2008/01/08

Takamatsu Toshitsugu

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Takamatsu Toshitsugu
高松寿嗣 ( たかまつ としつぐ )


Toshitsugu Takamatsu (高松 寿嗣, Takamatsu Toshitsugu)'s real first name was Hisatsugu but he changed it later to Toshitsugu using the same Kanji but different pronunciation. He was born on 10 March 1887 in Akashi and died on 2 April 1972.
Master of Martial Arts.

He had a cat (Jiro) and enjoyed painting very much.

He traveled through Korea and Mongolia to China at the age of 21, taught martial arts and delivered many battles on life or death. He learned 18 Korean and Chinese martial arts from Kim Kei-Mei. He taught martial arts at an English school in China and had over 1000 students. He was the bodyguard of the last Chinese Emperor Puyi. He became Tendai Buddhism priest in 1919.

He was well known in Japan as a Grandmaster of Ju-Jutsu and Bojutsu but many people were surprised by his death to hear that he was a true Ninja Grandmaster (of 9 schools).

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LINKS about Takamatsu


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Daruma painted by Takamatsu Sensei


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Daruma on a Rush-Leaf, Royoo Daruma 芦葉達磨

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2008/01/01

Mouse (nezumi)

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Mouse Daruma, nezumi Daruma
ねずみだるま

papermachee doll




on the back the inscription for 2008


子だるま


高さ11cm-幅10cm-奥行9cm
11 cm high, 10 cm wide, 9 cm deep
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At the Daruma Market at Temple Jindai-ji 
深大寺だるま市 2007



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Temple Jindai-Ji and Daruma


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New Year Greeting Card


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New Year Cards nengajoo年賀状 with Daruma

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From the temple Shofuju-Ji (Shoofukuji) 勝福寺
near Odawara
The Daruma for this year was made by Arai Store.
http://www.darumayahonpo.com/top_index.html



荒井だるま屋のオリジナル干支だるま、
2008年はかわいい「ねずみだるま」

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Self-made mascott for 2008


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Mickey Mouse, another nezumi


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100 shades of mouse gray (hyaku nezu) 江戸百鼠


. . . 2008 - the Year of the Mouse


. Ne 子 / nezumi 鼠  Rat, Mouse Amulets .


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2007/12/21

Nachi Stone

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Nachi Black Stone 那智黒のだるま





Face Detail


Photo from my friend Ishino.

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Daruma Museum Reference

Kumano and Nachi ― Hunting for Stone Daruma
熊野と那智のだるま狩り



. Folk Toys from Wakayama .

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2007/12/17

Hagoita Shuttlecock

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Hagoita Shuttlecock

hagoita 羽子板 

is a sort of game like badminton or shuttlecock, with a wooden paddle and small balls with feathers attached to them. It is a traditional game for the New Year Holidays. Little girls play it dressed in kimono.


If you look closely, the girl holds a small board with Daruma in her left hand.

From the Japan Times, December 2007

© Photo: SATOKO KAWASAKI,
Japan Times, December 18, 2007





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shuttlecock, battledore and haiku


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2007/12/15

Taisen Deshimaru

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haiku flowers -
Japanese seeds
for the whole world




For Taisen Deshimaru
who brought Zen seeds to France




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Taisen Deshimaru (birth name: Yasuo Deshimaru) (1914-1982) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. Born in the Saga Prefecture of Kyushu, Deshimaru was raised by his grandfather, a former Samurai before the Meiji Revolution, and by his mother, a devout follower of the Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism.

He received dharma transmission from Master Yamada Reirin.

In 1967, Deshimaru came to Europe and settled in Paris in order to fulfill his master's wish and spread the teachings of Zen. In the 1970's, his mission grew and he received dharma transmission from Master Yamada Reirin and became kaikyosokan (head of Japanese Soto Zen for a particular country or continent) in Europe.

He trained many disciples, and was the catalyst for the creation of a multitude of practice centers. His teachings and multitude of books helped spread the influence of Zen in Europe and America, particularly of the Soto sect. He founded the AZI in 1970 and La Gendronnière in 1979. He died in 1982, after having solidly established Zen practice in the West.


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Dogo Onsen Matsuyama Kitty

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Dogo Onsen Matsuyama

Princess Daruma From the Hot Spring
and Kitty Chan


ひめだるまキティ


Photo from my friend Ishino.

道後温泉

姫だるまキティ




Princess Daruma Kitty



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Kitty Daruma Photos キティ だるま



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Puzzle with Kitty Daruma



Atari Kitty Daruma


Princess Daruma、Hime Daruma 姫達磨 姫だるま


. Matsuyama, Dogo Onsen and Shiki



. Manekineko 招き猫 the beckoning cat   





. Kitty Chan キティちゃん MORE TOYS .

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Kitty Bento lunchbox キティ だるま 弁当

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Exhibition, Japan Society, New York

Bye Bye Kitty!!!
Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art
Friday, March 18 — Sunday, June 12, 2001

This show features sixteen emerging and mid-career artists whose paintings, objects, photographs, videos, and installations meld traditional styles with challenging visions of Japan’s troubled present and uncertain future.

The sixteen featured artists are:
Makoto Aida会田誠; Manabu Ikeda池田学; Tomoko Kashiki樫木知子; Rinko Kawauchi川内倫子; Haruka Kojin荒神明香; Kumi Machida町田久美; Yoshitomo Nara奈良美智; Kohei Nawa名和晃平; Motohiko Odani小谷元彦; Hiraki Sawaさわひらき; Chiharu Shiota塩田千春; Tomoko Shioyasu塩保朋子; Hisashi Tenmyouya天明屋尚; Yamaguchi Akira山口晃; Miwa Yanagiやなぎみわ; Tomoko Yoneda米田知子.
source : www.japansociety.org

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Kitty Chan
in the driver's seat -
are you surprized ?




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Doraemon Manga

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Manga and Japan

Wilhelm Busch, see below
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Doraemon ドラえもん Daruma


source : snn.getnews.jp/archives

Doraemon Takasaki Daruma ドラえもん「高崎だるま」]




Photo from my friend Ishino.


Doraemon (ドラえもん) is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio (the pen name of Hiroshi Fujimoto) which later became an anime series and Asian franchise. The series is about a robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a schoolboy, Nobita Nobi.

Doraemon is considered a cultural icon of Japan and on April 22, 2002, is voted one of the 22 Asian Heroes by Time Asia magazine. A majority of Doraemon episodes are comedies with moral lessons regarding honesty, perseverance, courage, and etc. Several noteworthy environmental issues are often visited, including homeless animals, endangered species, deforestation, and pollution.

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The series first appeared in December 1969, when it was published simultaneously in six different magazines. In total, 1,344 stories were created in the original series, which are published by Shogakukan under the Tentōmushi (てんとう虫, Tentōmushi) manga brand, extending to forty-five volumes. The volumes are collected in the Takaoka Central Library in Toyama, Japan, where Fujio was born.

Doraemon was awarded the first Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga in 1982, and the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award in 1997.
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. My Three Monkeys .


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More Daruma Doraemon Goods
from Gunma Prefecture


a notepad









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source : 門司ヶ関人形工房


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Small keyholder and toy Doraemon-Daruma

from : www.strapya-world.com

Otoshi, Daruma Otoshi  だるま落とし / だるまおとし


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. WASHOKU
Dorayaki (どら焼き, どらやき, 銅鑼焼き, ドラ焼き)
 
The favorite food of Doraemon !


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Manga Daruma マンガ ダルマ


Manga, Anime and Japanese Food
料理漫画

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Mascots on a mission to explain the mundane

Throughout Japan's legal system and elsewhere, cuddly characters are at hand to hammer home the government line
By COLIN P. A. JONES (Japan Times, August 2011)


Pipo-kun, the vaguely creepy mascot of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, a contraction of "pipuru" (people) and "police
Kasutamu-kun by customs authorities
Jinken Mamoru-kun and Jinken Ayumi-chan (names which mean "protect" and "advance" human rights)
Tasuppi from Okayama Bar Association : "Help Peach," derived from the Japanese for "help" and the English for "peach."
Kashikashika from Kyoto Bar Association
Hoterasu, Japan's government-sponsored legal aid system
Saiban-inko from Fukuoka prosecutors' office
Puruto-kun ... by nuclear authorities to market plutonium-fueled nuclear power.
Nato-chan ... to spread the word about the sodium (natrium) cooling process in fast-breeder reactors such as the Monju
Uran-chan from Fukushima Prefecture Nuclear Power Marketing Association
Tappy (combination of "tax" and "happy") by Osaka Prefecture
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神さまの言うとおり弐 1巻



「生きる。」それだけがルール。ありきたりの日常が、「だるま」の出現で儚くも崩れ去る。それでも生きろ。生きてみせろ。死にたくなったことのある全ての人に贈る、「生」の物語!



Taking about being alive!
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Osamu Tezuka 手塚治 Tezuka Osamu 手塚治虫
November 3, 1928 – February 9, 1989


a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator, producer, activist and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Black Jack. He is often credited as the "Godfather of Anime", and is often considered the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney, who served as a major inspiration during his formative years.
His prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as "the father of manga", "the god of comics" and "kamisama of manga". His grave is located in Tokyo's Souzen-ji Temple Cemetery.
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Dark Side of the Manga: Tezuka Osamu's Dark Period
Tezuka Osamu spent the first two decades of his career entertaining Japanese children with his manga like Tetsuwan Atomu, but the rigors of being Japan's most visible creative public icon sent him down a dark path that would transform both his career and his legacy.

As global economies lurch from the popping of financial bubble after bubble, industrialized nations with identities forged in the aftermath of World War II are looking back on past histories, both near and far, with longing—a comingling of the urge to retreat into a cultural memory of triumph while searching for the elusive path back to greatness. Japan is no exception.
The success of novels like Murakami Ryū’s Popular Hits of the Shōwa Era (2011; see WLT, Sept. 2011, 63) and Urasawa Naoki’s manga 20th Century Boys (1999–2006) is a telling sign that many Japanese people are reacting to current economic and social instabilities by dissecting the remains of their country’s dynamic recent past for answers to modern problems.

University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
source : wlt.ou.edu/03_201


Garo Manga, 1964-1973
. GARO MAGAZINE EXHIBIT IN NEW YORK! .


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Wilhelm Busch

Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch
(* 15. April 1832 in Wiedensahl; † 9. Januar 1908 in Mechtshausen)
war einer der einflussreichsten humoristischen Dichter und Zeichner Deutschlands. Seine erste Bildergeschichte erschien 1859.



Schon in den 1870er Jahren zählte er zu den bekannten Persönlichkeiten Deutschlands. Zu seinem Todeszeitpunkt galt er als ein „Klassiker des deutschen Humors“, der mit seinen satirischen Bildergeschichten eine große Volkstümlichkeit erreichte. Er gilt heute als einer der Pioniere des Comics. Zu seinen bekanntesten Werken zählen die Bildergeschichten Max und Moritz, Die fromme Helene, Plisch und Plum, Hans Huckebein, der Unglücksrabe und die Knopp-Trilogie.
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Museum Wilhelm Busch –
Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst

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Bildrollen und Manga –
Japanische Bilderzählungen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart

Bildrollen und Manga ist die erste Ausstellung in Deutschland, die den Blick – ausgehend von den Bilderzählungen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts – auf die Entwicklung der politischen Karikatur im „Land der aufgehenden Sonne“ lenkt. Einige japanische Leihgaben, wie Ausgaben des Satiremagazins Manga aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, sind bisher noch nie im Ausland gezeigt worden. Ebenfalls eine besondere Rarität sind die 30 Originalzeichnungen des Comics Barfuß durch Hiroshima von Keiji Nakazawa (1939–2012), die einzig in Hannover und dann für lange Zeit nicht mehr außerhalb Japans zu sehen sein werden.

Dieser stark autobiografisch beeinflusste, gesellschaftskritische Comic gilt als Meilenstein des Manga, denn er thematisierte Anfang der 1970er Jahre die Atombombenabwürfe im Zweiten Weltkrieg – bis dahin ein Tabuthema in Japan. Zudem wurde Nakazawas Geschichte 1982 in der Bundesrepublik als erster Manga überhaupt veröffentlicht und lenkte damit den Blick deutscher Leser auf die japanische Comic-Kultur.



Steht das älteste Objekt der Ausstellung, eine kostbare Bildrolle aus der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts, noch für die Frühform der grafischen Erzählung, sind die Ukiyo-e-Farbholzschnitte von Hokusai Katsushika (1760–1849) oder Hiroshige Utagawa (1797–1858) bereits als publikumsorientierte Massenmedien zu begreifen. Hokusai war es auch, der den Begriff „Manga“ („ungezügeltes Bild“) in die japanische Kunst einführte. Hiermit bezeichnete er skizzenhafte, teils satirische Studien des Alltagslebens, von denen eine umfangreiche Auswahl in der Ausstellung präsentiert wird. Die Satirezeitschrift The Japan Punch (1862–1887) und japanische Karikaturen zu den bis heute politisch aktuellen Kriegen gegen China (1894/95) und Russland (1904/05) machen hingegen die Verschmelzung der fernöstlichen mit der europäischen Bildsprache zu Beginn der Moderne deutlich.
source : www.karikatur-museum.de

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Composing a haiku is sort of in the Japanese blood, since the rhythm of 5-7-5 is learned at an early age and fits the Japanese language so well. Even without thinking much many Japanese are often muttering something to themselves, which has the rhythm of haiku.

Anyway, for the Germans, it is the ryhming rhythm of Wilhlem Busch, a great painter and poet, maybe the "Mother (father) of all comic strips".


A piece from the famous Max and Moritz and Widow Bolte

Widow Bolte, bless her soul,
Goes downstairs and takes a bowl,
And she scoops a portion out
Of her cherished sauerkraut
Which she deems to taste sublime
Heated up the second time.



In the meantime, on the sly,
Something's going on up high.
Max has shown some foresight here,
For he brought his fishing gear.


source : rivertext.com


MORE of my samples :
source : happyhaiku/message

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hage daruma はげだるま bald Daruma


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hage daruma ハゲダルマ


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Super Mario スーパーマリオ / Sūpā Mario
is a series of platform video games created by Nintendo featuring their mascot, Mario. Alternatively called the Super Mario Bros. (スーパーマリオブラザーズ Sūpā Mario Burazāzu) series or simply the Mario (マリオ) series, it is the central series of the greater Mario franchise. At least one Super Mario game has been released for every major Nintendo video game console and handheld.
Mario is usually joined by his brother, Luigi
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For the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Bros.
and the 400th anniversary of the Rinpa School of Japanese Painting, artist Tara Yamamoto created an astonishing piece of art that threw a traditional twist on the two well known nintendo characters, Mario and Luigi.
In this painting, Mario and Luigi are depicted as the Japanese Deities Raijin and Fujin.
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