#ekiden

[auzenismo]

Ekiden

[freshthoughts2020]

[squaringthacircle]

Hakone ekiden

[falseandrealultravival]

Marathon and Japanese people (Essay)

Pervert: "Idaten's logo"

In 2019, a work called ``Idaten=The god with a great run'' was created for the NHK Taiga drama, which deals with major events in Japanese history. This film depicts the acceptance of the marathon in Japan and its evolution, with a close-up look at the achievements of individual runners and the efforts of the politicians who support them.

However, although our family had been watching taiga dramas up until then, we didn't really think of the marathon as a big event, so we stopped watching taiga dramas after this one. In my house, taiga dramas have disappeared.

Japanese people's love of sports is on par with any other ethnic group. All sports are accepted, but marathons seem to especially strike a chord with Japanese people. Japanese people love the monotonous and boring sport of simply running a long distance of 42.195 km. So why is this so?

I think Japanese people ``add up the drama of their impossible lives'' about marathons. Marathons probably stimulate the stoic nature of Japanese people and awaken their imaginations.

Moreover, the Japanese created a derivative event of the marathon called ``ekiden,'' a relay race that connects sections. In particular, the ``Hakone Ekiden'' held during New Year's Day, in which university students run on a grueling course full of mountains and valleys, is deeply popular among Japanese people who ``see the drama of life'' in races. Although I don't watch such fictional dramas.

　Rei Morishita

マラソンと日本人

２０１９年、日本の歴史の大イベントを扱うNHK大河ドラマで「いだてん」という作品が作られた。日本におけるマラソンの受容とその変遷を描いたものだが、個々のランナーの活躍と、それを後押しする政治家の奮闘がクローズアップされていた。

　しかし、我が家ではそれまで大河ドラマを見ていたが、マラソンが大イベントとはとても思えず、この作品以降の大河ドラマは見なくなった。我が家では、大河ドラマは消滅したのだ。

　日本人のスポーツ好きは、他のどの民族にもひけをとらない。どんなスポーツも受容されるが、マラソンはとくに日本人の心の琴線に触れるようだ。４２．１９５ｋｍという��距離を、た��走るだけの単調で退屈な競技を、日本人は愛するのである。ではなぜそうなのだろう？

思うに日本人はマラソンに、「ありもしない人生のドラマを重ねる」のだろう。マラソンは、ストイックな性質をもつ日本人を刺激し、想像力を喚起するのだろう。

　日本人は、その上、「駅伝」という区間をつなぐリレーレースという、マラソンの派生競技を創造した。とくに正月に行われる「箱根駅伝」は、山あり谷ありの過酷なコースで大学生たちが走るのだが、これがレースに「人生のドラマを見る」日本人には根強い人気がある。そんな架空のドラマ、私は見ないけれども。

[ayanos-pl]

あいにくの雨でしたが、わりといい感じの写真が撮れました。両足とも地面についてない写真が好きです。箱根駅伝2024

[grrl-beetle]

Nike Air Streak Ekiden

[robustcornhusk]

i've never seen someone drop the tasuki before

[bananaflip]

A scene from the 2022 Hakone Ekiden! I was stoked to see it in person and the energy was amazing

[yoga-onion]

Perfect Days 

A film I watched between New Year's Eve and New Year's Day was Wim Wenders “Parfect Days (’23)”. A story with no beginning and no end, with timeless images and music that made two or three rounds, I was unintentionally living in the film.

The film depicts the analogue daily life of a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo, but before you know it, your heart is filled with ‘Oh, I know this person’ or some other very ordinary daily routine that emerges as a special scenary.

The film is set in downtown Tokyo, Asakusa, around Sumida and Shibuya wards, all purely tourist destinations, but this is the traditional Tokyo, the town of modest people in the Edo period. So both outsiders and insiders can fully identify with it.

It quietly depicts the most powerful strengths of the weak. Despite being in the unspoken battlefield of everyday life, he transcends it. He does not miss the sunlight through the trees or the joy. He never fights, and yet he lives unaffectedly, without giving in: ‘That's the kind of person I want to be’. It is reminding us of Kenji's masterpiece: ‘Against the rain, against the wind... never greedy, never angry, always quietly smiling...’

Am I the only one who saw true ‘Zen ideology’ and ‘ Emptiness’ in such a character?

Is Mr Wenders a reincarnation of Saigyo or Basho?

While I was thinking about this and that, the TV went on to the Hakone Ekiden marathon, a New Year's tradition, with a spectacular view of Mt Fuji and a sky reminiscent of Hokusai's ukiyo-e prints, and thought to myself that New Year in Japan is jolly good.

I had truly ‘Perfect Days’.

パーフェクト・デイズ

大晦日から元日にかけて、わたしが観たお正月映画は、ヴィム・ヴェンダース監督の『Parfect Days (‘23)』だ。始まりも終わりもないストーリー、タイムレスな映像と音楽に２周、３周しているうちに、思わず映画の中に住んでいた。

東京の公衆トイレ清���員のアナログな日常を描いた作品で、「あ、こういう人知ってる」とか、ごく普通のあるあるの日常が、特別なイメージになって浮き出され、いつの間にか胸が一杯になっている。

���画の舞台は東京の下町、浅草、墨田区、渋谷区といった純粋な観光地だが、これこそが真の東京であり、江戸庶民の町である。だから、外の人間も内の人間も十分に共感できる。

弱者の最強なストレングスを静かに浮き彫りにする。日常という暗黙の戦場の中にいるにもかかわらず、彼はそれを超越している。決して戦わず、尚も屈することなく、淡々と生きている、「サウイフモノニ ワタシハナリタイ」。「雨ニモマケズ　風ニモマケズ…慾ハナク　決シテ瞋ラズ　イツモシヅカニワラッテヰル…」あの賢治の名作すら思わせる。

そんな人物像に真の「禅の思想」「空」を見たのは、わたしだけだろうか？

ヴェンダースさんはもしや、西行、または芭蕉の転生なのでしょうか？

そんなことをあれこれ考えていたら、テレビは正月恒例の箱根駅伝をを映し出していた。富士山の絶景と北斎の浮世絵を思わせる空を見て、日本のお正月はいいなあ、と。

まさに「パーフェクト・デイズ」だった。

[ruanbaijie]

THE HAKONE EKIDEN 箱根駅伝 [insp]

[careysattheonsenagain]

And an audiobook!

[syncopatedid]

第101 回箱根駅伝　

Late to post but yes it is I at Hakone Ekiden (again!) Someone convinced me while the 100th marks the milestone of a great tradition, 101st is the start of new one, so here I am running on YOLO one more time! And since I did Otemachi last year, I thought I'd aim for the other end point this year up at Hakone.

Ngl, for all the fanfare Otemachi gets since it's the real finish line, the fanfare at Lake Ashinoko is more chill by comparison but is not to be sniffed at, especially the post event atmosphere! Otemachi may have its crayola-sized crowds but there seems to be more activities going on at Ashinoko aside from just hanging around waiting for the runners to arrive. Also I got lucky again and landed a good spot to camp out for pictures! I think if you asked me to choose again, I'd likely return to this one more than Otemachi. Huh, how's that for personal revelation!

Today's king of the mountain will send off tomorrow's section 6 starter! Time for Yuki's section runners to shine tomorrow!

P.s: He may not be the first to cross the line but this fellow is definitely the fan crowd favourite! Shinsaku Kudo of Waseda university, with the nickname "Yama no Tantei" (Mountain Detective)! You can read all about him here!

[yarrayora]

KHR x SERVAMP

Tsuna is not great at defending himself from bullies. Not for the lack of skills but because he is used to the idea that he can't fight back. Reborn is planning to fix that. Somehow he manages to rope Tsuna into becoming an errand boy for the track and field club. They aren't the most violent of the bunch, but having someone to order around make their superiority complex rises a bunch.

And then they takes out their anger on Tsuna when they lose the Ekiden Championship in Tokyo. Reborn tells himself that this is necessary, that he can't pull the trigger just yet. He contacts Tsuna through the communication (slash tracking) device he sewed into his student's uniform, telling him that if Tsuna doesn't start fighting back he will be forced to kill those students who dare to lay a hand on the future Decimo.

But before Tsuna can make up his mind, someone else already throws a punch. "What the HELL are you guys doing?!"

And that's how Tsuna's first meeting with the Eve of Sloth and future executive of the Millefiore goes.

(The first person to save Tsuna just because he needs help)

[squaringthacircle]

[sports-character-tournament]

Round 1

Peso (Octonauts) vs Haiji Kiyose (Run with the Wind)

Peso

Sport: he conpetes in the penguin version of the triathlon

Appearance: Small penguin

Propaganda: He's a nurse who's never done sport before but his little brother believes in him so hard that he has to try, he does a whole training montage. When he competes he gets mocked the whole time by the big arrogant fan favourite but when he has the chance to win the bully gets hurt and trapped underwater and his nurse instincts win out so Peso goes back to help him and they get joint first. Very sweet guy, very clumsy, very funny I love him

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Haiji Kiyose

Sport: Track

Appearance: Hair color: Brown Eye color: Brown Height: 170 cm Nationality: Japanese

Propaganda: Wanting to participate in in Hakone Ekiden, a famous Japanese University relay marathon that has runners run 219 km over two days, Haiji spends his university years gathering a ten man team. Despite his injury from his school days and the fact that his team isn't the most athletic (yet), he doesn't give up! He works hard so that he and his team can qualify for Hakone Ekiden!

[rosecaffelatte]

“Listen to your minds and bodies and polish carefully,” Haiji said and so everybody did, including Yuki who once was so opposed to participating in the Hakone Ekiden relay race.

He was so deep in thought that he doesn’t notice his phone ringing.

However, we see who’s calling.

母親 or haha oya aka his mother but there’s more behind that word.

haha oya literally translated means “mother-parent,” which has a very scientific connotation. You can refer to your mother as haha oya when you’re talking about her, but the same goes for mothers of animals, yeah... It’s like calling your mother the “child birther” haha

So, saving your mom under that name on your phone already shows to others who might catch a glimpse of your phone the cold, distant, and not-so-good relationship you have with your mom.

I don’t recall how or if Yuki addressed his mom later in the episode but if he didn’t, my guess is that he’d call her okaa-sama, the title that shows the most respect but also the biggest distance between mom and kid.