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🏊‍♂️🧢🏉SPORTS DAY🥏🥎🧗‍♂️

Happy 'Health and Sports Day' (体育の日 'Taiiku-no-hi')!🥳
As you might expect, we'll be celebrating with lashings of tea and sweets, and as the holiday commemorates the 1964 Tōkyō Olympics there's a subtle Olympic theme to today's offerings🏅

#体育の日 #healthandsportsday #olympics

A sumptuous lunch box filled with colourful seafood and vegetables.

Colourful macarons hinting at the Olympic rings.

One of my favourite tea bowls. Purchased for the Tokyo Olympics it depicts mice holding the Olympic rings. The pandemic delayed the Olympics, so in the end it didn't take place in the Year of the Rat.

A Japanese flag inspired sweet (the flag sits on a red bean paste with a thin layer of jelly covering the round confection).

Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · last month

Nao-san is forever determined to show off how sporty she is in kimono...

...here she is navigating 'Sagi-ike' (鷺池 'Heron Pond') in Nara Park (奈良公園)🚣‍♂️

#体育の日 #HealthandSportsDay #Japan #Nara #奈良 #鷺池 #奈良公園 #NaraPark

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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

In 1185 Taira-no-Shigehira (平重衡) was executed by Tōdai-ji and his head nailed to Hannya-ji's torii.
Five years earlier he had led an attack on the powerful temples of Nara. After one of his men accidentally started a fire, he simply stood at Hannya-ji and watched the city burn.

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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · 2 months ago

A small store behind Hannya-ji, cashing in on Nara's famous daibutsu (大仏), has created a 'Great Buddha soda'. The big ball of hair is cotton candy, which can be eaten or used to sweeten the (already sweet) drink🤪🥤

#般若寺 #Hannyaji #大仏 #Nara #奈良 #東大寺 #daibutsu

The 'Great Buddha soda', a soft drink topped with a big afro made from cotton candy.

Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

Nao-san has not quite lost her mind...

Close to the temple's main hall is a large rock known as 'kanman-ishi' (カンマン石), on which stands an image of Fudō Myōō (不動明王). It is said those who place their back and bellies against the rock will be granted good health.
#奈良 #Nara

Fudo Myoo and the main hall of Hannya-ji.

Visitors to Hannya-ji place their bellies and back against the 'Kanman-ishi'. It is said the rock grants good health.

A small statue of Fudo Myoo stands on top of 'Kanman-ishi', a large rock in the grounds of Hannya-ji.

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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

It seems that Ekan (慧灌 'Hyegwan'), a monk from the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo, first founded a monastic complex here in 629.
Originally known as Hannyadai (般若台), in 735 Emperor Shōmu renamed the temple Hannya-ji (般若寺) after gifting it a copy of the Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra.

#Nara #奈良 #慧灌

The main hall of Hannya-ji, beyond grounds filled with cosmos.

In the grounds of Hannya-ji during autumn there are various 'displays' of cosmos.

A heart of cosmos frames the stone pagoda at Hannya-ji.

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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

cosmos flowers-
old storehouses along with
an old canal
秋ざくら倉庫とともに運河古る
-Akatsuka Gogyō (赤塚五行).

🤔I was going to mute the video, but I think this is a more honest glimpse of how noisy popular sites get😑

#Hannyaji #Nara #cosmos #般若寺 #奈良 #コスモス

Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

🙏BIG BUDDHA AMONGST THE COSMOS😇

Nara is one of the best places in Japan to see cosmos, and in recent years Hannya-ji (般若寺) has taken great efforts to make itself one of the best places in Nara to enjoy the flowers...
...that, and a very unusual soda🥤

#Japan #コスモス #奈良