No eyes?

This is a Daruma doll(達磨, Daruma). It is imitation ornament of Bodhidharma Zazen.

Eyes are sold in blank. They pray for something. If it is achieved, it is customary to write the Daruma eyes.

Ring-Ring ♪

Wind bells market in Kawasaki Daishi.







Around the beginning of summer, various wind bells are collected from all over Japan.
Here you can see the difference of each characteristics.

Sermon

Kōbō-Daishi(弘法大師) says.
When a heart is seized with worldly desires such as the darkness, all the things to come across become the evil. However, if open eyes of the enlightenment, all the things to come across are precious.



This statue is called "Jikokuten(持国天)".
It is one of the guardian deity protecting the east of the Four Heavenly Kings.

Exorcism

This is popular name Kawasaki Daishi(川崎大師). The official name is Heiken-ji(平間寺).
Here is located in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture.

Dancing clouds

Sunny days, cheerful clouds.

Only one

Flower colors look the same, but each one has the feature.
It is the same a human being, too.

Sun ball

Have a lot of sun exposure, and its power is represented in orange.

Floral scent

Eyes are nailed to the beauty of flowers, and the fragrance heals me.

Shift

To live life to the fullest, be not afraid a change.

Escarpment

Do you like a view from the hill?




West Japan in the Edo period(1603-1868), the small size of the clan, many of them narrow alluvial plain too.
Therefore, to increase the incomes of the clan, often paddy fields were made to the slope of mountain.
Tradition of Rice Terraces(棚田, Tanada) is succeeded to now.

Poios

This is a place called the Rice Terraces. There are a lot of it in Japan.

Star Festival

七夕(Tanabata, July 7) is said to be a combination of Chinese tradition with beliefs peculiar to Japan.

It celebrates the meeting, just once a year, of two lovers, Hikoboshi (the star Altair, personified as a cowherd) and Orihime (Vega, as a weaving girl), who are separated by the Milky Way on the other days of the year.





In general, a strip of paper to write their wishes are carried out to decorate bamboo leaves.

The sun blooms

The day was cloudy, but we felt better by virtue of yellow flowers.
This is a blessing of the sun, too.

Nightfall

Sun goes down, and night goes on.
So far, it has been repeated on several occasions.