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Camellia Tea CeremonyIn the Muromachi period the idea of celebrating the '7 Gods of Fortune' began in Kyōto, and it is likely that the first Shichifukujin Mairi pilgrimage (都七福神まいり) originated at Ebisu-jinja (えびす神社).From Kyōto similar pilgrimages spread across Japan.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shichifukujin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shichifukujin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/7GodsofFortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7GodsofFortune</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E4%B8%83%E7%A6%8F%E7%A5%9E" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#七福神</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pilgrimage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pilgrimage</a>

Camellia Tea CeremonyEbisu-jinja's 'Tōka Ebisu Matsuri' (十日えびす祭 'Ebisu’s Festival on the 10th Day') is held around Ebisu's birthday on January 10th (he was born in the Year of the Tiger).As he god of business prosperity, fisherman, and good fortune, Ebisu is one of the most popular of the '7 Gods of Fortune' (七福神).<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E4%B8%83%E7%A6%8F%E7%A5%9E" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#七福神</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ebisu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ebisu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/7GodsofFortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7GodsofFortune</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shichifukujin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shichifukujin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Japan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/charms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#charms</a>

Bopson<a href="https://pol.social/tags/Japonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Japonia</a> <a href="https://pol.social/tags/ciekawostki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ciekawostki</a> <a href="https://pol.social/tags/Fukurokuju" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fukurokuju</a> to jedno z <a href="https://pol.social/tags/Shichifukujin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shichifukujin</a>, czyli siedmiu bóstw szczęścia. Widuje się je pojedynczo lub razem w postaci różnych wyobrażeń, figurek, ornamentów, a nawet zabawek. Buddyjski ( <a href="https://pol.social/tags/buddymz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#buddymz</a>) kapłan <a href="https://pol.social/tags/Tenkai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tenkai</a> nauczał, że na szczęście składa się siedem cnót: długowieczność, bogactwo, sława, szczerość, życzliwość, godność i wielkoduszność. Fukurokuju reprezentuje długowieczność i mądrość. Można go rozpoznać po wielkiej, owalnej głowie i małym ciałku. Nosi ze sobą zwój <a href="https://pol.social/tags/makimono" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#makimono</a>, oznaczający czas życia każdego człowieka. Czasem towarzyszy mu bociam, <a href="https://pol.social/tags/symbol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#symbol</a> długiego życia. W pierwszym wcieleniu był chińskim filozofem i prorokiem. > - fragment z <a href="https://pol.social/tags/UsagiYoimbo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UsagiYoimbo</a> księga 4. Notatki <a href="https://pol.social/tags/Stan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Stan</a>-Sakai

World History EncyclopediaIn Japanese folklore the Shichifukujin are the Seven Lucky Gods who may also be known as the Seven Gods of Happiness or the Seven Gods of Good Fortune. <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/Shichifukujin/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.worldhistory.org/Shichifukujin/</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ItsukushimaShrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ItsukushimaShrine</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Kami" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kami</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Shichifukujin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Shichifukujin</a>

Brian SmallSomeone on Mastodon shared <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/DavidGraeber?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DavidGraeber</a>'s review of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/CarlosSeveri?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CarlosSeveri</a>'s The <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ChimeraPrinciple?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChimeraPrinciple</a>. Now I want to read the book and wonder more about the roots of the <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Tanuki?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tanuki</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/RacoonDog?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RacoonDog</a> figures and the <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ShichiFukuJin?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShichiFukuJin</a> figures, Especially these wooden <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FukuRokuJyu?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FukuRokuJyu</a> figures. > Much of what we have considered “primitive art,” the author argues, were not meant as self-contained objects in their own right, or even as elements in some larger performance, but as memory cues to texts—usually to be performed in some sort of ritual context—whose exact nature is, often as not, entirely lost to us. These images were never meant to exist apart from words. Yet those words were a form of artistry in and of themselves. The conclusion immediately shatters half a dozen complacent assumptions we normally bring, unthinkingly, to any analysis of comparative aesthetics: the assumption of a simple distinction between “orality” and “literacy,” for example; the notion of “picture-writing”; most of our assumptions about the relationship between icon, ritual, and text. And that shattering of assumptions, in turn, proves endlessly productive. - <a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-concerning-mental-pivots-and-civilizations-of-memory?v=1676743668" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-concerning-mental-pivots-and-civilizations-of-memory?v=1676743668</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/七福神?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#七福神</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/福禄寿?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#福禄寿</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/たぬき?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#たぬき</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/タヌキ?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#タヌキ</a>

UncannyJapanPodcast :verified:The first Uncanny Japan of the New Year is out 🎉. Find out which of the Seven Lucky Gods you are, a little bit about your own character, and what your god advises you to do to be more happy and successful. Here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/5e5ywbcy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/5e5ywbcy</a><a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#podcast</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/podcastersofinstagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#podcastersofinstagram</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/newyear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newyear</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/goodluck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#goodluck</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/sevenluckygods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sevenluckygods</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/shichifukujin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shichifukujin</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/uncannyjapan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uncannyjapan</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/happynewyear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#happynewyear</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/happynewyear2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#happynewyear2023</a>

Jo with elbows up & chin upWork in Progress on a painting of a female version of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bishamon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bishamon</a>, one of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shichifukujin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shichifukujin</a> Seven Lucky Gods and part of a series I am doing with them as female incarnations. It's a large piece, 36x48" oil on gallery mounted canvas.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/warrior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#warrior</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NotTodaySatan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NotTodaySatan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#guardian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#peony</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lucky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lucky</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/goodluck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#goodluck</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/symbolicart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#symbolicart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spiritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spiritual</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spiritualart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spiritualart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastoart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/goddess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#goddess</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feministart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feministart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feminist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#japanese</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#buddhism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/buddhist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#buddhist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wipart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wipart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workinprogress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workinprogress</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oilpainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oilpainting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vajra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vajra</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/warriorwoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#warriorwoman</a>

Brian SmallBaked ceramic is better, for getting through the rain and a typhoon anyway. The orange thin-terracotta-like DaiKokuTen has been out by the gate through all kinds of weather for over a year now I think. I put him (he may have started out as a her, DaiKokuNyou from India...) down by the door for the typhoon. The Great Darkness might protect the house and, in a corner the wind would be less likely to break the ceramic. But the the pair, DaikokuTen with Ebisu, didn't make out to well. The pair was in a more protected place but what little rain got to them started taking off their paint. Fascinating to see that they are made out of what seems to be an un-baked ceramic or cement-like material. It seems biodegradable. I might just bury them out by the compost bins. Recycle shop owners will sometimes give these sort of figures away. I buy the woodeng FukuRokuJyu figures as fashion models: they look a little like Kropotkin. But the other happy figures like HoTei and these two are fun too. Now I know to avoid the melty figures and go for the terra-cotta-ish figures. That Tanuki raccon-dog figures are fascinating too: but a bit involved, bigger and lacquered and more expensive. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SevenLuckyGods?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SevenLuckyGods</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ShichiFukuJIn?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShichiFukuJIn</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/七福神?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#七福神</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/大黒天?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#大黒天</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/恵比須?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#恵比須</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/えびす?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#えびす</a>

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