#Jizo

[maruhi]

jizo おじぞうさま

[itsmarjudgelove]

Jizō (地蔵), or more respectfully referred to as Ojizō-sama, one of the most loved of all Japanese divinities. His statues are a common sight, especially by roadsides and in graveyards at temples.

[chitaka45]

京都　正伝寺　🌸さつき🌸

kyoto shodenji temple 🌸satsuki🌸

[zegalba]

Hideaki Kawashima: Jizo (2006)

[batcrooks]

a line-up of the "main characters" of the Museum Squad! Or the Museum Friends. Or the Museum Scouts? I don't know what they're called but they're a bunch of art history objects that live in a Museum and they have art history adventures!!! in the group pic from left to right: Bastet, Haniwa, Dogū, Minoan Snake Priestess, Jizō, and Colima Dog. Most of them are just named after what they are, but I need to name the minoan snake priestess I think. Maybe just Minoa? Her snakes are definitely Lefty and Righty

[koshigurajumy]

Jumy-M Jizo staring out to sea / 海を見つめる地蔵

[ezralva]

So Yuuji's mudra is like Jizo Boddhisatva then his red hoodie around his neck...isn't it like the red bib on Jizo statues?! Jizo Boddhisattva came to rescue the children piling up stones at Sai no Kawara at the banks of Sanzu River. Jizo boddhisattva also in charge to hold memorial service for unborn babies! Help them crossing the river! The bad children. You know what this means??

Gege-sen....my head is spinning....

[saigyouko]

Narumi Yatadera

[gallusrostromegalus]

Mayuri broke out of hell and his sword is his parole officer??? I need elaboration immediately, I have such a morbid fascination with Mayuri he's my horrifying little torture meow meow

So some important things about Hell in AEIWAM:

I haven't read any of Kubo's newer work and I do not have plans to unless someone can vouch that it's really, really cool

They REALLY don't want anyone to stay there, because Hell is functionally Rehab.

See, the function of Hell in AEIWAM is to act as a sort of repair shop for damaged souls- souls that harm others don't produce as much energy when they move from one plane to another, and prevent other souls from completing their cycles and that's bad for The Life Machine, so it's in The Machine's interest that those harmful souls Stop That ASAP. So in hell, a Soul that has say, done a bunch of murder is meticulously taken apart and examined by Demons, who figure out Why He Did That, and then come up with a treatment program to Make Sure He Doesn't Do That Next Time. Sometimes it's therapy, sometimes it's hard labor to undo the spiritual pollution you caused, sometimes they have to uh. vivisect a soul and remove an unhelpful segment of soul. There's no BAD souls or soul fragments, according to the Demons of Hell- what's dangerous egotism in one person is a healthy level of self-esteem in another person and you just gotta... swap the spiritual organs, as it were. The demons really, really want you to get better!

3. They also don't want you to stick around because Hell has a bit of an overpopulation problem.

See, when the Four-to-Five Noble houses dismembered the Soul King and used parts of his body to black off the spirit world according to political preference rather than any kind of functionality, they tried to block off Hell entirely, perhaps to evade the fate that awaited them.

But they fucked up, and now the only part of Hell that's Blocked is THE EXIT, and it's blocked by God's Divine Ass :/. Now, there is, technically, An Exit built in, as it were, but it's very small compared to the original exit, and now there is a Queue To Get Out.

This has created MANY problems for Hell- The Demons have a running Metric for "Does this soul REALLY need to go to rehab?"*, and even with it stripped down to the most generous assumptions of "this was probably more circumstances than your fault" and most limited definitions of "Harm" and "Danger", there's still a steady stream of souls entering Hell, and it's larger than the stream escaping out. So now the majority population of Hell is Perfectly Fine people who completed their Rehab, but can't leave because the airport is closed.

*The reason soul society doesn't attempt to reunite people in the afterlife is that they actually cannot- who goes where after death is the provenance of Hell, and shinigami don't have any input on the process, save to occasionally herd someone back into the afterlife queue via Konsho.

It's getting. Crowded.

It's getting crowded to the point that Hell is actually starting to Burst at the seams- which is a solution and a problem- these crack represent the dimension literally unravelling, but it's also an opportunity for The Ruler Of Hell to stabilize those cracks and make new exits and move a bit more of that Queue along.

It's during one of these stabilization projects that Mayuri makes his escape.

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The thing is. Mayuri wasn't even in that much trouble! He'd been the Medieval Japanese equivalent of a Fry Cook in life and uh. Poisoned a few people trying out new recpies, mostly involving novel culinary mushrooms. His fault, if you had to pick the main one, was an overabundance of curiousity relative to his sense of caution and a minor problem of not being able to imagine the interiority of others. None of those are EVIL. Dangerous, sure! But entirely fixable! and Mayuri had been quite young when he died because he had gotten a little too curious and tried his latest recipe out himself.

So Mayuri had been assigned to Jizo. In Real Life, Jizo is a pretty cool religious figure- he's the Bohdisattva who's whole thing is that absolutely no-one is incapable of becoming a better person, and refused to achieve Nirvana until all the hells are empty. He's the last guy out when the universe ends, and the particular patron of dead children and orphans. He is associated with caterpillar imagery because he wears a long cloak that all the lost souls of children can take shelter under, and when they all trail out behind him, it looks a bit like he's a centaur with a caterpillar body from all the little legs sticking out from under him.

...Which is why Mayuri's Zanpaktou looks like that.

Jizo seems like a WEIRD spirit to be hanging out with Mayuri imho, unless Jizo was originally Mayuri's Guardian/therapist/parole officer, and Mayuri did something shitty.

I think Mayuri HAD been making a lot of progress in terms of "the scientific process is a PROCESS for a reason" and "Other beings have feelings too" and "Harming others is Bad", and he's a clever lad who could be doing a lot of good if pointed in the right direction, so Jizo advocated for Mayuri to be put on one of the Hell-Crack stabilization teams to give him a good outlet for his restless mind.

Unfortunately for Jizo, he miscalculated how much progress mayuri had actually made vs his desire to not go to rehab, and Mayuri pulled some sort of stunt that bound Jizo to a sword like an Asauchi, and absconded with him to the Spirit world through the crack, promptly got arrested for More Science Crimes in spirit world, got sent to the Maggots Nest, and eventually caught the attention of Urahara, who saw the Chemistry Brilliance of Mayuri and exactly NONE of the Red Flags.

As it stands Mayuri is... Sort-of the captain of the 12th division.

Sure, on paper he's The Captain, he gets to wear the Haori and has to go to the meetings, but R&D is only a fraction of what the 12th actually does- rememer, Urahara is the guy that STARTED Research and Development. Before that, I think the 12th division was 100% devoted with being the gotei-13's SUPPLIER- food, uniforms, medicine manufacture, weapons repair, gigai, soul candy, maps, communicators- if you got it for work, it was made in the 12th division.

I think Mayuri is aware of maybe 12% of what his division actually does, because the people who are in charge of manufacture were around before Urahara, took one look at that man and went "...Nah" and started quietly Not Telling Him About Things. When Mayuri took over, they went "Absolutely Not" and have been engaged in a century-long farce to prevent the captain of the 12th from knowing what his division actually does. Fortunately for them, it's extremely easy to lie to Mayuri. He's a suspicious bastard, but he LOVES good news, especially the kind of news that is good because it means he doesn't have to go to another boring-ass meeting. So things are JUST FINE down in manufacture, your latest improvements were TOTALLY IMPLEMENTED and are going GREAT. Everyone remarks on how much better the MREs are since we started adding live beetles to them Sir. Your Genius is Much Praised- Whoops Is That The Time? Gotta Go- the science never stops!

He's going to run into a bit of a stumbling block in Las Noches though. Not Sayzel, though Sayzel doesn't help. He's going to run into the consequences of a Former Experiment that are REAL FUCKIN' MAD AT HIM. No, not Uryuu, though Uryuu is FAR FROM PLEASED. Mayuri is going to have to face the consequences of a much worse experiment- one based on the procedures of disassembling and reassembling souls he learned while he was in Hell. Mayuri will have to face The Wrath Of Kon

[crazyfox-archives]

A stone image of Jizō Bodhisattva (地蔵菩薩) specifically known as Nasako Jizō (名迫地蔵) still keeping watch over the abandoned site of a former kindergarten on Mount Kōya (高野山) in Wakayama Prefecture (before the image's recent restoration and move to a new location)

Una imagen de piedra del Bodhisattva Jizō (地蔵菩薩), específicamente conocido como Nasako Jizō (名迫地蔵), aún vigila el sitio abandonado de un antiguo jardín de infantes en el monte Kōya (高野山) en la prefectura de Wakayama (antes de la reciente restauración de la imagen y su traslado a un nueva ubicacion)

Photo by 高野山 青巖寺@南山坊 [Kōyasan Seiganji@Nanzanbō], posted June 24, 2024

[toxictaicho]

Found baby monk statue for 0.50€, made him bib and now it's Jizo.

Would like to put him outdoors, but idk if material would survive frost 🤔

[bonguri]

20241005 Yakachigawa 4 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: 観音様の周りも彼岸花。 Photo taken at Yakachi river, Handa city, Aichi pref.

[yoga-onion]

- A message from 23 nights temple -

“All times, you can attain victory by doing, not by thinking. On other occasions, you can attain victory by thinking, not by doing.”

-二十三夜堂からのメッセージ-

”常に、考えるのではなく、実行することによって勝利を得ることができる。また、あるときは、実行するのではなく、考えることによって、勝利を得ることができる。”

[chitaka45]

京都　妙心寺　大雄院　🌸つつじ🌸

kyoto myoshinjl daiouin temple

[number1caesarclownhater]

FINISHED MAYURIS PART

alright now its time to uhh sketch caesar clown and smiley since mayuris side is finished WOOO, im so proud of this oml 😭 i apologize if im gonna post too much for a few days im just tryna make up for my weeks of inactivity!!

man im gona suffer draiwng caesars gas cloak, iM SO BAD AT ITTT

[megusketches]

Fishing on his little island~