AME, DAGASHI Sweets

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Daruma-Ame だるま飴　Sweets on a Stick

This kind of sweet belongs to the type of Dagashi, cheap sweets, which originated in the Northern areas of Japan. During the winter season, the womenfolk would take rounds to prepare some homemade sweets for the neighbours. White sugar was not availabel during the Edo period, and the sweet taste was produced from rice decoctions (mizuame 水飴), red been paste and others. Nowadays, also rice cakes and other snacks in little bags are sold as dagashi, a cheap snack for kids.




Daruma ko ame 達磨子飴 Daruma lollipop
仙台のだるま飴 Daruma ame - Daruma sweets from Sendai

陸奥国分寺 Mutsu Kokubun-Ji 　薬師堂 Yakushi-Do Hall



A kind of candy in red color and the form of Daruma san.
On the seventh day of the first month and the third day of the third month of the old lunar year during the festival of Yakushi お薬師さん this sweet was sold. People who eat it will be healthy all year long.
After buying it you have to roll it up the stairs to the Daruma statue in the Yakushi Hall 薬師堂 and then offer it to the 神棚 Shelf of the Gods in your own home with the wish for the child or children to grow up healthy and well.
This custom was very popular until about 1910.

. Legends about Yakushi Nyorai from Miyagi .

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会津若松市本家長門屋さんの｢だるま飴｣
Aizu Wakamatsu, Nagatoya

Mixed sweets from Nagatoya

During the Edo period, rich people like the local lords and merchants could afford white sugar, but the poor people had to make do with other forms of sweeteners. These cheap sweets are very nutritious and healthy and are loved by young and old. Don's they look gorgeous?

江戸時代、大名・武士・豪商の食べる白砂糖を使った上菓子に対し、庶民の食べていたのは安い黒砂糖を使った駄菓子でした。上菓子を売る店では駄菓子を置かず、庶民・子供相手の菓子屋がそれを置いていたので、駄菓子屋と呼ばれました。体に優しく、栄養価の高いおやつとして、長い間人々に親しまれ続けています。
http://www.nagatoya.net/dagashi/dagashi.html

The black eyes of this representative of Northern Sweets, our Daruma sweet, are made of local black beans, grown with effort by local farmers.

駄菓子の代表作の一つ「だるま飴」、たいへん愛きょうのある表情をしていますが、これが実は七転八起の不屈の精神をもっているのです。この目玉となる部分に使用しているのが煎り黒豆なのです。手しおに掛けたこの黒豆たちが「だるま飴」として生きているのです。
sendaimeiten.com



A bag of sweets (dagashi 駄菓子） with one Daruma-Ame

ぶどうにぎり、あんこ玉、梅干、くろぱん、ごぼう切、月の輪、若草、だるま飴、みそぱん




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.. .. .. .. .. Dagashi 駄菓子　
Traditional Cheap Sweets



These assorted traditional confectioneries are widely known as Sendai Dagashi.
Originally, Dagashi (meaning cheap sweets) were produced almost "spontaneously" in the everyday life of common peple.Their old unrefined shapes as well as the rural flavor still attracts the people of today.

Original Sendai traditional hand-made confections are made with inexpensive ingredients such as beans and rice crumbs. Over 100 rare and nostalgic sweets are displayed here, including "Nankinto," a sweet that a European was carrying when he drifted ashore at Shiogama, during the Genroku period, and "Kumanejiri," a sweet made of powder ground by a very strong boy named Kumadoji using a mortar of heavy stone.
http://www.kankou-miyagi.net/cgi-bin/ss_detail.cgi?ID=2280011&country=eng&ef=lst

Dagashi:
junk sweets that were, and have been, typically sold at old fashioned mom-and-pop sweet shops
Although the word itself implies something negative ("da" is "poor" or "cheap", and "gashi (kashi)" "confection"), you can't sniff at Dagashi. Actually, they are snacks of extremely low price and high quality (perhaps). They taste super. And more than anything else, they have given great childhood memories to people in Japan (maybe).
http://www.hatano-es.com/kiyo/journal/archives/000293.html

Over 100 rare and nostalgic sweets are displayed here, including "Nankinto," a sweet that a European was carrying when he drifted ashore at Shiogama, during the Genroku period, and "Kumanejiri," a sweet made of powder ground by a very strong boy named Kumadoji using a mortar of heavy stone.
http://www.kankou-miyagi.net/cgi-bin/ss_detail.cgi?ID=2280011&country=eng&ef=lst



History of Dagasihi, cheap sweets from the Northern Regions.
To withstand the long cold winter, mothers used to make them themselves too and enjoyed a sweet broth with the neighbours.

「北は寒いね」と話し、やはり戊辰戦争の、白虎隊の哀切極まる歴史の余韻を胸に満たして訪れたのが、会津駄菓子の老舗「本家　長門屋」さん。　
大正末期築の、黒格子窓のどっしりした木造2階建て。引き戸を開けると、途端にさまざまな色彩や形が目に飛び込んできた。ピンク色の"だるま飴"、かわいい鳥の形の"とり飴"、青大豆のきな粉を固めてねじった"黄粉ねじり"、赤ちゃんの握りこぶしのような"握りおこし"、白い粉の下から薄紅色が見えるまあるい"梅干"……。40種近くが所狭しと並ぶ。形のおもしろさ、色の優しさ。どんな味がするのだろう？　さっきまでのしんみりした気持ちが吹き飛んで、これもあれもと無心に欲しくなる。人の気持ちを引き立て、楽しい心持ちにさせてくれるのが駄菓子なのかと実感した。早速一口。原料はもち米、大豆、胡麻や黒糖などで、添加物は一切入っていないとか。飴もあんこ玉も、原料の持ち味そのものの、舌を優しく包む素朴な味わいだ。
source : dan president

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While we are at the sweet department, let us take a look at
Wagashi, the Japanese Sweets, mostly used for the Tea Ceremony to create a seasonal feeling. Many come with their own Saijiki, Seasonal Records. 和菓子歳時記

Look at these links for such a Sweet Record Saijiki.
From the numbers 1 to 12 in the middle you can guess the Month they are refering to.
This is a Rice Cake representing Flower Petals 花びらもち, in the colors of Daruma.
　Hanabira Mochi Photos !

http://www.kouro-an.jp/saiji.html
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/kyotoksd/seasons/0-saijiki.htm

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Click on any of the buttons on the left to see trays of delicious sweets.
師走　（平成１６年１２月） The 12 means December. 16 is the year Heisei 16, 2004.
http://www.kaho-fukuoka.co.jp/saijiki.html


Some Western style cakes during the seasons
http://www.zenkaren.net/yearevent/saijiki.html

A book about the Cakes of the Season
http://tankosha.topica.ne.jp/special/bookfair/2003_08/book1.html

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Other Japanese Sweets with Daruma

Here a little princess Daruma takes the form of a sweet. Fukutoku, Futtoku
●「福徳」「ふっとく」とも「ふっとこ」ともいわれる正月の縁起菓子。巾着型のもち粉で出来た最中のような皮を割ると、中から土人形や姫だるまが顔を出す。何が入っているかは、割ってからのお楽しみ。今は諸江屋のみで販売。
http://www.kanazawa-kankoukyoukai.gr.jp/3mikaku/kashi_top.htm


Fukubuku Daruma、 Lucky Daruma 福々だるま

from yoshinoya



Dorayaki, Cakes with beanpaste filling
They are a speciality of the temple Jindai-Ji and are sold there too.
深大寺の縁起だるまのお菓子です。もちろん、深大寺にも売ってます！！

. Dorayaki (どら焼き - 銅鑼焼き) .


They are a speciality of the temple Jindai-Ji and are sold there too.
深大寺の縁起だるまのお菓子です。もちろん、深大寺にも売ってます！！
Read about Jindai-Ji
★ Jindai-ji - A Daruma Market and Sanskrit　　　　　　
深大寺の達磨市と梵字


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Cough drops with the Daruma face,
from temple Kawasaki Daishi



After reading this story, a good friend just send me a packet of these sweets. Each one has a slightly different face. They are prepared in a long rod and then cut to bite-size. The cutting process is very important and done in a rythmical way that reverberates through the whole street leading toward the temple.
To cut, as a symbolic act, is supposed to cut away evil influence and thus these sweets are especially "lucky".




This is the original, how they should look. They are a favorite souvenir from a trip to the Temple.

何よりダルマの顔にするには大勢の熟練の手が必要。顎、口、ほっぺなどパーツごとに分担して作り、順番に重ねていくのですが、固さや出来あがるタイミングが異なるため、息のあったベテランでないと難しいのだとか。よそでは売っていないこの店だけのオリジナルなので、参拝のおみやげにはぴったりです。
source : 川崎大師　飴


How are these sweets made, you ask? Well, here is the process (as far as I know).
Stripes of colored candy mass are put together to form a figure, in our case big eyes, a mustache and so on. The mass is then stretched in the form of a stick (nowadays in a machine) with a diameter of a round mouthful size at a great length of more than one meter. This long stick is then cut by the "choppers", cutting once on the sweet mass and three or for times on the board to get a nice rythm, as a tourist attraction of course.



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Two more from my collection

Daruma Cockies, ダルマサブレ―、だるまサブレー
is another speciality sold at the Kawasaki Temple.


Daruma Sable from Kawasaki


ダルマぬれせんべい: 七転び八起き人生
Daruma　Senbei Rice Crackers

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ameuri, ame uri 飴売り vendor of candy in Edo

There was a proverb in Edo,
naki ko ni ame 泣く子に飴 a child that cries gets sweets

.ame-uri, ameuri, ame uri 飴売り
vendor of candy, candy sellers in Edo .
and
mizuame (水飴) is a sweetener from Japan


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Sweets from Japan : Wagashi, Chagashi and Haiku ... SAIJIKI

WASHOKU ... Japanese Food SAIJIKI

WASHOKU ... Sweets from the Kanto region


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Manholes with Daruma

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Manholes with Daruma だるま模様のマンホール


Daimon Town 大門町
子供達の健やかな成長を願って行う「越中だいもん凧まつり」は県内外の多くの愛好家や外国人で賑わい、24畳の大凧をはじめ、連凧や魚の形をした変わり凧など、大小7000余りの凧が庄川の大空を鮮やかに彩ります。そこで揚げられる「だるま凧」をデザインしたマンホールフタです。町内の公共下水道、特定環境保全公共下水道区域で使用されています。

This link features the most beautiful manholes of Japan, some almost look like Mandala.
The Darum Kite above is a Daimon Tako, Kite from Daimon Town. 越中だいもん凧

下水道の施設は、処理場やポンプ場以外は、地下に埋められているため、普段目にすることはあまりありません。そんな中で、マンホールのフタだけは、皆さんが日常よく目にするものです。
http://www.pref.toyama.jp/cms_cat/305020/kj00000378.html


Let us look at some Mandala Manholes from Japan, from the LINK above.



From Toyama Town
This one is a rendering ot the Thistle, azami.
富山市の草花「あざみ」をデザインしたマンホールフタです。市内中心部の浜黒崎処理区で使われています。「あざみ」は、昭和４８年３月５日に、市の木「けやき」、市の花木「つばき」とともに選ばれました。「あざみ」は赤紫色の花と深緑のとげのある葉が特徴のどこででも見られる草花ですが、根は薬用になり、「富山のくすり」ともつながることから選ばれたそうです。




From Uozu Town
Design of a Lily.
魚津市の花「カノコユリ」のデザインマンホールフタです。「カノコユリ」は日本原産のユリ科の球根植物です。花に鹿の子絞り状の突起があります。魚津市はカノコユリの生産日本一で、「花の里」として有名な長引野地区では、カノコユリ球根の栽培が盛んに行われています。通常入れているカラーマンホールフタは、左のとおりとなっております。ただ、レアものとして、背景の色が、黒・黄色・白の三色があります。市内一円に、2～3枚づつ入っております。




From Fuchuu Town
The Narcissus.
婦中町の花「スイセン」をデザイン化したもの。





From Inokuchi Town
The flower is Tsubaki, the Camellia.
井口村の花木「ツバキ」をデザインしたマンホールのふたです。「ツバキ」は、昭和５３年に村の花木として村の草花「福寿草」、村の樹木「ブナ」とともに選ばれました。「ツバキ」は、身近な庭木で、和字「椿」があるように春の代表的な花木です。毎年３月下旬には、「いのくち椿まつり」が開催されます。

Now please go to this link and look at many more of the most beautiful manholes from Japan. It takes a while to upload.
................................Then come back here.
http://www.pref.toyama.jp/cms_cat/305020/kj00000378.html

The above samples are all
Copyright (c) Toyama Prefecture.
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After looking at all these beautifullly designed items, J. san asked:
Is this an example of mingei? これも民芸品ですか？
to make even the most everyday, humble, and utilitarian objects beautiful? (I am really asking the question, because the usual English translation "folk art" does not imply sophisticated decoration of manhole covers.)


Manholes are Art in Asphalt.

Here are some more links with beautiful manholes from Japan.
マンホール図鑑


Manholes from Yamagata Prefecture
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~zw2y-mtn/manhole/collection/index.htm
And more from the world of this photographer:
ウィーン Vienna
ブダペスト Budapest
チュニス Tunis
台北 Taipei

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Other countries have beautiful manholes too.
Here is a link from a worldwide collection of Dan Heller.
http://www.danheller.com/manholes.html

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source :　visitjapannow - facebook

CLICK on the arrows for many more manholes!

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Mount Fuji 富士山, Fuji-san, or Fujiyama .

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Mandala for Life .. A Haiku and Picture Selection

Mandala Therapy

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. Arai Town with handheld fireworks
Toyohashi : 遠州新居手筒花火 Enshu Arai tezutsu hanabi


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. Dogwood Manhole .

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Tottori, Mizokuchi　鳥取　溝口町

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マンホールに人一人消ゆ冬の朝
manhooru ni hito hitori kiyu fuyu no asa

into a manhole
one person disappears
winter morning
Tr. Fay Aoyagi

Yamashita Tsubasa 山下つばさ
http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.jp/


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Darumabune, a Boat

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Darumabune, Darumasen, a Boat Type だるま舟
also called Tent Boat テント舟



A small steam boat type with a wide body for transportation of goods, wood, stones and others, mostly along rivers and the coast of the Seto Inland Sea. Also used to carry the drums at a river festival, see below.

Here is one more purpose of the Daruma Boat:
だるま船といっても、いまの若い人にはわからないと思うが、当時、土地や家を持てず河に船を浮かべて生活している人は珍しくなかった。水上生活者である。その船をだるま船という。
Even young Japanese might not understand the word "Darumabune". It was a sort of houseboat for people who did not own land and lived on the river.
www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~u-ginga/page016.html





本名しりません！別名（テント船）（だるま船）しかし、先日テレビでも懐かしの映像で広島の木造テント船喫水０、を紹介して捨て込み作業の映像がありましたが、すごいね！オモリの石を振って船体が転覆する手前でオモリの石をレッコするのですが、そのタイミングがなんとも説明しにくいですね！タイミングを間違えて早くオモリをレッコしても石は落ちていくのですが全部の石が落ちる前に復元力で戻り片舷に石が残ってしまいます。この残った石が怖いんですよ！なぜかと言うとその石がオモリになって反対に転倒しだすんです！これで、転覆した船もあるんですよ！おまけに転覆を逃れてもデレックやクレーンのワイヤーが飛んできます。怖いです。他にも体験談ある人は教えてください！
http://www.geocities.jp/btfpb672/sikokukenki.nensi.html

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だるま船の船御幸（昭和10年）
http://www.taikodai.jp/~zen/taiko/tkindex/tkmukasi.htm


More pictures of this type of festival

http://www.taikodai.jp/~zen/taiko/16maturi/18fune/fune.htm
http://www.taikodai.jp/~zen/taiko/15maturi/fune/fune-6.htm



太鼓台の起こりがいつであるかはっきり答えられる資料は、現在のところ確認されていません。地域の伝承によると、祭礼の時、神輿に供奉する山車の一種で信仰を対象にした神輿渡御の際、その列に参加して厳かに供奉し、豊年の秋を感謝して氏神に奉納していたもので、その起源は平安時代、あるいは鎌倉時代まで遡るといわれています。　
太鼓台が記録の上で出てくるのは、江戸時代後期、文政年間（1818～1830）のことで、その頃は「神輿太鼓」と書かれることが多かったのですが、時代を経るにつれて「太鼓台」あるいは「太鼓」とされることが多くなってきました。　太鼓台の全国的な分布を見ると、瀬戸内海沿岸の港町、漁師町、あるいは大きな川の輸送拠点に多く見られます。これは、瀬戸内海の海上交通が古くから盛んで、物資の流通、文化の交流が活発に行われたことによるものと考えられています。
http://www.my-concierge.org/shikoku/niihama/contents/matsuri/body01.htm


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Kamishibai picture performance from Showa 20
だるま船 Darumabune 船まるだ
小出正吾・西正世志
About 25 x 38 cm
Photos from my friend Ishino


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.. .. .. .. .. セーヌ川のだるま船 (Title of a book)
The Daruma Boat on the River Seine



And Life is like a Daruma Boat
「人生はだるま船のように」
Written by Priest Kobayashi小林敬三神父
Reference


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.. .. .. .. .. The Haiku Connection

木枯らしや大橋くぐるだるま船　　　　佐藤幸一
kogarashi ya oohashi kuguru Darumabune

cold withering wind
under the huge bridge
a Daruma boat

Sato Kooichi
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~kytomon/newfile6.htm


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WASHOKU
funaryoori 船料理 (ふなりょうり)
food served on board a ship or boat



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ME - Blue Eyes of Daruma

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ME 目　Blue Eyes of Daruma san
.. .. .. 青い目のだるまさん
aoi me no Daruma
for komainu, see below



A friend asked about paintings of a Daruma with blue eyes. Since most painings of Daruma san are in the Zen-painting tradition (zen-ga 禅画), they are in black and white ink. But Daruma, as an Indian Monk, might have blue eyes.


.. .. .. .. Let us see what we find in the Internet.

Then, about fourteen hundred years ago Bodhidharma (Bodhidharma in Sanskrit, Pu-Ti-Ta-Mo, Buti-Damoin or Ta-mo in Chinese, Bodai Daruma in Japanese) who was a Buddhist master and an accomplished Kshatriya warrior, left western India, penetrating mountain ranges including the Himalayas and crossing unbridged rivers through complete wilderness, to travel to China and present lectures on Buddhism.


Ferociously ugly, with wide, piercing blue eyes; and bearded with wild curly hair, who was known as he arrived in China as a "barbarian", is now known as the founder of Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism and of the Shaolin arts. Some historical notes have him arriving in Canton, China at 470 AD, leaving there and arriving next in Ching-Ling (which is now Nanking).
Since even present roads between India and China would not be described as good, one can only imagine the greatness of Bodhidharma's spirit and physical strength as he made this several thousand mile trip alone. This journey was the death bed wish of his master Prajnatara who wished to spread the "sudden" philosophy of Chan Buddhism outside of India proper and particularly to the land of Song Dynasty China.
quote from ohio shaolin


The blue-eyed Founder of Shaolin & Chan Buddhism
http://www.ohioshaolindo.com/SHAOLINDO%20Images/tamo.htm


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Actually, Kung Fu was introduced to China
by a man whose BLUE EYES supposedly burned a hole through a wall, according to the legend. His name was Bodhidharma, and he is mentioned as "the blue-eyed devil" in the quote below.
Another thing we always see in the Orient is the Buddha, whose statues are all very Oriental-looking. Actually, Buddha was an Aryan who lived and died in India.
As one Buddhist puts it,
"We're all prepared to visualize the Buddha's blue eyes. He was an Aryan, of European descent, a nobleman in a societal caste system that did not ‘officially' intermarry with native populations. The rigidity of the system can be seen even in further generations. Nearly a thousand years later, Bodhidharma, another Aryan descendant, was called The Blue Eyed Demon by the Chinese.'"
http://www.whitakeronline.org/021404.htm

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Buddhas Eyes are like a Blue Lotus



The countenance of the Buddha is like the clear full moon,
Or again, like a thousand suns releasing their splendour.
His eyes are pure, as large and as broad as a blue lotus.
His teeth are white, even and close, as snowy as white jade.

- from the Suvarnaprabhasa (Suvarnabhasottama) Sutra

Interesting Article about the perception of the Color BLUE.
http://www.hsuyun.org/Dharma/zbohy/Literature/essays/czs/bluelotus.html

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Bodhidharma is revered as the founder of kung fu. He introduced kung fu exercises to the monks of the Shaolin temple after gaining entry around 497AD. Legend states that he cut off his eyelids to stay awake in meditation and had piercing blue eyes.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/xuy/a2z/zen.htm

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Bodhidharma
was a disciple of the priest Prajinatara, who later became the 28th descendent of Skaka (the founder of Buddhism). Bodhidharma was a colorful character;
Chinese writers refer to him as the "blue-eyed barbarian. "

He is often depicted as a balding man with a beard, potbelly, and blue eyes. He was most probably born in Kanchipuran (near Madras), India. He was probably the son of a lesser member of the warrior caste, but there are some indications he may have been of the mixed priest-warrior caste "Brahaman-Kshyatriya"; the clue being his Caucasoid features. Although heir to a throne, Bodhidharma chose the life of a religious devotee.
http://www.uta.edu/student_orgs/umaa/htmlDocs/history.html

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People of Old Along the Silk Road
On this page, you will see wall paintings from the tomb of Princess Yongtai at the site of the Qian Ling tombs, Shaolin Monastery, and from the grottoes at Dunhunag, Kizil and Bezeklik.

Other figures, shown kneeling before the Buddhas offering gifts, were of particular interest to von Le Coq since they depicted individuals in costumes of different nationalities. They included Indian princes, Brahmins, Persians -- and one puzzling character with red hair, blue eyes and distinctly European features."
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Kites of Daimon Town 越中だいもん凧まつり
One of these kites features a Daruma with blue eyes.



Poster for the Kite Competition Heisei 20


This Kite pattern is also on a large tile design in the town.




And my Daruma Story about Kites:
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Tea Legends and the Blue-eyed Daruma
Daruma, the blue-eyed prince from India, did long sessions of zazen in China and cut off his eyelids, because he wanted to prevent going to sleep. From the cast-off eyebrows the tee tree emerged, with his envigorating dring helping the meditating Daruma.

お茶について最も広く知られている伝説に登場するのは、紀元前2800年ごろに中国を治めていたとされる 神農（神の農夫）である。彼は哲学者、本草家としても知られていた。山野をかけ巡り、日に72種もの野草 や木の葉などを口にして効能を調べ、そのたびごとに茶の葉を用いて毒を消していたのがその始まりとされて いる。　これとは別にもうひとつの伝説がある。お茶の始まりを仏教伝播（でんぱ）に結びつけるもので、その時期 は、実際の発祥よりも後のこととされている。インドの青い目の王子、菩提達磨（ぼだいだるま）が主人公で ある。彼は何年もの間、一睡もせずに修行を続けたと言われている。修行の座禅中、睡魔に襲われ不覚にも 眠ってしまった。目覚めた彼は、無念の思いから自らに愛想をつかし、自分のまぶたを切り取り捨てた。その 後5年以上も眠らず座禅を続けるが、再び眠ってしまった。彼は目を覚ますと、近くにあった木の葉をかんで みた。するとたちまち眠気が覚めた。これこそお茶に含まれる成分の代表的なカフェインの効果である。
source ichigashira.com

だるまは こうしこくのおうじ kooshi koku no ooji / 香至国 の第三王子 Prince from Koshi

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The Daruma above is from my collection. He is made from clay and about 19 cm high.



Kokeshi set on a piece of wood with blue eyes.




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Me-ire - Painting Eyes for Daruma　達磨の目入れ
Daruma and his EYES



The Eye-Opening Ceremony of a Buddha Statue
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/138

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Comments from my readers:
The ancient 12-13th c. Korean history "Samguk Yusa" describes Tamo (Daruma) as a blue-eyed barbarian. "The Blue Cliff Records" of Japan label him as"that old blue-eyed barbarian".
Coupling this info. with the Silk RoadTrade, considering that Chinese interacted with Nordics through that very route, literary references to Nordics (Aryans), that artistic works refer to non-European Whites, and that "blue-eyed barbarian" was apparently used as a general term for White strangers (from Xinjiang, Persia, India, C. Asia,etc. - where else would they come from?), makes the chances of Daruma being a White Man (he was from the Warrior Caste) with blue eyes quite apossibility; just like the Buddha.
Ali
- darumasan forum yahoo


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aoi me no komainu　青目の狛犬　
Koma-Inu with blue eyes
They have stone eyes of blue color.

. komainu, koma inu　狛犬 "lion dog" .
Lit. 'Korean dog'. - Introduction



- photo by Yasue M. san -
from 白鳥神社　- 宮城県柴田郡村田町



- photo by Takashi G. san -
from 人麻呂神社 栃木県

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Scrolls with Daruma 掛け軸 kakejiku

Many Daruma Scrolls introduced here are from extensive internet search of Ebay, Trocadero and other soucres.
http://www.trocadero.com/


Since they usually disappear soon from the web, I have prepared a safecopy in my photoalbum.
... gabigreve /album/

I wish to express my thanks to the many dealers who show their Daruma scrolls online. If this little collection would help to promote the sales, I will be happy ! And if you want to share them here directly too, please go ahead.



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source :　arttattler.com

Suiô Genro (Japanese, 1716-1789)
遂翁元廬 (1717 - 1790) Suio Genro


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from Tomioka collection 富岡重憲コレクション
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Zen Art Gallery Shambhala


In Zen art, the master does not paint Daruma as an historical figure (or even a saint) but as a symbol of penetrating insight, self-reliance, ceaseless diligence, and the rejection of all externals. In order to bring the image of Daruma to life with brush and ink, the artist must become Daruma. Thus, a Daruma painting is a spiritual self-portrait, based on the individual experience of each Zen master.

Look at this great Gallery of Daruma Scrolls.
... www.shambhala.com/zenart/

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Jcollector

Daruma Under Bo Tree, Taisho


Humorous painting on Japanese Zen scroll featuring Daruma sitting beneath a bo tree, Taisho Era, c. 1912-1926. Colorful depiction with ink and colors on silk. Daruma, also known as Boddhidharma, is the known as the first patriarch of Zen Buddhism and said to have founded Kung Fu in China. In this entertaining rendering, he is pictured meditating under the halo of a bo tree. This unusual combination of a serious pose taken aback by an amusingly rendered expression gives an eye-catching overall effect.
Dimensions: 79” high, 21.5” wide.
Nr. 58/59
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Gaun (1633 - 1701) - Crimson Daruma
This is a 17th Century painting of the enigmatic Daruma. Depicted with his robe clutched tightly to himself and his face is set in deep concentration. He appears to be summoning his will to control the tumultuous thoughts within. The calligraphic inscriptions are signed Myoitsu, and the top seal below his signature also reads Myoitsu. The seal below this reads Gaun. Gaun (Arima Ryodai) was a practitioner of calligraphy and tea ceremony in Kyoto. He died in 1701 at the age of 69. The larger seal at the top left reads ‘Zenkoku …….Hakurankai’. This translates to ‘the all Japan exhibition of painted treasures’. The painting has just been cleaned and re-mounted – the previous brocade was worn beyond repair. The gold used for the calligraphy, and the deep, crimson red pigments of his robe have faded. It is now in fine condition, and completely stable. The scroll measures 77 by 20 inches.
Nr. 60/61
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Murasakino Kita-ku Kyoto

The Kura was established in 1994 in the ancient capitol and cultural heart of Japan, Kyoto. It has a lot of other Daruma items too.
http://www.the-kura.com/

WILD VINTAGE Japanese DARUMA SCROLL, GOZAN
An erratic mid 20th century Daruma painting signed Gozan in the original signed wooden box; the almost frenzied aspect of the brushwork balanced with the morose look on the legendary figures face. Of course, the Daruma is the founder of Zen Buddhism, and is attributed by the Chinese as the originator of Shao-Lin Kung-Fu. We have been unable to find any information on Gozan; however the name (five mountains) is certainly that of a priest (as originally in Japan the five main sects of Buddhism were represented by five mountain temples). The watercolor and ink on paper image, taken from an unusual angle and reminiscent of the works of the artist Tessai, is set in a very clean border of dark brown cloth, extended in beige. There is some age staining present on the image, but due to the peculiar style of the painting, actually blends in to the background. The scroll measures 19-1/4 by 62 inches (48 x 155 cm).
Nr. 21/22
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ZENGA DARUMA SCROLLS, KIUN



A lovely Sanpuku set of three bright early 20th century sumi-e scrolls, Ichi-gyo Calligraphy scrolls framing an image of the Daruma, legendary founder of Zen Buddhism. The signature is a bit difficult to read, but the stamps read Kiun (upper) and Hosen (lower). Typical of characters used for a priestfs name. Each ink work is framed in fresh green brocade featuring bone rollers and measures 7-1/4 by 77-1/2 inches (18.5 x 197 cm).

Six Tips to Protect Your Hanging Scrolls

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Six Tips to Protect Your Hanging Scrolls
When it comes to hanging scrolls, conservators believe that preventive care is the best medicine.
Tip #2 Handle scrolls in the traditional manner
- source : www.asianart.org

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"Daruma riding leaves to cross the seas to Japan"
attributed to Hokusai or Oi (葛飾 応為, c. 1800–c. 1866), his daughter.

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fuuchin, fūchin 風鎮 Fuchin, hanging-scroll weight




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sumi-e 墨絵 painting with ink and brush

Ink and wash painting is an East Asian type of brush painting also known as ink wash painting. Only black ink — the same as used in East Asian calligraphy — is used, in various concentrations.
In Western art, works on paper in similar techniques are generally classified with drawings.
..... Ink wash painting developed in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
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SUMI-E SOCIETY OF AMERICA
East Asian Brush Painting
source : www.sumiesociety.org

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Sumitsubo Gassen　

Kobaien Nara, Tsubai-Cho 7 - 古梅園 - 古墨 古梅園
奈良県奈良市椿井町７
source : 古梅園

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suibokuga 水墨画　ink paintings



When you draw the traditional images, such as geisya, samurai or Buddha, it is key point how to draw the neck line. I build up the neck line of this dharma image inspired by Sesshu and Hakuin.

Kazu Shimura
Look at a video of this painting in process:
source : sumi-e.jp/museum/bodydharma.htm

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二荒山墨絵ぼかしに霾れり
Futaara san sumie bokashi ni tsuchi fureri

an ink painting
of Futarasan in all gradations -
it is raining sand

Matsuzaki Tetsunosuke

. Yellow sand 　黄砂 (こうさ) koosa .

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墨絵にもほのかなる紅風光る
sumi-e ni mo honoka naru momiji kaze hikaru

even in this ink painting
a tint of red autumn leaves -
shining wind

Fukushima Kazu 福島加津




曙の墨絵の雲や糸ざくら
akebono no sumi-e no kumo ya itozakura

in morning dawn
the clouds like ink paintings -
hanging cherry blossoms

Izumi Kyooka 泉鏡花 Izumi Kyoka
(1873 - 1939)




簀戸ごしに浮世のさまの墨絵めく
sudo goshi ni ukiyo no sama na sumi-e meku

Oosaka Getsuooshi 逢坂月央子 Osaka Getsuoshi




かかりたる墨絵達磨の忌日かな
kakaritaru sumi-e Daruma no kinichi kana

Tokumoto Eisui 徳本映水


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杉山の墨絵ぼかしに牡丹鍋
sugiyama no sumi-e bokashi ni botan nabe

the ink painting
of a cedar forest in all gradations -
wild boar stew

Kiuchi Shooshi 木内彰志 Kiuchi Shoshi
(1935 - 2006）



source :　www.grace-tsumugi.com

A Sumi-e hanging scroll decorated with pine trees and clouds,
by Shibata Zeshin.

柴田是真　墨絵杉山


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