Kazusa Daruma

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Kazusa Daruma 上総だるま

ＭＡＴＳＵＭＯＴＯ　ＳＥＴＳＵＴＡＲＯ
　　松本　節太郎　


. . . . . His wonderful Daruma Colletcion !

Most of the dolls are made from torn pages of old books and magazines. Check the LINK for many many more.


Good Luck Symbols 財宝




Pumpkin




Lucky Fish Symbols




Princess Camellia




Plants and beetles




Other motives

Eto, zodiac animals 干支
Seven Gods of Good Luck 七福神
Vegetables, yasai 野菜
pine, bamboo, plum, shoochikubai 松竹梅
lucky hammar, ofuku kozuchi おふく小槌
kakakuri flowers
plum and bush warbler, uguisu to ume
tsurukame 鶴亀
koma こま. 駒
kooshin monkey　庚申
Princess Phoenix 姫だるま　鳳凰


The original Kazusa Daruma, with a hollow face




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The Main Story is here

- AYAME Daruma, Iris-Daruma 　あやめだるま　菖蒲達磨
Kashiwa Daruma　柏だるま


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Kazusa Province (上総国, Kazusa-no kuni)
was a province of Japan in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture.It lies on in the middle of the Bōsō Peninsula (房総半島), whose name takes its first kanji from the name of Awa Province and its second from Kazusa and Shimōsa Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was Sōshū (総州) or Nansō (南総).

Kazusa is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō. Under the Engishiki classification system, Kazusa was ranked as a "great country" (大国) and a far country (遠国). Along with Kōzuke and Hitachi, it was originally one of the provinces where an imperial prince was nominally assigned as governor.

Kazusa was originally part of a larger territory known as Fusa Province (総国, occasionally 捄国, Fusa-no-kuni), which was divided into “upper” and “lower” portions (i.e. Kazusa and Shimōsa) during the reign of Emperor Kōtoku (645-654).
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. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 .


我星は上総の空をうろつくか
waga hoshi wa Kazusa no sora o urotsuku ka

sky over Kazusa--
is my star up there
prowling?
Tr. David Lanoue



水仙やせ中にあてる上総山
suisen ya senaka ni ateru Kazusa yama

daffodils--
I show Kazusa mountains
my back

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This hokku is from 1812 (Bunka 9). In the 3rd-5th months of 1812 Issa was on the road in Kazusa (in modern Chiba Prefecture), and on 6/18 he arrived back in his hometown. On 6/9 he was in Ueda in Nagano Pref., according to his hokku dairy. So this hokku was written a little later than 6/9, probably just after Issa returned on 6/18 to his hometown in the Shinano mountains, which are not anywhere near Kazusa. No day date is given above the hokku.
The Kazusa mountains are far to the east, a little farther away from his hometown than Edo.
source : Chris Drake



上総山, modern Nokogiriyama　鋸山

Famous for its steep cliffs and many stone Buddhas, and in modern days, for a big cliff Buddha statue.

When taking a boat crossing the bay from Tokyo, you can see the cliff from far away.
Nowadays there is a cable car up to the top.

Mount Nokogiri (鋸山, Nokogiri-yama) is a low mountain on the Bōsō Peninsula on Honshu, Japan. It lies on the southern border of the city of Futtsu and the town Kyonan in Awa District in Chiba Prefecture.
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初空の行留り也上総山
hatsuzora no yukidomari nari kazusa yama

the year's first sky
hits a dead end...
Kazusa mountains
Tr. David Lanoue


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