#大箱

[shirozen]

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[daily-hyosatsu]

A perplexing sight near the bathrooms in a Tokyo Metro station: a metal locker labeled おが屑箱. With a big old padlock. What is it???

I know that 屑 [くず] means waste or scraps, and that 箱 (as we've covered before) means box. And logically it should be some kind of trashcan, because that's the meaning of both 屑入れ [くずいれ] (literally, "waste put-into") and ゴミ箱 [ごみばこ] ("garbage box"), but this obviously isn't for passengers to use—it's locked! And what kind of waste or scraps does a railway...... generate? ...need to hold onto? ...have to lock up?

In other words. What is おが? I had no guess whatsoever until I saw it written in kanji: 大鋸!

I'm sure you know 大 big, and I recognize 鋸 from hiking 鋸山 Nokogiriyama, or Saw Mountain.

[x] Wow. I should go back there. They have a big Buddha and everything.

The mountain's name comes from the shape of this outcropping, which resembles this kind of saw...... [x]

...while 大鋸 often refers to a pit saw, like this one (I think) [x]......

The character 鋸 is read のこ, のこぎり, キョ, or コ. Its components are 金 metal, which hints at the meaning, and 居 to reside/exist, which provides both of the on-yomi readings.

So next I wondered why these two radicals combine to make saw. Apparently the original meaning of 居 was to fix [something] in place, and, in ancient China—prepare for sudden mood shift!—they would punish criminals by sawing their feet off! The kanji 鋸 was created for the metal stand used to secure their feet. Over time, it eventually came to mean saw.

Okay, so that's two questions answered: (1) おが屑 means sawdust, and (2) saw is written 鋸 because people just won't stay still when you try to saw their feet off, but we still have one mystery remaining—why do they keep a box of sawdust at the train station? That one's actually simple: for cleaning! Especially on rainy days, when everyone tracks in water and the tile floors get all slippery. Sawdust absorbs moisture and then is easily swept up. Mystery solved.

[iso-photo]

ここへの一人旅は何回目だろう。

10回は行ってないのは確かだが、数えてないから分からないし、特に数える意味もない。

行って川沿いを歩いたり、お決まりの店で食事をするくらいだが、こうやってこの空間に身を置くことに意味があり、目的である。

明日明後日、その先と、自分という生き物をやれている間は、心が求めたらまた来よう。

[merpmonde]

Hakone Ropeway

The gondola lift up the Schauinsland is very good, but my favourite so far is definitely the Hakone Ropeway. After the train into Hakone, another train to Gôra, and a funicular, the last leg up the mountain is covered by this funitel, on which cars are suspended by two cables rather than one.

The Ropeway carries passengers up to Ôwakudani through the forest... at least as far as that ridge.

Mount Hakone is an active volcano and "Ôwakudani", 大涌谷, literally means "great boiling valley", featuring bright yellow sulphur deposits and gas vents. Going from lush green slopes to the mineral hellscape of the crater in an instant is a breathtaking contrast, and one of my all-time favourite moments from my travels.

The Ropeway can obviously only run when the volcano isn't too active. When I first rode it in 2016, staff handed out damp tissues for passengers to cover their nose and mouth and protect themselves against the gases. After traversing the crater, the Ropeway continues down the other side of the mountain to the North end of Lake Ashi, where one would continue a tour by boarding one of the "pirate ships" that cruise on the lake.

[yoooko-o]

22/09/2023

出水市の加紫久利(かしくり)神社⛩️

本殿は風鈴の門となっていました🎐風が吹いたときの風鈴の音がとても涼しげでした🎐

帰りに神社の敷地内でモンキアゲハ(紋黄揚羽、Papilio helenus)を目撃🦋

引き続き、出水市にある箱﨑八幡神社へ⛩️

時期によっては、多くの人で賑わっていますが、この日は貸切状態でした。

「成せば成(鳴)る。大願成就の大鈴」🔔

日本一の大鈴、日本一小さな鈴があります🔔

[pix4japan]

Lake Ashi and Mt. Fuji

The Hakone Taikanzan Observatory in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, is on the list of Japan’s Top 100 Scenic Spots—a list that was originally compiled by two major newspapers in 1927.

After several visits to this site in 2022, I was finally able to catch a clear shot of Mt. Fuji towering over Lake Ashinoko in the foreground.

Prior to the pandemic, tour buses filled the nearby parking lot and the local city bus made regular stops at the Taikanzan bus stop. I have no idea if and when services will resume, but if you have a driver’s license,  driving to the peak is half the fun of visiting this peak, especially if you take the Hakone Turnpike from Odawara.

Note that many online English articles of this mountain peak refer to “大観山” as Daikanzan, which is also how some Japanese visitors will assume the kanji is read. However, the correct name is Taikanzan, which you can see on the sign at the nearby bus stop, and is also the reading used by material provided by both the Odakyu train line and the Izu-Hakone bus timetable.

Pentax K-1 II + DFA 28-105mm F3.5-5.6 53 mm ISO 100 for 13.0 sec. at ƒ/20

[shirasuphoto]

No.432　浪漫八景　駆け抜けた思い出-小田急ロマンスカー LSE

[japanfilmclub]

Labyrinth of Cinema (2019) 『海辺の映画館－キネマの玉手箱』 Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi 大林 宣彦

[stationpic01]

2018.9.17 Daiyuzan Station 伊豆箱根鉄道 大雄山線 大雄山駅

[blue-belta]

教室のみなさんと、 #箱根 の #星の王子さまミュージアム が話題になりました。 3月31日で閉園になるんですよね。 残念。 私は2019年8月に行きました。 サン=テグジュペリの「 #人間の土地 」 （今は「 #人間の大地 」）が好きで、身近に置いて愛読しています。 乗ってきた飛行機にも興味がありましたし。 なので、行ってみたかったんですよね。 このイラストは、その時撮った写真をモデルに描きました。 とっても気に入って、また行きたいと思っていたのに、残念ながら3月までには行けそうもなくて。 行けるチャンスがある方は、行ってみてはいかがかしら？ #art #moleskine #pensketch #coloredpencil #fabercastell #polychromos #japan #hakone #littleprince #色鉛筆 #モレスキン #1日1絵 #イラストグラム #絵を描く暮らし #今日何描こう #今日何描いた　#絵を描く暮ら https://www.instagram.com/p/CnWq_rJpN2K/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ot9000]

海辺の映画館　キネマの玉手箱 Labyrinth of Cinema

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi　大林宣彦 2019 Japan

[chiefbelieverllama]

下午茶文化的由來 製作美味小點心4

[umifani]

天然石のコーヒーテーブル シンプルなデザイン コーヒーテーブル サイドテーブル

[merpmonde]

What to do at Ôwakudani

... or what to do on the summit of an active volcano. As inauspicious as that sounds, as long as Mount Hakone's activity can be described as moderate (localised fumaroles and hot springs) and a full-blown eruption doesn't happen, and that hasn't happened in thousands of years, it's possible to settle some permanent attractions. The Ropeway is undoubtedly one of them, and the Geomuseum, housing explanations about the mountain's history and geological peculiarities, was a very pertinent addition 10 years ago.

However, the summit's biggest draw has to be its black eggs. No, black eggs aren't what you get when you raise chickens at the top of an active volcano, but it's what you get when you boil eggs in the natural volcanic spring water on Mount Hakone.

So a few restaurants have popped up in Ôwakudani to serve these curious delicacies. To be clear, it's just the shells that turn black due to the minerals in the hot spring water; they still protect the inside from those minerals, and the egg cooks perfectly normally, and the edible parts are still white and yellow. Apparently, I don't eat hard-boiled eggs.

The eggs are cooked in the steaming plant next to this fumarole further up the hill. It can be visited via a trail through some less stable ground. If I remember correctly, this trail is only open at certain times for a limited number of people at a time. Although it's only 300 metres from the main part of Ôwakudani, half a dozen shelters have been installed in case of emergency (one such concrete structure can be seen behind the steaming plant).

But how do the eggs get up there if the trail isn't always open? With their own lovely little ropeway! White eggs go up, black eggs come down, ready to be served in the restaurants!

[pix4japan]

Hell Valley (Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan)

Until 1873, this area was known as Hell Valley or the Great Hell due to the constant spewing of sulfuric gasses that kill off plant life and paint the reddish brown earth with a tinge of yellow or lime-green.

However, prior to a visit to the site by Emperor Meiji, who had an imperial retreat nearby, the name was changed to Owakudani (boiling water valley) out of sensitivities to the emperor.

Formed over 3,000 years ago, this active volcanic zone draws tourists by the busload and has a ropeway that carries visitors from the shores of nearby Lake Ashi (Ashinoko) over the steaming vents up to the top of the lava dome that formed between 80,000 and 130,000 years ago.

These days, the hot springs and steam are used to slowly boil eggs that are sold at souvenir stands throughout the Hakone area. The hot spring waters are also piped further down into the valley for use by local hot spring resorts.  

Fujifilm X100V (23 mm) with 5% diffusion filter ISO 250 for 1/250 sec. at ƒ/2.0 Provia/Standard film simulation

[shirasuphoto]

No.418　東京四景　終わる-東急世田谷線