A depiction of Kasuga Myōjin (春日明神), one of the deities of Kasuga Taisha Grand Shrine (春日大社) in Nara, dressed in court robes and sitting in a carriage with his face obscured by clouds, with the corresponding Buddhist deities of the shrine displayed above
Color on silk dating to the Kamakura period (1185-1333), painted by Takashina Takakane (高階隆兼), from the collection of the Fujita Art Museum (藤田美術館) in Osaka
Image from "Shintō: The Sacred Art of Ancient Japan" edited by Victor Harris, published by the British Museum Press. 2001, page 169
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Weekend treat: for an annual event at Nezu Museum in spring!
28/4/2023
An instructor of a course in Japanese Art talked about an annual event at Nezu Museum in spring, and it is "Irises(screen)" by Korin Ogata exhibition. Then, I was being so curious about it that I was off to this art gallery in Minami-Aoyama all the way after school.
This is known for its entrance as beautiful architecture designed by Kengo Kuma and in a lot of magazines, I remembered. Therefore, I was delighted to see it. Yet, the place appeared to be too exclusive for me, and I found elderly people being formal in their attire but living within a kilometer suitable for it. I was being a little out of place.
Having said that, I immersed myself in the exhibits/collections of the gallery, knew of Otsu-e, a folk art in 17th century in Shiga, and had fun strolling the Buddhism themed garden. I want to take my parents there one day.
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Panel one has a view into Kakashi's bedroom from just outside the open window. We look over the bed where Tenzō's Anbu mask is resting and past the flapping curtain, and see the spot where Kakashi and Tenzō are sitting. Tenzō, still crouched by the side of Kakashi's bed, is mostly hidden aside from the top of his head.
Kakashi is sitting with a loose, tired posture, looking wryly out the open window.
"And then you came to my apartment, " Kakashi says. "Maybe it felt safe and secluded enough to have your breakdown in. Which is flattering, but to be fair, my wards are usually immaculate."
The second panel, they are sitting, knees touching knees, facing each other. Kakashi's eyes are closed, like he's trying to force a smile, but not succeeding very well. He has one arm wrapped around himself.
Tenzō is leaning forward towards Kakashi, eyebrows low over his eyes.
"But I didn't plan—I didn't choose to do this, to feel this," Tenzō argues.
"Who would?" Kakashi asks.
He continues, "The only drawback of having trust, of having a place to be vulnerable, is that sometimes you'll have to be vulnerable in it, I guess. Hurts, huh?"
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☆ Kunugi Ayano // Pia♥Carrot e Youkoso!!G.O. "Maid Type"
☆ SIF EX / 1/6 / Yamato
☆ September / December 2007 ¥7,480
☆ Sculpt Sunny Day
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From @jojowiki and @jojonews on Twitter
The cast of the Phantom Blood Musical has been revealed in their costumes!
Jonathan Joestar: Yuya Matsushita & Shotaro Arisawa
Dio Brando: Mamoru Miyano
Erina Pendleton: Miisha Shimizu
Robert E. O. Speedwagon: Young Dais
Will A. Zeppeli: Yoshihisa Higashiyama & Yusuke Hirose
Jack the Ripper: Yamato Kochi
Wang Chan: Jumpei Shimada
Dario Brando: Kong Kuwata
George Joestar I: Tetsuya Bessho
Source: Official Site, fan translated source
“JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood” Musical
Date: February 2024
Location: Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
Original work: Hirohiko Araki “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” (Shueisha Jump Comics)
Script: Tsuneyasu Motoyoshi
Direction: Ney Hasegawa
Music: Dove Attia
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A contemporary reconstruction of the now rather faded 11th-century murals gracing the wooden doors of the Phoenix Hall at Byōdōin Temple (平等院) in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, showing various scenes of Amida Buddha (阿弥陀如来) descending to welcome the departed faithful to his Western Pure Land with details of Kyoto’s topography visible in the background
Image from the temple’s official website
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I came up with another Tenzo HC that I think you'll like. We all know Tenzo likes reading about architecture, but what if he's also really into flowers and their meanings. So like Petunias are supposed to represent anger or being angry at someone. And then what if... Since ANBU just emotionally stunts our poor Shinobi, what if the way he learns to best communicate is by handing people the relevant flowers to express his feelings.
And we all love that HC of him growing flowers, what if the relevant flowers pop up because he associates that feeling with that flower? Like when it's a really really intense feeling, they just start growing.
Also, i know i share my HC with you a lot but i just feel like you always appreciate them <3
its so funny that u mention this bc just a day or two before i recieved it i was writing yamato and felt compelled to have him use a little flower symbolism! I didn't have him growing any flowers tho, just...ominously looming symbolism clinging onto a heavy thought.
i think this can be a really interesting HC to play with, especially when we consider how nebulous "flower language" is—like, for example the red spider lily has, apparently, the meaning of "elope with me" over here in the US, but in japan, the red spider lily is heavily associated with death, lovers separating, etc-you will see it in anime very often, i remember there was one i watched as a kid (hellgirl, i think?) that had them Everywhere and very ominously
and then there's cases where the flower is Supposed to have a meaning, but bc of how its practically used it has a different or even sometimes contradictory meaning,
for example the lily, in christian spaces the white lily is generally supposed to be indicative of innocence—which is probably why its used at so many funerals (symbolizing god washing out the sins after death and making the soul innocent once more, or something)
but the fact that its used at so many funerals means that most people i know, when they see a lily, don't think "aw, how sweet..." we tend to go "oh god. the funeral flower." some even can't stand the smell of it
one of my friends gifted me a piece of jasmine incense he had got once for the same reason, that was a Strongly Funereal smell for him, but it was not for me.
then, there's also the individual meanings that flowers hold for people—
this is jewelweed, one of the most important flowers to me personally! it's native to most swampy, moist areas of the USA, it grows very fast, and tall, and spreads really quickly.
when i was a kid, we'd call this stuff "poppers" on account of how when you touch the green, dangling seed-pods, they would pop! like literally, they would explode, launching their seeds everywhere! here's a video of that.
I'm told that in the language of flowers In General, they represent motherly love, but to me, because of how i played with them as a kid, they will always specifically represent childish joy and wonder, as well as a certain amount of resilience due to how quickly and how well they take over an area (say hello to one of the few plants that can take on the invasive garlic mustard!)
this all to say, the associations between meanings and plants could be something that's really fun to play with—some of his meanings could be gathered from books, some of them could be gathered from the cultural knowledge he has access to, and more still could be developed from his own personal experiences with plants.
i'm not sure where i fall on how much yamato would internalize flower language...or i guess even what kind of flowers hed care about? i see him as somebody who tries to be, first and foremost, practical...
flower language is very poetic and mysterious, but there's practicality in mystery too—he's a ninja, after all, (and, ur right, given Anbu he seems to be a fairly repressed ninja at that) using symbols in order to communicate certain feelings could be very practical, if there are things that are difficult to say...
the only thing is that the person receiving the flowers from him would have to also know what they meant, in order for this to be practical...or there'd have to be a shared understanding of things related to the flowers.
anyway! ur right i did appreciate this, ty for sharing it
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