Yakimono Pottery

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. Districts of Edo 江戸の町 .
Setomono, 瀬戸物 see below
. Legends about pottery .
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Yakimono 焼物　/ Setomono 瀬戸物 pottery, crockery

. Yakimono, pottery and Haiku .

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　達磨 Daruma in and on pottery

Japanese Pottery!
The oldest pottery in the world and in the long history of its development there are so many styles and areas involved, it is easy to loose track.
Talking about Japanese Pottery and Daruma san, I make the distinction between Daruma as a decorative figure or statue (okimono 置物), Daruma painted on a piece of pottery for use, for example a teacup, a soy sauce poorer or an oil dish. In this field we find Daruma almost everywhere! I will cover that in the separate stories.
And finally pottery items for use in the form of Daruma, for example incense burners, toothpick holders and the like. This also calls for different stories. Many pottery centers have some special type of Daruma objects, so I will cover the Pottery of Arita, Bizen, Kutani, Oribe etc. in extra stories.

There might be more in time.

. My ALBUM - Pottery .

. My ALBUM - Kutani 九谷焼　Pottery .

Yakimono - Culture Sketches



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Modern Japanese Ceramics:
Pathways of Innovation & Tradition
by Anneliese Crueger (Author), Wulf Crueger (Author), Saeko Ito (Author)



For more than 30 years, Dr. Anneliese and Dr. Wulf Crueger—guided by Saeko Itô—have devoted themselves to studying, understanding, and collecting Japanese ceramics. Today, they share the rich fruits of their knowledge with this lavishly illustrated volume based on their own collection. The equivalent of Roberts Museum Guide, devotees of beautiful ceramics can pick it up and use it to select and visit potters as they undertake an artistic tour of the country.
Organized geographically, it goes from kiln to kiln—which in Japan may refer to a lone site or an entire ceramics region that contains hundreds of workshops. Along the way, they outline the history, development, and unique stylistic characteristics of each area’s work, and the traditions that inspired it.
- source : www.amazon.com

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..... Akahadayaki 赤膚焼　Akahada pottery "red skin" Nara

..... Akazu-yaki 赤津焼 Akazu pottery (Akatsu) Aichi

..... Aritayaki, Arita-yaki 有田焼　Pottery from Arita

..... Awata-yaki / Awada-yaki 粟田焼 Awata ware Kyoto

..... Bizen Pottery 備前焼 Bizenyaki - Okayama

..... Hajiki ware 土師器 and 埴輪 Haniwa

..... Hasami-yaki 波佐見焼 Hasami creamics - Nagasaki

..... Igayaki, Iga-Yaki 伊賀焼 Iga pottery, Iga ware - Mie

..... Kameyama yaki 亀山焼 Kameyama Pottery
- Nagasaki yaki 長崎焼 Nagasaki Pottery

..... Karatsuyaki 唐津焼 Pottery from Karatsu

..... Kumamoto 熊本県 pottery . - Shodai yaki, Amakusa yaki, Koda yaki

..... Kumurayaki, Kumura Yaki 久村焼 Kumura Pottery - Shimane

Kuromutayaki, Kuromuta yaki 黒牟田焼 - Saga - Maruta Masami .

..... Kutaniyaki <> Pottery from Kutani　九谷焼　

..... Mikawachi yaki 三川内焼 Mikawachi pottery - Nagasaki

..... Mishimayaki 三島焼 Pottery from Mishima 　

..... Mumyoi-yaki 無名異焼　Mumyoi ceramics - Sado, Niigata

..... Nishikimatsu 錦松 Potter

........ Odayaki 小田陶器の白磁 white pottery from Oda
Oda pottery was founded in 1921, in the production area of Minoyaki, Mizunami-shi, Gifu Prefecture.
In the Mizunami area in the eastern part of Gifu Prefecture, together with close by Tajimi City and Toki City, the area flourished as the production centre of Minoyaki, it is also called "Japan's pottery capital" because of its wide variety of materials, designs and technologies and it has supported Japanese ceramics culture ever since.

..... Oribeyaki Pottery in the Oribe Tradition　織部焼　

..... Ontayaki 小鹿田焼 Ontayaki from Sarayama

........ Oyodayaki 大淀焼 Oyoda
-------- Matsubayashi Genei (松林玄衛) of Yoshino, Nara Prefecture.

..... Rakuzan-yaki 楽山焼 Ehime

..... Satsuma Ware　薩摩焼　

..... Seto 瀬戸 - Aichi

..... Shinoyaki 志野焼 Shino Pottery

..... Sodeshi 袖師窯　Sodeshi-gama Pottery - Shimane



..... Sumida Pottery 隅田焼 Vase with Daruma

..... Tobe-yaki 砥部焼 Tobe ware, pottery Ehime

..... Tokoname Pottery 常滑焼　

Yonezawa yaki, Okitama, Yonezawa city 米沢焼
..... Yonezawa yaki - youtube 　
..... Yonezawa-yaki Pottery Narushima-gama 　

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..... Gabi in Takamatsu - Daruma Hunting

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source :　facebook

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Kintsugi (金継ぎ) (Japanese: golden joinery) or
Kintsukuroi (金繕い) (Japanese: golden repair)
is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer resin dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy it speaks to breakage and repair becoming part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
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Vase from the Heikichi Kiln of Hirashimizu
Yamagata prefecture
The pattern is engraved in a kind of scrafitto by etching the image through the slip.

平清水焼の花瓶
「作者 平吉窯四代目 . 安倍宗太郎」






Photo from my friend Ishino
widest diameter 18cm / hight 25.5cm

This kind of pottery has a history of more than 200 years. Now there are six kilns that produce it.
平清水焼き Japanese Reference

Hirashimizu, to the south of Yamagata city is a renowned pottery producing area. It is said that at its peak there were some 20 producers in the area. This number has now dwindled to six which are enjoying the recent boom in ceramics. The peach Celadon style whereby the iron particles protrude through the celadon glaze giving the pottery a peach-skin effect is particularly well known. Pottery lessons and tours of the buildings where the potters sit at their wheels can be arranged by the Shichiemon, Bun'emon and Heikichi potters.
... www.yamagatakanko.com/

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. Daruma from Hirashimizu 平清水だるま

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Robert Yellin and his Japanese Pottery pages
http://www.e-yakimono.net/


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. Districts of Edo 江戸の町 .



Setomonochoo　瀬戸物町 Setomonocho, Setomono-Cho
Now part of Chuo-Ku, Nihonbashi, Muromachi
setomono mise　瀬戸物店, setomonoya　瀬戸物屋
pottery shop, crockery shop

All kinds of pottery were called "Setomono" in Edo, but in Western Japan they were called Karatsumono　唐津物　"Things (pottery) from Karatsu".

Seto 瀬戸 is a pottery town in Aichi.
Pottery made in Seto dates back to the 13th century. Katō Shirōzaemon is credited as the first to produce wares in the town
- - - More about Seto Pottery in the WIKIPEDIA !

In the Setomono district of Edo were many shops selling pottery and crockery.
One of the first to open shop was 水野兵九郎　Mizuno Heikuro.
The eastern part of the district bordered to a wide river-canal Nishi-Horidome 西堀留, where ships from Seto could land easily.
There were also many wholesalers of Sake, incense sticks (senkoo　線香 and dried food (kanbutsu　乾物) in the district.
During the Year-End season, a popular market, (toshi no ichi　年の市) was held in the Western part of the district.

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Horidomechoo 堀留町 Horidomecho District
Nihonbashi Area

Because of the wide waterway, many wholesalers (tonya　問屋) had their warehouses here, especially rice dealers.


Painting by Hasegawa Settan 1834-1836

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The Horidome district was located in the vicinity of modern Nihonbashi Horidome-chō 1-chōme and 2-chōme; it being positioned along an excavated bund that faced onto and altered the flow of the two Horidome rivers (east and west).
Water transportation was used extensively in the area during Edo times, with the town becoming well-known for its rice traders.
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. Funabori 船堀 Funabori district .

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Iseya 伊勢屋 Iseya Store
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Ninben　にんべん, Ihee Takatsu 高津伊兵衛　(1679 - ）

... In 1691, he moved to Edo's Kobunacho and became the apprentice of a grain trader named Tarokichi Aburaya.
in 1704, he opened a wholesale store in Kobunacho. In the following year, he changed his name to Ihee and the name of his shop to Iseya Ihee 伊勢屋伊兵衛. He then started a retail store in Setomonocho, Nihonbashi (present day Muromachi 2-chome) in 1720, which is now the location of the current Ninben head office.
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伊勢屋から鰹をよぶやいなや雨　
Iseya kara katsuo o yobu ya inaya ame

When the master of Iseya store
buys first fish of the season,
it will surely rain.

First fish of the season was extremely expensive, and if he bought it, surely heaven himself would be surprized and start a shower.

. daitsuuya juuhachi 大通屋十八 18 big spenders .
The big 18 were the most famous of this group, most of them were the money-lenders of Kura-Mae 蔵前.



source : ukiyo-e.org/image

Three Women at the Iseya in Nakazu
- by Katsukawa Shuncho

. 小舟町 Kobunacho, Kobuna Cho district EDO .

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. ABC List of Edo craftsmen　江戸の職人 .

tookooshi 陶工師 suetsukuri 陶工 Tokoshi, potter

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Kajibashi　鍛冶橋
..... The neighborhood we are entering now is home to a community of potters, and the shops on the main street have row after row of porcelain and pottery lined up on the shelves and tables. Each store offers a range of different types of plates, saucers, mugs, bowls and vases.

Pottery is a highly developed craft in Edo, though the best products still come from the far western provinces of Suo, Aki and Nagato. A wide range of different styles of pottery are available, from inexpensive dishes used by average townspeople to the works of master craftsmen, which can fetch extremely high prices from rich daimyo, merchants or members of the Emperor's court.

Everyone is intent on what they are doing, and take their work seriously -- even the youngsters and women who prepare the clay for use in making the pottery. Like many of Edo's crafts, there is a close connection between the business of making pottery and the expression of fine art. Apprentices may produce large amounts of simple pottery for daily use while they are learning their craft, but their goal is always to develop their skill to a fine level and to create true works of art.

The center of the potter's district is almost uncomfortably warm. You can feel the heat from the kilns as soon as you enter the square. The huge ovens used to bake the porcelain are set up in the center of the district, and they are tended carefully to ensure that the temperature is kept at just the right level. Around the square, individual craftsmen are shaping clay into different types of products. Every few minutes, someone will carry another large rack of molded pottery over to the kilns to be baked.
This neighborhood can be unbearably hot in the summer time, since potters have to work all year round. On the other hand, it isnt such a bad place to visit in the winter. Each of the crafts districts is entirely devoted to producing their specialty products, and each member of the community has a part to play. Most of the people are closely bound together by ties of kinship and community, and all work together to help the entire neighborhood become prosperous.

Craftsmen in Japan have to spend ten years working as an apprentice for a "master craftsman" before they can start to work on their own. While they are an apprentice, they will spend the entire day working with their master, watching every move that he makes, and attempting to imitate his skills. Although the crafts tend to hereditary professions, with people passing on their trade from father to son, it is not that uncommon for people to switch to a different craft while they are still very young. .....
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. Imado yaki 今戸焼　 Imado ware .
from Imado, Asakusa

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source : edokurashi.hatenablog.com/entry - 渡辺京二

porcelain dealer

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Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan
Andrew L. Maske

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俄雨瀬戸物売りは常の足
niwaka ame setomono uri wa tsune no ashi

sudden rainfall -
the vendor of pottery
walks as usual

Since his ware can break easily, he does not dare to speed up or hurry during a rainfall.


source :　www012.upp.so-net.ne.jp/shonokousaten

- - - - - MORE to explore - 瀬戸物屋 - TBA
瀬戸物屋頭痛地震で鉢合せ
瀬戸物屋小言隣は藤間流
両方が舂屋で困る瀬戸物屋
茶碗ばち網の中から出して売 . . .
- source : ameblo.jp/tachibana2007


. senryu, senryū 川柳　Senryu in Edo .

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. Legends about pottery .

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　WASHOKU : sara, hachi, kappu ...
various kinds of plates and bowls 　


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Bentoo Lunchbox

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Yukidaruma Bentoo Box
Lunchbox with a Snowman Daruma

The town of Niitsu in Niigata Prefecture prepares various lunchboxes served in colorful plastic Daruma boxes.





隠れた駅弁大駅である新津に1987(昭和62)年に登場した駅弁。プラスティック製の白い雪だるま型容器が本当にかわいらしく、駅弁大会で何十個と陳列されると壮観。中身は鶏めし弁当風で、頭の部分が鶏そぼろ御飯、胴体の部分は御飯の上に鶏もも肉・数の子・椎茸・山菜・カニ蒲鉾・錦糸卵などが載る。御飯はもちろん新潟米コシヒカリ。容器は白の他に黄・青・緑・赤があり、こちらは予約しないと入手できなかったが、遠隔地での駅弁大会で実演販売があれば見られることがある。

Even a BLACK snowman Daruma is available.




Some other snacks with nuts and crackers in a Daruma box
雪国あられと柿の種
「雪だるま弁当」の容器を使用、頭の部分に柿の種を、胴体の部分に雪国あられを詰めた袋を収めるもの。容器の色が普通の白でも団体予約用の赤・黄・緑・青でもない橙色である点が興味深い。





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He No He No　へのへの
Painting the Daruma Face with letters

A way children learn to write letters.

HE is for the eyebrows, NO for the eyes.
MO も is for the nose and the final
HE is for the mouth.



One more photo


HE NO HE NO, some fun with Farting



へのへのもへじ Wikipedia





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Shingen Bento Boxes

Wood with red laquer




Wood with black laquer



Detail of the above


Photos from my friend Ishino.

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TAKABEN, the famous lunch box with
Takasaki Daruma
has been reproduced lately.

高崎の「だるま弁当」





Here you can see the contents





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Daruma Relief at Takasaki Train Station



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三面ダルマ焼
sanmen Daruma yaki
Daruma with three faces, from Takasaki
a cookie

a smiling face to lure good luck
a face with two open eyes to open good fortune
a face to keep harmony with the sourroundings

The eyebrows in the form of a crane
the beard a symbol for long life.

一面・笑顔で福を招き
二面・両目開眼で運を開き
三面・周囲との調和を願う
眉は鶴、髪は長寿を表す。



©　Itibou-Kaku
群馬県高崎市石原町２３４０－１


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Bentobox from Nagoya Shinkansen Station
東海道新幹線 : 名古屋駅



And a Daruma Miso-Don
だるまのみそ丼


© PHOTOs :　kun.ciao.jp/kunkun


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「ダルマ」弁当, 達磨弁当


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ぷちサンプル 駅弁紀行　だるま

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Magewappa, magewappa Bento Boxes
まげわっぱ / 曲げわっぱ
magemono 曲物 cirulare box

Magewappa was first made by woodcutters in the Odate area, using straight grain Akita Cedar. The Lord of Odate Castle, Nishiie Satake, encouraged this use of the soldiers and has been passed on from generation to generation from the end of the Edo Era to the present. With the emergence of plastics, it became economically necessary for some craftsmen to change their business. Since then more people are becoming aware of real quality and craftsmanship.


Odate Magewappa 大館曲げわっぱ fits this description perfectly.

For more than four hundred years our ancestors have exploited mountains, planted Japanese cedars, and repeated the process of weeding, pruning, and thinning out the forests every year to protect the beauty and health of the environment for the next generation
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. chigibako 千木筥 / 千木箱 auspicious box .



from the shrine Shiba Daijinguu 芝大神宮
Tokyo

akinai mamori　商い守り　amulet to protect business
- source : www.shibadaijingu.com

. shoobai hanjoo 商売繁盛 good business amulets .

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Bentobako Ekiben Bentobox
Bentoobako - Lunchbox with Daruma
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Yukidaruma - Daruma as a Snowman 雪だるま―冬の散歩
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World Kigo Database: Lunchbox (bentoo) and Haiku

World Kigo Database: Snowman (yukidaruma) and Haiku


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WASHOKU ... Tableware and Tools

WASHOKU : Ekiben 駅弁 station lunchbox 　

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Izakaya Drinking Places

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Drinking Places, Izakaya 居酒屋　

Read the Original here:
crisscross.com/

Izakaya adapting to social changes

By Hideo Yoshida

TOKYO —
An "izakaya" (inexpensive Japanese-style pub) in the Monzennaka area, one subway stop away from Tokyo's Kayaba district where securities companies are concentrated, is always full of salaried people, both men and women, at night on weekdays.

Osamu Kouke, 73, the owner of the establishment, called Dharma, opened it 35 years ago. "This was an area of factories, and employees at Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co and students at then Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine (now Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology) were our main customers."

"It was noisy, with heated talk among the men about the company or college. But now, customers drink quietly as most of them are accompanied by women. They may not want to cut a poor figure in front of a woman," he said.

At night on a Saturday in early July, six men in their 30s and 40s gathered at the izakaya. They got to know each other through the Internet website "Izakaya Raisan (cultism)." Nobody knows the others' profession or career. What links them is their love of izakaya.

One of them, a company employee, 44, said, "I can drink enjoyably without bothering myself." "It is enjoyable as we have the same sense of values," said a 36-year-old editorial staffer at a specialized newspaper.

The "Izakaya Raisan" website was created by Shinro Hamada, 47, an employee at a shipbuilding company. It has had more than 3.5 million hits.

Hamada visits izakaya in Tokyo and neighboring Kanagawa Prefecture on his way home from the company or on holidays, and writes notices on the web page about the food, prices and impressions of the place. He has so far written about more than 500 izakaya on the site.

Regarding what makes an izakaya attractive, Hamada said, "People in the neighborhood gather, and their talk is full of local topics. Depending on the izakaya, the atmosphere is different. At one, the proprietor is an old guy like an old-fashioned dad, and at another, she is a gentle mother. Like in a hot spring, you can welter in an atmosphere handed down from generation to generation."

The first franchise shop of the izakaya chain Yoronotaki (waterfall for the aged) Co. opened in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward in April 1966, and similar izakaya have since mushroomed.

The first of the Murasaki (come to the village) Corp. izakaya chain was opened in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward in 1973. In the same year, the Tsubohachi (8 tsubo) chain began its business by opening a shop that had a floor space of 8 tsubo (26.4 square meters), in Sapporo's Nishi Ward, Hokkaido.

Their openings coincided with the graduation from university and entry into the working world of the baby boomer generation born shortly after World War II. At that time, izakaya were considered to be places for company employees to drink with their workmates and young people to make a rumpus in groups, but that image has drastically changed in recent years.

"With the spread of chain shops, they have become beautiful, and the quality of food served has been improved. Also, the quality of service has been improved. That was needed to attract the young, and women and families," said Miki Watanabe, 46, president of Watami Co, which runs some 600 Watami and other izakaya nationwide.

Women account for 60% of the customers at Watami izakayas, and there are also many families who use the chain. Nonsmokers can also enjoy eating out for a change as there are glass barriers to separate the smoking and nonsmoking areas.

Customers can enjoy "real food" with no chemical seasoning and in a quiet atmosphere at the Zen No Ya (natural house), and married couples can eat and drink at ease at the Watamin-Chi (Watami's house), where most dishes are priced at 200 yen to 300 yen each. Thus, Watami is trying to attract as many customers as possible by responding to their needs.

Watanabe said, "When you drink with your friends, you change shops depending on them. When you go out with your family, the shop you go once a week is different from that you go to once a month. In a rich age, the lifestyle has become segmented. Izakaya have to respond to the needs of these customers."

In the high economic growth period in the 1960s, overtime and drinking afterward was the normal lifestyle for the "salaryman," but now, young people who work for companies are changing their "after 5" lifestyle.

Folk singer Kenichi Nagira, 54, said, "Izakaya were an after-5 relaxation place for baby boomers, who had to work hard and are still trapped in the feeling they have an obligation to do so. They need to find something interesting."

Hamada said, "For baby boomers and people before them, izakaya and cheap drinking places were places to take their mind off their companies. But now, they are places to enjoy a free time."

© 2006 Kyodo News. August 9, 2006
© The Japan Times, August 15, 2006

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There are a lot of drinking and eating places in Japan called
"DARUMA だるま　達磨　".


. Izakaya, 居酒屋, public drinking house - INFO - .

. Izakaya ... die japanische Kneipe .





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Donji Kanji Riddles

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Donji 　鈍字　Kanji Riddles

Amusing riddles with the spelling of Chinese Characters (kanji 漢字), which the grown-up children of Edo liked to ask each other. This was part of the puns and word plays (dajare), see below.
大江戸の鈍字
Below the bamboo crown



竹冠の下に間をあけて廾を書いたもの(ヨリ正確に記せば、廾の右下に点を打つ)を、誰れがつぶした筭{そろばん}を玉がない(筭(算)字も正確には王を玉、廾は右下に点を打つ)と解くものだけれど、これを「玉」と「目」の草書体同士が近似した形であるところから成立する鈍字である.
http://snob.s1.xrea.com/l/2006/06

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The World of Word Plays
ことばあそびのせかい kotoba asobi no sekai
著者名： 小野恭靖

第三章　漢字遊びの世界
　　第一節 〝嘘字〟と〝鈍字〟
『鈍字集　初篇』


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TATSU 立



Write WOMAN 女 below STANDING　立
http://www.humikura.com/eha/toku/ega-etc-38.html


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鈍字集（どんじしゅう）Donji Collection

Sample


同志社大学　山田和人
Doshisha University


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鈍字では昔と言う漢字を「弘法大師」と読ませています。その解説は、「昔からご縁日」と記されています。
　漢字「昔」を分解すると、〔廾（二十）・一・日］21日は弘法さんの縁日です。

This one is in honor of Kobo Daishi.
His memorial day is the 21. The kanji for 昔 (mukashi) above the temple is written with a combination of the numbers 20 廾 and 1 一 and day 日.





「内に人がない」ので、「留守」

Inside the kanji 内 there is no human being, so this means

"No one at home".

source : bonito_1929


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Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳
Yose-e 寄せ絵


Gather Together Pictures (?yaso-e)

Each of these prints bears a different title in a rectangular red cartouche. The text above the heads is sometimes humorous with many puns (kyôbun).



Title:
At first glance he looks fierce, but he is really a kind person
(Mikake wa koi-i tonda iku hitoda)

source : www.kuniyoshiproject.com


描いたのは、蜻蛉屋ではもうおなじみ歌川国芳（うたがわくによし 1797-1861）。
これらの絵は「寄せ絵」と呼ばれています。
source : yokomichi/kuniyoshi

nazo e 謎絵 riddle pictures

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Puns and Word Plays, dajare　駄洒落 of Old Edo


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Old People and Daruma

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老人ホーム　- 　old people's home
institution for senior citizens


Old People painting Daruma



サンハイム利用者さん達の日々の生活の様子
The Life at Sun-Heim

☆工作クラブ２００４年１２月１８日



新年にむけて、だるまを画きました。見本の絵を見ながら、皆さん上手に、熱心に筆を動かし、何枚も続けて画かれた方もいました。


Look at the Life in this home for old people
http://sanhaimu.com/sp.html

source : sun-hime arakawa

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Day Service Care デイサービス
in Kirishima, Satsuki corporation



福だるま作り　Making Lucky Daruma




source :　zen-kokoro.com

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There are other activities, like elderly playing at
Daruma otoshi and more . . .

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. WKD : Getting Old - with Haiku .


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