#Japonia #ciekawostki #Fukurokuju to jedno z #Shichifukujin, czyli siedmiu bóstw szczęścia. Widuje się je pojedynczo lub razem w postaci różnych wyobrażeń, figurek, ornamentów, a nawet zabawek. Buddyjski ( #buddymz) kapłan #Tenkai nauczał, że na szczęście składa się siedem cnót: długowieczność, bogactwo, sława, szczerość, życzliwość, godność i wielkoduszność. Fukurokuju reprezentuje długowieczność i mądrość. Można go rozpoznać po wielkiej, owalnej głowie i małym ciałku. Nosi ze sobą zwój #makimono, oznaczający czas życia każdego człowieka. Czasem towarzyszy mu bociam, #symbol długiego życia. W pierwszym wcieleniu był chińskim filozofem i prorokiem.
> - fragment z #UsagiYoimbo księga 4. Notatki #Stan-Sakai

In Japanese folklore the Shichifukujin are the Seven Lucky Gods who may also be known as the Seven Gods of Happiness or the Seven Gods of Good Fortune. https://www.worldhistory.org/Shichifukujin/ #History #ItsukushimaShrine #Kami #Shichifukujin

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

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