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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 7 hours ago

🍶😵‍💫THE TEMPLE OF ABSTINENCE🙏✨

Jizō-in (地蔵院) hasn't survived the ravages of time well, but it has some extraordinary tales to tell.
Many know the tiny temple as 'Tsubaki-dera' (椿寺) after a camellia shrub that was smuggled from a Korean castle and later gifted by a warlord.

#Jizoin #地蔵院 #Kyoto #京都

A carpet of fallen pink camellia flowers.

Jizo-in's 'Jizo Hall', enshrining the statue that gives the temple it's name.

Jizo-in's spectacular camellia bush, absolutely bursting with flowers.

Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · 7 hours ago

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊臣秀吉) gifted the 'goshiki yaechiri tsubaki' (五色八重散椿) to the temple following the 'Grand Kitano Tea Ceremony' (北野大茶湯) in 1587.
The original tree perished (the wood now preserved), but the current camellia is its 120 year old descendant.
#Kyoto #京都

Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · 6 hours ago

✨goshiki (五色)= 'multicoloured'
✨yae (八重)= 'multilayered'
✨chiri (散)= 'shedding petals'
✨tsubaki (椿)= 'camellia'

Samurai mostly considered camellia unlucky as the flower heads typically dropped whole (like a beheading), but this species drop their petals one at a time🙌

Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · 6 hours ago

It's thought that the daimyō Katō Kiyomasa (加藤清正 1562-1611) brought the bush back to Japan from the Korean mainland following a campaign against Urusan Castle (蔚山城の戦い) some time around 1596.
He presented it to Toyotomi who had it planted first at Kitano Tenmangū.
#Kyoto

Grand Kitano Tea Gathering monument at Kitano Tenman-gu.

Painting of the Campaign against Urusan Castle on the Korean mainland.

Woodblock print of Daimyo Kato Kiyomasa on horseback.

Image thanks - https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/ — Woodblock print of Daimyo Kato Kiyomasa on horseback. Image thanks - https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/

Jizo-in's 120 year old 'goshiki yaechiri tsubaki' camellia bush.

Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · 5 hours ago

🫴🍑
It's believed that drinking an infusion of camellia leaves helps to alleviate hemorrhoids🥹✨

Because it drops its petals one by one this species is also known as 'long life camellia' (長命椿) and 'scattering camellia' (散り椿).
#Japan #camellias

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