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Daimyo Nagai Naomasa’s Kosho-ji Temple in Uji-Gyoban is a wooden fish-shaped drum, which serves as a signal to start and end rituals, meditation sessions and meals. The fish-shaped drums are common in Zen temples in Japan. Gyoban is also called Gyoko, Mokugyoku, or Ho. In Buddhism, the fish, which never sleeps, symbolises wakefulness and devotion to training.
(115) Daimyo Oak, gift to Anson Burlingame, U.S Envoy to China, Lincoln administration in 1863 in Japan on his way home from a trip to China. Lake Merritt Bonsai Garden, Oakland, CA , New Year's Day 2010. Photo taken in Summer 2009.
Japan - Lions raised funds, purchased relief supplies and shipped the supplies to Fukushima.
Photo courtesy of Lion Shuichiro Tokunaga, Fukuoka Daimyo Lions Club in 337-A (Fukuoka)
Late 1500s to 1800s
Iron with leather, lacquer, silk, cotton, hair, wood and brass
Collection of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia; gift of Trevor Absolon. 2009.038.004
Photo: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
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Fin du 16e - 19e siècle
Fer avec cuir, laque, soie, coton, cheveux, bois et laiton
Collection de l’Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Colombie-Britannique); don de Trevor Absolon. 2009.038.004
Photo : Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Japan - Lions raised funds, purchased relief supplies and shipped the supplies to Fukushima.
Photo courtesy of Lion Shuichiro Tokunaga, Fukuoka Daimyo Lions Club in 337-A (Fukuoka)
By: N.C. Feist, 18
Briarcliff Manor, New York
The Lotus Pond
as they are,
unplucked
Spirit's Festival
BrickFair Virginia 2011
The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum: The Samurai Collection
Norimono, palanquin, Edo period, 19th century, gold, lacquer, wood, bamboo, paper, pigment.
Used as transportation, individual - usually daimyo or wife, interior is painted, carried by two attendants
One of a number of gates into Dôshisha campus, this one is called "daimyô mon," or "Lord's Gate," and is associated with the Satsuma mansion that used to be on this site. Whether this actual gate, ie these exact pieces of wood, actually dates back that far (only about 150 years; it's certainly possible), I'm not sure. But in terms of architectural style and such, it's certainly believable.
Hamarikyu Gardens is a public park alongside Tokyo Bay next to the futuristic Shiodome district. The park is at the mouth of the Sumida River and is a landscaped stroll garden surrounding Shioiri Pond, whose level changes with the tides. The park is surrounded by a moat filled by Tokyo Bay and was once the site of a villa of a feudal lord. It later became the Imperial guesthouse. In 1946 it became a public park. Traditional falcon and goshawk hunting techniques are demonstrated daily. I can't believe I missed that!
Daimyo's tomb at Okunoin, Koya-san, Summer 2009.
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Daimyo were served by loyal warriors called samurai. For safety, farmers and small landowners traded parts of their land to strong warlords in exchange for protection. With more land, the lords gained more power. This marked the beginning of a feudal system of localized rule like that of ancient China and medieval Europe. Samurai Warriors. Since wars between rival lords were commonplace, each lord surrounded himself with a bodyguard of loyal warriors called samurai (SAM•uh•RY). (Samurai means one who serves. ) Samurai lived according to a demanding code of behavior called Bushido (BUSH•ih•DOH), or the way of the warrior. A samurai was expected to show reckless courage, reverence for the gods, fairness, and generosity toward those weaker than himself. Dying an honorable death was judged more important than living a long life. The Kamakura Shogunate. During the late 1100s, Japan’s two most powerful clans fought for power. After almost 30 years of war, the Minamoto family emerged victorious. In 1192, the emperor gave a Minamoto leader named Yoritomo the title of shogun, or supreme general of the emperor’s army. In effect, the shogun had the powers of a military dictator. Following tradition, the emperor still reigned from Kyoto. (Kyoto was rebuilt on the ruins of Heian, which had been destroyed in war.) However, the real center of power was at the shogun’s military headquarters at Kamakura (KAHM•uh•KUR•uh). The 1200s are known in Japanese history as the Kamakura shogunate. The pattern of government in which shoguns ruled through puppet emperors lasted in Japan until The Kamakura shoguns were strong enough to turn back the two naval invasions sent by the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan in 1274 and However, the Japanese victory over the Mongols drained the shoguns’ treasury. Loyal samurai were bitter when the government failed to pay them. The Kamakura shoguns lost prestige and power. Samurai attached themselves more closely to their local lords, who soon fought one another as fiercely as they had fought the Mongols. The emperor had little real power.
Hamarikyu Gardens is a public park alongside Tokyo Bay next to the futuristic Shiodome district. The park is at the mouth of the Sumida River and is a landscaped stroll garden surrounding Shioiri Pond, whose level changes with the tides. The park is surrounded by a moat filled by Tokyo Bay and was once the site of a villa of a feudal lord. It later became the Imperial guesthouse. In 1946 it became a public park. Traditional falcon and goshawk hunting techniques are demonstrated daily. I can't believe I missed that!
THIS RAKUSANEN GARDEN is the only lord fame garden in Gunma prefecture attached to the clan residence of the 20,000 KOKU of the Obata clan.
JAPANESE GARDEN
EARLY EDO PERIOD.
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Kuroda Toshio had a fascinating theory about Medieval Japan. Briefly put, what we now consider Shinto did not exist in the medieval era, what existed was a religious establishment characterized by the kenmitsu system. This was a system of exoteric and esoteric practices, heavily Buddhist. Kukai's Shingon school was seen as one of the main players in this system. So perhaps seeing torii gates and shrines on holy Buddhist mountain centers ought not surprise.
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Roofs of the Kondo (left) and Konpon Daito at Mt. Koya, summer 2009.
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Blues alliance with green was terminated by blue using his Ninja to kill the green son, leaving his daughter to green.
Yellow made an alliance with blue,
Reds fate was to lose both Diamyo making him Ronin, green is now Ronin as blue took his castle causing his last Diamyo to commit seppuku in shame
Blue is now winning with both 4 castles and Diamyo - may soon be 3 onto 1
The game continues
Lots to think about, yes there's lots of luck but skill behind it makes it work in your favour
Stand in front of this impressive building and imagine all the Samurai, Ninja and medieval action...
Plum blossoms against the backdrop of a red bridge in the New Otani's garden.
The garden of the New Otani Hotel in Tokyo stands on the property that was once the primary yashiki (estate) of the great Sengoku period feudal lord, Katō Kiyomasa (1562-1611). Kiyomasa was a trusted retainer and general of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the warlord who unified Japan in the wake of Oda Nobunaga’s assassination in 1582. Kiyomasa rose to fame during the battle of Shizugatake and soon found himself at the vanguard of many of Hideyoshi’s campaigns, including the invasion of Korea in 1592, in which Kiyomasa’s reputation as a master tactician, fierce fighter, castle builder and as a cruel man grew. To this day, the mere mention of Kiyomasa’s name in Korea is sure to bring a frown. Although loyal to the Toyotomi, if there was one thing that Kiyomasa hated more than Christianity and poor martial spirit among the samurai, it was Ishida Mitsunari, leader of the Western coalition of daimyo that opposed the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu. It was this hatred of Mitsunari that drove Kiyomasa into the Tokugawa camp where he played a pivotal role in the Kyushu theatre of the Sekigahara campaign in 1600. As a result of his service, Kiyomasa was rewarded by becoming one of the elite daimyo who were allowed to build his Edo estate near the shogun’s castle in the upscale area that became known as Kioi-cho, named after the elite Kii Tokugawa, Owari Tokugawa and Ii daimyo families that kept their residences in this area.
As Kiyomasa was loyal to the house of Toyotomi and as a final showdown between the Tokugawa and Toyotomi grew, the Tokugawa began to have their doubts about where Kiyomasa’s ultimate loyalty rested. Fearful of having to face this fierce and influential warlord on the opposing side of the battlefield when the fighting would inevitably erupt in 1615, it has been suggested that the Tokugawa had him poisoned. Shortly after the fall of the Toyotomi, Kiyomasa’s son was accused of disloyalty (most likely a trumped up charge) and the family’s fief in Kumamoto, Kyushu was seized by the shogunate and the clan was abolished. Soon after this, the grounds of the Katō estate in Tokyo were given to the Ii family.
When the New Otani Hotel was constructed, it was decided to keep the traditional Japanese garden intact. Today the garden covers more than 10 acres and has over 800 trees, 10,000 flowering plants, ponds, a waterfall, and 42 stone lanterns, many of which date back from the Edo (1603-1868) and the Kamakura (1192-1333) periods.
Daimyo Nagai Naomasa’s Kosho-ji Temple in Uji-Gyoban is a wooden fish-shaped drum, which serves as a signal to start and end rituals, meditation sessions and meals. The fish-shaped drums are common in Zen temples in Japan. Gyoban is also called Gyoko, Mokugyoku, or Ho. In Buddhism, the fish, which never sleeps, symbolises wakefulness and devotion to training.