Gregory's Server🥚GACHA ODDITIES🐣
I have a particular soft spot for gachapon (ガシャポン/ガチャポン), those little capsule toys you find all over Japan.
Of all the gacha oddities to be found, surely 'Kabuki Owls' (カブクロウ) have to be up there with the strangest.
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💌KYŌTO'S CASANOVA❤️🔥 Takenaka-jinja (竹中稲荷神社) is a small but beautiful sub-shrine of Yoshida-jinja (吉田神社). Standing on the western summit of Yoshida-yama, the forlorn grounds betray the shrine's vibrant history of dashing poets, civil disorder and butterfly dances. Most of the shrine records have been lost, but in other works there is mention of a vast, snaking tunnel of shrine gates leading from mountain base to the worship hall. During its heyday Takenaka-jinja's snaking tunnel of vermillion gates rivaled those found at Fushimi Inari (at this location the shrine gates are a fairly recent addition). Locals would joke that in the pouring rain it was possible to stay dry on the climb up the mountain as the gates were so numerous and so densely packed together! #Takenakajinja #Yoshidayama #Kyoto #torii #FushimiInari #吉田山 #竹中稲荷神社 #京都 #鳥居 🎇🏮CHINESE LANTERN FESTIVAL🏮🎆 Kyōto has many light-up events during the autumn, but Manpuku-ji's is something to behold. As one might expect from one of the country's few Chinese-style temples, the colourful lanterns are heavily influenced by festivals on the mainland. Manpuku-ji (萬福寺) in Uji, home to the Ōbaku Zen sect (黄檗宗), was founded in 1661 by the Chinese monk Yinyuan Longqi (隱元隆琦 aka Ingen Ryūki 1592-1673). It is considered to be Japan's greatest Chinese-style temple. Ingen (隱元隆琦) is thought to have introduced many things to Japan from the mainland, including green beans, watermelons, lotus roots, the Ming Dynasty style of writing, Buddhist cuisine, and sencha tea. #隱元隆琦 #Ingen #Obakuzen #zen #Manpukuji #Uji #Japan #chineselanternfestival 👃THE SCENT OF AUTUMN🍂 I wish Mastodon had Smell-O-Vision, because Kyōto is blanketed in the wonderful fragrance of kinmokusei (金木犀) that I'd love to share with you. Just outside the teahouse there's a giant kinmokusei bush🥰 #kinmokusei #金木犀 #Kyoto #京都 #CamelliaGardenTeahouse #teaceremony telling of autumn, As autumn deepens the fragrance of sweet osmanthus, harbinger of Kyōto's finest season, gently hangs in the air. #Kyoto #Japan #kinmokusei #金木犀 #京都 #sweetosmanthus #Tenryuji #Arashiyama 🍵🏖️TEA ON THE EDGE🍃🌄 With each new outdoor tea ceremony, Nao-san gets a little more daring...she's even expressed a desire for some sort of bungee jump-tea combo in the future (time to start Crowdfunding🤔). For autumn's expedition, tea making on a cliff edge😵💫 #Japan #野点 #Wakayama #和歌山 #cliffedge #teaceremony #茶道 #matcha #抹茶 It was a blustery day at 'Bandoko-teien' (番所庭園), a beautifully manicured garden landscaped atop a stretch of cliff. The promontory, which juts out into Wakayama Bay, has long been known as the 'nose of the Bansho' (番所の鼻)...'bansho' or 'bandoko' (番所) means 'guardhouse'👀 #Bandokoteien #番所庭園 #Japan #Wayakama #和歌山 #和歌山県 #野点 #teaonthego #teaceremony 💦TRAVERSING THE RAPIDS🚣♂️ The famous poet Susukida Kyūkin (薄田泣菫 d.1945), upon completing his first major collection 'The Departing Spring' (ゆく春), bound the originals in a koto string, weighed them with stones, and tossed them to the water god in the depths of the Hozu River. The Hozugawa Kudari (保津川下り lit. 'Down the Hozu River') takes 300,000 visitors a year through the Hozu Gorge (保津峡). #Kyoto #京都 #Japan #Hozugawa #HozugawaKudari #保津川下り #保津峡 #Arashiyama 💦THE MEDICINE BUDDHA'S LOTUSES🪷 dew from a lotus- When his consort fell deathly sick in 680, Emperor Tenmu (天武天皇) ordered the construction of Yakushi-ji (薬師寺) as a prayer for her recovery. The emperor's act of devotion worked, and his consort not only survived, but went on to succeed him as Empress Jitō (持統天皇 645-703). Yakushi-ji originally stood beneath Mt. Miminashi in Kashihara (耳成山)/橿原), site of the then capital, Fujiwara-kyō (藤原京 694-710). 🥤THE SOLSTICE🌞 'Geshi' (夏至), the 'summer solstice', marks a period of purification in Japan. Now that the first half of the year has passed thanks are given, and prayers made that the second half (beginning with fiercely hot months) will be healthy and misfortune free. In the traditional Japanese calendar June 21st-26th is 'Natsukarekusa karuru' (乃東枯), 'Self-heal withers'. This is part of the June 21st-July 6th micro season known simply as 'Geshi' (夏至 'Summer Solstice'). 🌧️🟣HYDRANGEA🔵🌿 In early summer hydrangeas begin to bloom, their many petalled flower heads bursting into life like exploding rockets in a miniature fireworks display. these hydrangeas- on the head mound In hanakotoba (花言葉), the Japanese language of flowers, hydrangeas carry the meaning of 'patience' and 'cool-headedness', but this was not always the case. #Japan #Kyoto #hydrangea #ajisai #紫陽花 #hanakotoba #languageofflowers |
As I was cleaning out my little odds-and-ends box I found these 'social media' charms (also from a gacha).
Typically sold at shrines & temples, omamori are protective amulets. The most common type is a brocade pouch containing a prayer or sacred image.
1) Protection from offensive replies クソリプ厄除
2) Prayer for likes いいね増祈願
3) Protection from being blocked ブロック厄除
4) Prayer for creating a buzz バズ祈願
5) Prayer to increase followers フォロワー増祈願
6) Protection from being the target of an online mob 炎上厄除