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ilikedetectives · 1 year

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Osaka

#Osaka #Japan #street photography #Osaka Castle #Shitennoji #photography #mine #myreallifephotography #japan2019

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pandainthecar · 6 months

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母のスマホ情報を求めて

帰社時のウォーキング

20231010

#walking #Shitennoji #torre #pagoda

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itsjamespatrick · 1 year

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Journey through a thousand Temple ⛩ . . . . . . . . . . #osaka #japan #shitennoji #tokyo #travel #kyoto #fashion #osakajapan #japanese #japantravel #instagood #japantrip #art #photography #love #photo #travelphotography #visitjapan #japon #ootd #like #instagram #umeda #travelgram #jdm #vintage #newyork #nagoya #dotonbori #japanesefood (at Shitennō-ji) https://www.instagram.com/p/CopOof7SVmR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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niuniente · 7 months

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Hey Niu~ Do you have any smaller wonders you'd recommend visiting in Japan

Sure!

OSAKA

If you go to Osaka around the end of a month, there's a monthly temple flea market in the Shitennoji temple yard. It's arranged on 21st and 22nd of each month, and regular people are selling there their old stuff, as well as booths selling vintage kimonos, yukatas, haoris etc., ceramics, decorations, lots of antique items, statues etc. Take a subway to Tennoji station, the temple is next it. Read more here!

In Osaka, near Tenma JR railwaystation, is a takoyaki shop owned by an 86 year old lady called Hiroko. She's been making takoyakis for 60 years in that shop. You might have seen this image set of Hiroko giving a piece of her mind about people complaining that her food is too yellow (if not, see it - it's hilarious!) Her shop is called たこ焼き寛子（ひろこ), Takoyaki Hiroko (Hiroko). The address is 5 Chome-6-3 Tenjinbashi, Kita Ward, Osaka, 530-0041, Japan. If you use subway, get off at Ogimatchi station to get to her store.

If you love toys and anime merch, there are two good spots for these in Osaka; one is the famous Den Den Town and other one is Kiddy Land in Umeda.

You can get to Den Den Town the easiest from Nipponbashi metro station. Just head towards south. You can also walk from Namba to Den Den Town as it's just right the next corner.

Kiddy Land is a bit harder to locate in the gigantic Hankyuu department store (which is like multiple building spreading across the whole Umeda) but you can get there the best from Umeda station. Kiddy Land has lots of toy stores, like Miffy, San-X, and a mixed store of everything cute, and also a Lego store. If you go out from the building from the door next to the Lego store, you can walk a few ten meters to a big Loft-store. It also has some merch, typically San-X and Sanrio and Disney stuff, but on the top floor of the same building there's an anime store. They sell lots of art books, replica swords and also special collectible statues like Japanese deities.

Special mentioning goes to the Namba Daiso (Namba Daiso Nansan-dori). It has 5 floors, all stuff with 100 yens. It's very near Namba metro station, easy to find! If you want to get super fancy and you've got a big budget, the Takashimaya department store is near this Daiso. You can find all kind of food items there, some with ridiculous prices. There's also Daimaru department store in Namba in close proximity - they sell fresh made taiyaki cakes in the bottom floor's food section.

KYOTO

Near Kyoto, you can find a small town of Arashiyama. It is the most well-known for its ancient wooden bridge and bamboo forests. People go just walk around into the bamboo forest. Many movies and TV series has been filmed in that forest. There's a direct train service to Arashiyama from Kyoto. Arashiyama is especially gorgeous at the end of November when the fall has arrived to Kansai area. It's apparently also super pretty during cherry flower season in spring. There are lots of temples in a small area, too, if you want to explore them.

(Here's the famous bridge).

In Kyoto, there's a design shop of SOU SOU. Now, SOU SOU makes and sells handmade tabi shoes, kimonos, yukatas, string bags, dishware, and wonderful print tabi socks but they also have their own, traditional Japanese café at their Kyoto store called Sou Sou Zaifu. You can get only coffee and matcha tea here - the order is hand made in order in front of you. It's very quiet and idyllic, intimate place. I accidentally went here to find shelter from a rain and it was so lovely. Even the shop itself is worth the visit, if you're interested in fashion and design! Read more here.

(Sou Sou Zaifu cafe. It seems the same guy is still working here. He was very friendly!)

TOKYO

If you travel in Tokyo, about 45 minutes by train from Tokyo is the city of Saitama. Saitama has a Sayama Hills at Tokorozama, which is also known as The Totoro Forest. Hayao Miyazaki has taken inspiration to Totoro from Sayama Hills. It was hard to find any information of this place in English (and even in Japanese!) in the past, but nowadays there's information in English. Read more here (with a Japanese map)

#japan #kyoto #tokyo #osaka #travel tips #travel guide #ask niu

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demonslayedher · 7 months

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My Research: You know, for as much time as we've been spending together, you've been surprisingly well-behaved.

Me: I might just be containing myself well. I also might not be.

My Research: Today I must have you learn about the classical dances and courtly music performed at one of the oldest temples in Japan, in honor of the sixth century prince--

Me: Yes, yes, Shitennoji Shoryoe Bugaku, we've all heard of it, but I admit it's a bit too austere for my tastes (even if I am curious about that "Kochou" dance) (also, tee hee, "Tennoji.")

My Research: One such dance inspired by the styles of the Korean peninsula is "Soriko," which you can watch here, in which dancers cover their faces with paper and--

Me: OH MY GOSH

My Research: Well, good to have you interested. This is a 竈祭舞ー

Me: Wait, wait, hold up--is that pronounced, "Kamado Matsuri no Mai"? As in a dance celebrating a... you know, a... a hearth?

My Research: Yes... that "kamado," not the more uncommon 竈門 which includes the "gate" kanji as more blatant reference to the hearth being one of the "gateways" through which impurity can enter a home and make a family sick, which therefore needed special attention in order to keep the family healthy. Also, I'm giving you serious side-eye right now. Don't interrupt me.

Me: No, no, I'm with you! It makes sense for certain areas of the home to require more mindfulness to things like hygiene, like in preventing food borne illness. Folk beliefs are totally full of wisdom, I got you.

My Research: You only know that because of... never mind, I won't say it. The hearth is also the source of sustenance for a house's inhabitants, so the state of a hearth also reflects the state of the family. To say things are lively around a hearth is to say that a family is doing well, to say that the hearth is broken is to say that they've lost their fortune, and so on. You could also think of the fire itself sometimes being a cause for danger, something susceptible to evil influence, like how it might burn humans, so it took having a god of the health to protect against that too. These are reasons why the god of the hearth has been worshiped since ancient times, not only for protection from the dangers of fire, but also for prosperity.

Me: And this dance for this 'kamado' god has dancers dressed with covered faces and nice baggy clothes and stuff. That is wonderful.

My Research: The association with how fire can also be a purifying substance led to also thinking of this hearth god as a god of fire, a hi-no-kami---

Me: *SCREAMS*

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nobrashfestivity · 2 years

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Unknown Daishido at Shitennoji Temple Woodblock Print Late Muromachi/Early Edo (Early Buddhist works were usually unmarked therefore the dating is attributed) Size (H x W): 5 x 3.25 (inches)

Ronin Gallery

#unknown #japanese art #woodblock print #japanese

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earthanthem · 1 year

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(via Pinterest)

Eiki Yasuda

ウメ（梅） / Prunus mume / Ume, Japanese apricot

四天王寺、Shitennoji Temple, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

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japan2024 · 24 days

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Day 9 April 4 Osaka

Osaka Castle and cherry blossoms were top of today’s agenda.

Other points of interest on our 22,800 step jaunt include:

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine

The 6th century Shitennoji Temple

The Isshinji Temple

The retro Shinsekai neighborhood

The Kuromon Ichiba Market

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hetamyuist · 11 months

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anyway a realization just in time for pride month: it makes perfect sense that shitenhouji is the Gay SchoolTM with Canon GaysTM, because the patron deity of shitennoji temple (the temple that both shitenhouji and the irl school it's based on are attached to) is bodhisattva kannon/guanshiyin...... who is traditionally nb/transfem. queer patron deity, queer students [it's all coming together.png]

#it might not be intentional on konomi's part but it's very cute nonetheless #tenipuri

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lotte-travels · 1 year

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JAPAN. Day 10

Shitennoji Temptle, part 1

The buildings were so pretty and the stone gardens as well

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onigiriforears · 1 year

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日本の歴史366 Day 53

2月22日 Summary:

Prince Shoutoku, acting regent for Empress Suiko, used his position to spread the Buddhist faith across Japan. Both the Shitennoji temple and the Hōryū-ji temple were commissioned by him as a means to promote Buddhism.

Vocab beneath the break:

聖徳太子しょうとくたいし Shoutoku Taishi (574-627); Prince Shoutoku [x]

太子たいし crown prince

命日めいにち death anniversary; monthly return of the date of someone's death

同時どうじ simultaneous; concurrent; same time; synchronous; together

同時にどうじに coincident with; while; simultaneously

話しかけるはなしかける to begin to talk; to start a conversation; to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone)

昭和時代しょうわじだい Showa era

お札おさつ bill; note (currency)

肖像しょうぞう portrait; likeness; picture

王子おうじ prince

生まれるうまれる to be born

様々さまざま various; varied; diverse; all sorts of

制度せいど system; institution; organization

つくりあげる to build up; to complete; to construct; to create; to put together; to invent

それぞれ each; respectively

的確てきかく accurate; precise; exact; appropriate; apt; right

答えこたえ answer; reply; response

返すかえす to respond (with); to retort; to reply; to say back; to return (something)

推古天皇すいこてんおう Empress Suiko (33rd monarch of Japan; first of the only eight women to take on the role of Empress Regnant in Japan) [x alongside other sources that i cant remember lol]

摂政せっしょう regency; regent

として as (i.e. in the role of)

支えるささえる to support; to sustain; to hold up; to defend

厩戸の王子うまやどのおうじ Prince Umayado (Prince Shoutoku's real name)

後世こうせい posterity; future generations; future life

呼ぶよぶ to call out (to); to call; to invoke

天皇てんおう Emperor of Japan

助けるたすける to help; to assist; to save; to rescue

大事なだいじな precious; important; serious; valuable

役割やくわり part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties

務めつとめ service; duty; business; responsibility; task

冠位十二階かんいじゅうにかい first system to rank officials into 12 levels (603 CE) [x]

十七条憲法じゅうしちじょうけんぽう The Seventeen-Article Constitution [x]

制定せいてい enactment; establishment; creation

遣隋使けんずいし Japan's envoy/Japanese missions to Sui dynasty China

送るおくる to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit

隋ずい Sui Dynasty (of China; 581-618)

交流こうりゅう exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; mingling; mixing; coming together

法隆寺ほうりゅうじ Hōryū-ji (Buddhist temple in Nara)

四天王寺してんのうじ Shitennoji (Buddhist temple in Osaka; commissioned by Prince Shoutoku)

建てるたてる to build; to construct (e.g. a building)

#shay's taking notes #japanese history 366 #japanese history #japanese culture #japanese figures #japanese #vocab #jpnstudynet #learn japanese #study japanese #studyspo #studyblr #langblr #japanese langblr #japanese studyblr #buddhism #prince shoutoku

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yaycheese · 6 months

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Hochigaki! Kyoto - Full Fushimi Inari loop - Byōdō-in - Westside 33 (metal hammered pots) - Ichihara Heibei Shōten (chopsticks) - Naito Shoten (brooms) - Honke Owariya (kyotos oldest resto, soba) - Dustpan! - Sun umbrella Tokyo - Meiji Jingū (iris garden) - Jindaiji Temple (mame daishi statue and 2 seals) - Ryusenji Temple (seal with 2 types combined) - Mixology Salon Ginza - Grape sandos - Bongen Coffee Ginza - COFFEE 葵 - 裏の山の木の子 (mushroom bouquet hot pot) - Tokyu Kabuchiko Tower Tokyo / Shimokitazawa - Trefac style - Ogawa Coffee Laboratory - Sarutahiko Coffee Yoru no Bu - Andon - Café Trois Chambres - Flamingo Shimokitazawa - Jet Set - Gallery Hana Tokyo / Ebisu - Ebisu: https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1303/A130302/ - Sowado - Tachinomiya (standing bars) - Ebisu Yokocho (alley with small restaurants, bars) - Afuri (ramen) *** Mame daishi seals http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/ofuda-gansandaishi.html http://seikouminzoku.sakura.ne.jp/sub7-21.html Mame Daishi // Osaka http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/shitennoji.html http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/shitennoji-rokujiraisando.html Mame Daishi // Kyoto - We have, but there may be other seals: http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/shinnyodo-amida.html - Unavailable last visit: http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/sonshoin.html - We have: http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/rozanji.html - Otsu: http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/guhoji.html - Otsu: http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/sanzenin.html Mame Daishi // Tokyo http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/meguro-fudo.html http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/kaneiji-kaizando.html (+40min) http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/jindaiji.html (+60min) http://chanekovsky.web.fc2.com/kitain.html

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pandainthecar · 10 months

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散策を兼ねてウォーキング

二つの時代の塔

20230712

#torres #Tennoji #Shitennoji

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itsjamespatrick · 1 year

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Journey through a thousand Temple ⛩ . . . . . . . . . . #osaka #japan #shitennoji #tokyo #travel #kyoto #fashion #osakajapan #japanese #japantravel #instagood #japantrip #art #photography #love #photo #travelphotography #visitjapan #japon #ootd #like #instagram #umeda #travelgram #jdm #vintage #newyork #nagoya #dotonbori #japanesefood (at Shitennō-ji) https://www.instagram.com/p/CopMCHkyvBl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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whencyclopedfr · 11 months

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Prince Shōtoku

Le prince Shōtoku (574-622), régent du Japon de 594 à 622, est l'un des personnages les plus célèbres de toute l'histoire du Japon. Le prince était un grand partisan de la culture chinoise et du bouddhisme qu'il a répandus pendant son règne en encourageant des liens plus étroits avec la Chine, en introduisant les principes du gouvernement chinois, en créant une constitution et en construisant de nombreux temples à travers le Japon, dont des sites célèbres tels que Shitennoji et Horyuji.

#Histoire #PrinceShotoku #Horyuji #Ennin

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beautiful-world-travel · 1 year

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Osaka

Osaka is a vibrant city in Japan that is known for its rich culture, delicious food, and stunning architecture. It is one of the most popular destinations in Japan and attracts millions of visitors each year. If you are planning to travel to Osaka, here is everything you need to know to make the most of your trip.

Getting to Osaka

Osaka is easily accessible from all major cities in Japan. You can get to Osaka by train, bus, or airplane. The city is served by two airports, Kansai International Airport and Osaka International Airport (Itami). Kansai International Airport is the main international airport and is located about 50 km south of Osaka. Itami Airport is a domestic airport and is located about 10 km north of Osaka.

If you are coming from Tokyo, the best way to get to Osaka is by bullet train (Shinkansen). The journey takes about two and a half hours and offers spectacular views of the Japanese countryside. There are also overnight buses that run between Tokyo and Osaka.

Getting around Osaka

Osaka is a very walkable city, and many of the attractions are located within walking distance of each other. However, if you prefer not to walk, there are several transportation options available. The city has an extensive subway network that connects all major neighborhoods. The subway is clean, efficient, and easy to use. There are also buses that run throughout the city, but they can be a bit more complicated to navigate.

If you plan to do a lot of sightseeing, it’s a good idea to purchase an Osaka Amazing Pass. This pass gives you free entry to over 40 popular attractions and unlimited use of public transportation for one or two days. It’s a great way to save money and make the most of your time in Osaka.

Things to do in Osaka

Osaka is a city that has something for everyone. Whether you are interested in history, culture, food, or shopping, there are plenty of things to do and see in Osaka.

Osaka Castle

Osaka Castle is one of the most famous landmarks in Osaka and is a must-visit attraction. The castle was built in the 16th century by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and played a significant role in the unification of Japan. The castle has been restored and now houses a museum that showcases the history of the castle and the city of Osaka.

Dotonbori

Dotonbori is a lively neighborhood in Osaka that is known for its street food, shopping, and nightlife. The area is home to the famous Glico Man billboard and is a popular spot for taking photos. It’s also a great place to try some of Osaka’s famous street food, such as takoyaki (octopus balls) and okonomiyaki (Japanese-style pancakes).

Shitennoji Temple

Shitennoji Temple is one of the oldest temples in Japan and is a great place to learn about the history and culture of Japan. The temple was founded in 593 AD and has been rebuilt several times over the centuries. The temple is located in the Tennoji neighborhood and is surrounded by a beautiful park.

Umeda Sky Building

The Umeda Sky Building is a stunning skyscraper in the heart of Osaka. The building has two towers that are connected by a floating observatory called the “Floating Garden Observatory.” The observatory offers breathtaking views of the city and is a popular spot for photos.

Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan

The Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan is one of the largest aquariums in the world and is home to over 30,000 sea creatures from around the world. The aquarium is divided into several exhibits that showcase different habitats, such as the Pacific Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef.

#Osaka #Japan #Travel

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