty-one year old
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According to the Kayani Tribe legend,
A father used to be wind
And a mother a dragon,
The long neck-rings
Looked like a dragon somehow
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(513) Rechargeable battery recycle box [調べる]
I knew of this box from an information flyer of my community a few weeks ago. It is sometimes very hard to sort household garbage. I didn't know how to dispose of rechargeable batteries. I am a kind of man who keep social rules. So, I've kept two dead rechargeable batteries for a long time. One is PC's battery for two years, and the other is a battery of a cleaning robot, for more than three years. I was very glad to put them into the recycle box in the Habu branch of the Matsuyama City government.
I found more detailed information at the site of BAJ (the Battery Association of Japan).
Rechargeable batteries primarily use nickel (Ni) and cadmiun (Cd), cobalt (Co), lead (Pb) and other rare resources. Recycling is an effective means of reusing such rare resources without waste. Examples of this are the use of nickel and iron alloy in stainless steel, and the use of cadmium in making new Ni-Cd batteries. Please cooperate with recycling the used rechargeable batteries to make the most of rare resources.
I am using an old MacBook, ten years old. My daughter gave it to me when she replaced it with a new PC. One day, I noticed its touch pad was rising and swelling day by day. Finally, I unscrewed the PC back cover and checked its inside. Its battery was swelled. A new battery was not available, so I gave up replacing it, and removed it from the PC. It was August in 2018. The battery continued to swell after removing from the PC. I can read Li-ion recycle mark on it.
Lithium-ion battery
The lithium-ion battery is a secondary battery with a carbon negative electrode that can absorb and release lithium ions, and a lithium cobalt oxide positive electrode. When compared with Ni-Cd batteries and other similar batteries, lithium-ion batteries have superior features such as higher energy density and voltage. Expensive and rare cobalt and other materials can be recovered from recycled lithium-ion batteries.
The other is the battery of a cleaning robot, Roomba. Ni-MH is read on it.
Nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) battery
In place of the cadmium negative electrode of Ni-Cd battery, a hydrogen-absorbing alloy that absorbs and releases active materials such as hydrogen is used as the negative electrode. It is a sealed alkaline storage battery, and it has a higher energy density than an Ni-Cd battery. As with Ni-Cd batteries, rare natural resources such as nickel can be recovered from recycled Ni-MH batteries.
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(512) I am not a trisector. [調べる]
Underwood Dudley in Department of Mathematics Depauw University, explained about trisector in his writing, 'What To Do When the Trisector Comes'.
A trisector is a person who has, he thinks, succeeded in dividing any angle into three equal parts using straightedge and compass alone. He comes when he sends you his trisection in the mail and asks your opinion, or (worth) calls you to discuss his work, or (worse still) shows up in person.
One obvious characteristic of trisectors is that they are old. The typical trisector heard of the trisection in his geometry class, but did not succeed with his construction until many years later, usually after retirement. "His" in the last sentence is not sexist because almost all trisectors are male. From the two female calculation that we can be 95% sure that proportion of female trisectors is less than .04. Women have too much sense to waste time on such things. Trisectors are old men. An Illinoi lawyer wrote in 1953.
Underwood said those trisectors are mathematical cranks (persons with a strange idea, because trisection with compass and straightedge is mathematically proved impossible.
I came across this article while I'm searching for the ways of how to divide some angles into three equal parts. I am old and retired man but the big difference is that I don't mind what kinds of tools are used to trisect the angles. So, I am not the trisector at all. I just want to make a handmade protractor. My goal is to get an angle of one degree. I just wondered how each angle line is drawn on a protractor when I was a child. I had many questions around me when I was small but forgot most of them. But now I'm old and have much time to remember and think of some of them. So, I decided to try challenging those questions. And handmade protractor is one of them.
Here is a plastic protractor and my hand made one is next.
My plan was as follows,
(1) Draw an angle of 72 degrees.
I should learn how to draw a regular pentagon.
(2) Get a 24-degree angle by dividing 72 into three equal parts.
72÷3=24
(3) Get an 8-degree angle by dividing 24 by three.
24÷3=8
(4) Get a 4-degree angle by dividing 8 by 2.
8÷2=4
(5) Get a 2-degree angle by dividing 4 by 2.
4÷2=2
(6) Finally get a one-degree angle by dividing 2 by 2
2÷2=1
First, I must learn how to draw a regular pentagon.
I can draw a right pentagon by knowing the ratio of red segment and blue one is (√5+1) : 2.
Next, I picked up one tool to get a trisection. It is a L-shaped ruler. Following drawings show how to divide an angle into three equal parts.
I used this triangle instead of the L-shaped ruler. I use two line and two dots in red on the ruler.
This is how a 72-degree angle is divided into three equal parts.
72°÷3=24°
I am dividing a 24-degree angle into three equal parts of 8 degree angle.
I know how to divide any angle into two equal parts.
Finally, I got a one-degree angle.
Now I'm satisfied to finish my challenge that I thought of but gave up in my school days.
Thank you for reading.
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(511) How to change the light bulb of Pro-Globe [調べる]
I happened to see a plastic globe at a recycle store the other day. On the globe a lot of wild animals and famous sites are illustrated. It is a light globe. I instantly decided to buy it and presented to my wife. I don't know why but she likes globes very much.
This is an illuminated World Globe, so after checking its light on, I bought this. Next day my wife switched the light of globe on and she stared at many creatures and sites on the globe. I noticed that the top of the globe became hot soon in a few minutes. I thought an incandescent light bulb is used to illuminate this globe. So I decided to change the light bulb to LED lamp emitting less heat.
'Pro-Globe (c) Printed in Germany' is printed on the globe. Soon I knew on the internet, it is a product, Elenco Edu-Toys-Wildlife Globe. Its product description reads:
Product Description
Let your children discover the world with this amazing illuminated World Globe - with over 250 colorful illustrated images of the world's most spectacular animals and sites. Ideal as a night light, this learning globe has a dual image effect - additional creatures appear in the oceans when the light is switched on. This stunning globe is great for learning about different places in the world and allows your child to engage in endless journeys of fun and learning.
I knew how to change the bulb from Q&A of this product on the internet.
Question:
Just purchased the globe and the light won't stay on. Is anyone else having the same problem Not sure if it's worth returning.
Answer:
The light on my son's went out too, but I figured out how to change the bulb. Pull up on the black plastic that holds the top of the globe to the stand. Then you can remove the globe from the stand and get to the bulb to change it! Hope that helps!
By Dana Ferguson on September 28, 2016
By Dana Ferguson on September 28, 2016
I had my globe for about two weeks and the light went out as well.
By Tselena on January 31, 2015
By Tselena on January 31, 2015
Following above instruction, I pulled up on the black plastic and successfully removed the globe from the stand.
My light bulb can stay on,
but its screw part is a little squeezed. When unscrewed it wouldn't turn smoothly.
but its screw part is a little squeezed. When unscrewed it wouldn't turn smoothly.
110/120V, 25W, E12
Length 50mm, Diameter 25mm
Length 50mm, Diameter 25mm
On the bottom of the base caution is written,
CAUTION:
To reduce the risk of fire - use 25 Watt or smaller, 120V, type E12 lamp
Dry locations only
Made in China
To reduce the risk of fire - use 25 Watt or smaller, 120V, type E12 lamp
Dry locations only
Made in China
I bought a LED filament light bulb of 230lm (25W equivalent), 1.7W, 20000h life, Length 105mm, Diameter 35mm.
Though the LED bulb is much longer than the original bulb, I can put the globe back to the stand safely. This LED bulb cannot be used with a dimmable switch.
I got the light globe 2,200 yen, and changed the light bulb of 1,188 yen.
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