In the Muromachi period the idea of celebrating the '7 Gods of Fortune' began in Kyōto, and it is likely that the first Shichifukujin Mairi pilgrimage (都七福神まいり) originated at Ebisu-jinja (えびす神社).
From Kyōto similar pilgrimages spread across Japan.
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Ebisu-jinja's 'Tōka Ebisu Matsuri' (十日えびす祭 'Ebisu’s Festival on the 10th Day') is held around Ebisu's birthday on January 10th (he was born in the Year of the Tiger).
As he god of business prosperity, fisherman, and good fortune, Ebisu is one of the most popular of the '7 Gods of Fortune' (七福神).
Symbols of Luck, Fortune, Prosperity, Happiness??
I've seen the same big bottle decorated with the Seven Lucky Gods in another Izakaya Japanese pub.. This Tanuki Racoon dog is a nice size and might seem more friendly than the ones with bared teeth...
#七福神 #狸 #タヌキ #RaccoonDogFigure #SevenLuckyGods #SevenLuckyGodsBottle
I've seen the same big bottle decorated with the Seven Lucky Gods in another Izakaya Japanese pub.. This Tanuki Racoon dog is a nice size and might seem more friendly than the ones with bared teeth...
#七福神 #狸 #タヌキ #RaccoonDogFigure #SevenLuckyGods #SevenLuckyGodsBottle
#ThrowbackThursday ⛩ 8AM＠JP
#振り返る木曜日 あさ8時 ⛩ おはようございます
Today is the final day of the Ebisu Fes. #Ebisu is one of the #SevenGods of Fortune, always full of wealth and never without a #smile😊 Visitors at the shrine shout "Bring me the bamboo!" and pray for a year of abundant happiness.
May you all spend the year with smiles,🙏🎋 Have a nice day✨
今日は残り戎の日です、#恵比寿神 は #七福神 の中でもふくよかで、#笑顔 を絶やさない神様です😊 ”笹持って来い！”と囃し立て、1年を豊かに過ごせるよう願います
1年じゅう笑顔で過ごせますように🙏🎋今日も良い日を✨
#aiart #morning #おはよう #bingimagecreator
In the Muromachi period the idea of celebrating the Seven Gods of Fortune began in Kyōto. It is the oldest of the Shichi Fukujin Mairi (都七福神まいり) pilgrimages.
From Kyōto it spread across Japan.
It's popular to pilgrimage on the New Year and on the 7th of each month.
Placing an image of the Takarabune beneath your pillow on January 2nd is said to encourage dreams. If you dream of the boat, the year will be a lucky one.
In this busy twilight period between the old year and the new the 'Seven Gods of Fortune' (七福神) provide a useful service.
As a group they can pretty much answer all your prayers, from health to happiness, from improved business to improved brain capacity.
🙏🍀'THE SEVEN GODS OF FORTUNE' (七福神)🪙💸
O New Year's god
this year too
send help!
とし神やことしも御世話下さるる
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶).
Trans. David G. Lanoue.
As the year draws to a close, images of seven cheerful figures (often riding a treasure laden boat) begin to appear all over Japan.
The Shichifukujin journey in the Takarabune (宝船 'Treasure Ship') to the human realm for the first three days of New Year.
Although Santa has readily been embraced in Japan, there was another cheerful, big-bellied figure bringing cheer to children long before old Father Christmas arrived on these shores.
Hotei (布袋) was a Chinese monk that lived in the coastal district of Wuyue. After his death, around 917, he became a Buddhist saint and was eventually made one of the 'Seven Gods of Fortune' (七福神) in Japan.
He shares many similarities with old Father Christmas.
Someone on Mastodon shared #DavidGraeber's review of #CarlosSeveri's The #ChimeraPrinciple. Now I want to read the book and wonder more about the roots of the #Tanuki #RacoonDog figures and the #ShichiFukuJin figures, Especially these wooden #FukuRokuJyu figures.
> Much of what we have considered “primitive art,” the author argues, were not meant as self-contained objects in their own right, or even as elements in some larger performance, but as memory cues to texts—usually to be performed in some sort of ritual context—whose exact nature is, often as not, entirely lost to us. These images were never meant to exist apart from words. Yet those words were a form of artistry in and of themselves. The conclusion immediately shatters half a dozen complacent assumptions we normally bring, unthinkingly, to any analysis of comparative aesthetics: the assumption of a simple distinction between “orality” and “literacy,” for example; the notion of “picture-writing”; most of our assumptions about the relationship between icon, ritual, and text. And that shattering of assumptions, in turn, proves endlessly productive.
- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-concerning-mental-pivots-and-civilizations-of-memory?v=1676743668
#七福神 #福禄寿 #たぬき #タヌキ
> Much of what we have considered “primitive art,” the author argues, were not meant as self-contained objects in their own right, or even as elements in some larger performance, but as memory cues to texts—usually to be performed in some sort of ritual context—whose exact nature is, often as not, entirely lost to us. These images were never meant to exist apart from words. Yet those words were a form of artistry in and of themselves. The conclusion immediately shatters half a dozen complacent assumptions we normally bring, unthinkingly, to any analysis of comparative aesthetics: the assumption of a simple distinction between “orality” and “literacy,” for example; the notion of “picture-writing”; most of our assumptions about the relationship between icon, ritual, and text. And that shattering of assumptions, in turn, proves endlessly productive.
- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-concerning-mental-pivots-and-civilizations-of-memory?v=1676743668
#七福神 #福禄寿 #たぬき #タヌキ
#FukuRokuJyu, one of the #SevenLuckyGods now holds flowers in place of a staff. A sister in Virginia shared the epiphany.
#福禄寿 #七福神 #SpiritsOfAbundance
#福禄寿 #七福神 #SpiritsOfAbundance
We went to a park with coffee and sandwiches this morning. The little hot-sandwich and coffee place run by nice young women had too many people in it, and the weather was nice. So we stumbled into a flea market. At first I was going to skip it and just lounge under a shady tree and read, but... I ended up finding a nice #FukuRokuJyu wooden figure, and another scarier wooden figure that shares some characteristics. The wood is fun to look at and eventually someone else is interested enough to take them... I like the simpler wood that still has a lot of area left as is, unsculpted... But the other one is interesting. I'll have to ask a Chinese student if the designs on the big figure mean anything...
#SevenLuckyGods #七福神 #福禄寿
#SevenLuckyGods #七福神 #福禄寿
A little #Tanuki (#RaccoonDog) ceramic figure with #DaiKokuten (One of the Seven Lucky Gods of Fortune: Spirits of Abundance to me)..
#タヌキ #たぬき #大黒天 #七福神
#タヌキ #たぬき #大黒天 #七福神
@bsmall2@pixelfed.social やっぱり素焼き(？)がいいですね!
大黒天(だいこくてん)の始まり、大黒女(だいこくにょう)の素焼きもあればいいなぁぁ。 えびすさんと大黒女が一緒に飲んだら、どんな状況になるのかな？
#七福神 #大黒天 #恵比須 #えびす
Baked ceramic is better, for getting through the rain and a typhoon anyway. The orange thin-terracotta-like DaiKokuTen has been out by the gate through all kinds of weather for over a year now I think. I put him (he may have started out as a her, DaiKokuNyou from India...) down by the door for the typhoon. The Great Darkness might protect the house and, in a corner the wind would be less likely to break the ceramic. But the the pair, DaikokuTen with Ebisu, didn't make out to well. The pair was in a more protected place but what little rain got to them started taking off their paint. Fascinating to see that they are made out of what seems to be an un-baked ceramic or cement-like material. It seems biodegradable. I might just bury them out by the compost bins. Recycle shop owners will sometimes give these sort of figures away. I buy the woodeng FukuRokuJyu figures as fashion models: they look a little like Kropotkin. But the other happy figures like HoTei and these two are fun too. Now I know to avoid the melty figures and go for the terra-cotta-ish figures. That Tanuki raccon-dog figures are fascinating too: but a bit involved, bigger and lacquered and more expensive.
#SevenLuckyGods #ShichiFukuJIn #七福神 #大黒天 #恵比須 #えびす
#SevenLuckyGods #ShichiFukuJIn #七福神 #大黒天 #恵比須 #えびす
YakuSugi, YakuShima Cedar, carvings of the one of the #SevenLuckyGods, #HoTei, and another creation I've never seen before, and traditional masks for ceremonial dances that re-enact myths. #Hotei is the attitude to have for a vacation!! #七福神 #布袋 #民芸センタ− #霧島神宮 #鹿児島県 #面
YakuSugi, YakuShima Cedar, carvings of the some of the #SevenLuckyGods, #HoTei, #DaiKokuTen, and #Ebisu. Hotei shows how it feels to be on vacation!!
#七福神 #布袋 #大黒天 #恵比寿 #えびす #民芸センタ− #霧島神宮 #鹿児島県
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