#ichō

[kristkx]

Red thread of fate - a common belief in China and East Asia, about the connection of two people. The Chinese name is 紅線. The Japanese is 運命の赤い糸 (unmei no akai ichō).

According to this belief, a bound man and woman have an invisible red thread appearing on their ankles, binding them together.

This thread is not hindered by circumstances, time or distance.

So I made Krystal's red ribbons, and Leo tied them to his katanas in the future to remember Krystal and their bond.

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Красная нить судьбы — распространенное в Китае и Восточной Азии поверье, о связи двух людей. Китайское название — 紅線. Японское — 運命の赤い糸 (унмэй но акай ито).

Согласно этому поверью, у связанных между собой мужчины и женщины, на щиколотках появляется невидимая красная нить, связывающая их вместе.

Для этой нити не являются преградой обстоятельства, время или расстояния

Поэтому я сделала у Кристал красные ленточки, а Лео в будущем привязал их к своим катанам, чтобы помнить о Кристал и их связь.

[tamatarkha]

Kasshiki

"The mask shows a youth of between 12 and 17 years of age, very sweet with a feminine attraction seen in the bangs and curl of the lips and dimples in the cheeks. The eyes are typical of young men's masks with slightly rounded pupils and the eyebrows rise up pertly. Two styles of bangs, either straight across the forehead (Ōkasshiki such as the Muromachi period example in the Hōshō collection designated an Important Cultural Property), or flaring out like a ginko leaf (Ichō kasshiki, such as the Muromachi period mask owned by the Kanze school), characterize two styles of Kasshiki mask. The latter are further classified by size. Today the three types are known as "large," "medium," and "small," which is intended to suggest gradations of age of the role as well. Three plays use Kasshiki masks: Jinen Koji, Togan Koji, and Kagetsu. In all three the main actor, as lay priest or temple boy, performs a dance while beating a drum tied to his waist."

Japanese Performing Arts Resource Center

[901allons-y]

There is a yokai called Bake ichō no sei, the spirit of the Ginkgo. All his body is bright yellow, like the Ginko's leaves in autumn.

There is a belief that if you plant it in private property is really bad luck and that lasts for a few generations. It's reserved to nature and sacred places.

(Image credit: Mathew Mayer)

A 1400-year-old Ginkgo tree found within the walls of the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple, in the Zhongnan Mountains region of China.

[nobbykun]

Artist - デューク･エイセス (Duke Aces) Song - 銀杏並木 (大阪) (Ichō Namiki [Ōsaka]) [Eng. "Row Of Ginkgo Trees (Osaka)"] Release Date - February 1966

Listen 🎶

https://rumble.com/v2lee8m-duke-aces-icho-namiki-osaka.html

My blog: Showa Music Library https://nobbykun.tumblr.com/

[mrmaplematt]

I decided to start adding a lot more pics from my plant travels on here too. Meiji Jingu Gaien (明治神宮外苑) in Tokyo #mrmapletravel #mrmapleinjapan #mrmaple #ginkgo #ginkgotree #meijijingugaien #ginkgoalley #Ichō #icho #shinjuku #shinjukutokyo #planttravel #travel (at Meijijingu Gaien) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2toV_QgxUA/?igshid=5zbmcd41h7pl

[mia-japanese-korean]

Actor Iwai Tojaku I as Shirai Gonpachi, Utagawa Kunisada, c. 1833, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

round mirror with yellow rim and black handle contains figure depicted from chest up in red garment with right hand holding the grip of a sword with a dragonfly motif; figure gazes to his right and is set against blue background with radiating black lines; Japanese characters to left and right of figure's shoulders; circular mark with characters to left of aforementioned characters; mirror hovers above offset rectangle containing a smaller, blue offset rectangle with Japanese characters; red cartouche with gold frame floats in BLC and contains Japanese characters; square mark with Japanese characters at BLC Related to the play "Mitsu ichō gozonji no Edo-zome" 三銀杏御存地染, performed at the Nakamura Theater, 1833, fifth month. Utagawa Kunisada’s bust portraits from the 1820s and 1830s typically show actors against a plain background accompanied by poems composed by the portrayed actors. Here, the portrait is fan shaped, allowing the image to be cut out and affixed to an actual fan. This series is also an early example of product placement, as a packet of Bien Senjokō face powder appears at the bottom of each print. It seems that the prints were delivered together with the powder or that the producer of the powder paid for some of the production costs of the print. Size: 14 1/2 × 10 1/8 in. (36.83 × 25.72 cm) (sheet, vertical ōban) Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/121358/

[askaceattorney]

(Song in Letter)

Dear marshmallowwithabs,

That doesn’t sound so scary to me.  I suppose it might if I heard a biwa bokuboku playing along with it, or Bake ichō no sei striking a gong in rhythm.  For me, it all depends on context.

-Jinxie Tenma

[missmyloko]

November 14th, 2018: Shino (紫乃) of Fukushima (福嶋) in Gion Kobu has changed to sakkō ahead of her November 21st erikae! She has actually been wearing the style for almost a week now, but not many pictures have surfaced until now. Although slightly hard to see, her kanzashi features a wire Silver Crane with a Gold Tortoise, which is a popular combination that symbolizes harmony and longevity. Along with her kimono that features Ume (梅 - Plum Blossoms) and Take (竹 - Bamboo), which represent new beginnings, her outfit is a wonderful pairing for a bright future! To fully bring out the motifs of the season, her obi features Ichō (銀杏 - Ginkgo Leaves) and her maezashi is a silver leaf with a jade center ^^ Image is courtesy of Miburo. 

[lowcountry-gothic]

Bake ichō no sei, by Matthew Meyer.

化け銀杏の精 ばけいちょうのせい

Translation: monster ginkgo spirit Alternate names: bake ichō no rei, ichō no bakemono Habitat: ginkgo trees Diet: none

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[ginnyh]

พวกเขาสวมชุดกิโมโนสีดำที่ขาดรุ่งริ่งและถือฆ้องเล็กๆ เบค อิโช โนะ เซอิ Bake ichō no sei ปรากฏขึ้นใกล้ต้นแปะก๊วยเก่า ๆ และตีตะลุมพุก ไม่ทราบว่ามีจุดประสงค์อื่นนอกเหนือจากการท��ให้ผู้ที่ได้ยินพวกเขารู้สึกแปลกหรือตกใจ เบค อิโช โนะ เซอิ Bake ichō no sei ถูกวาดขึ้นครั้งแรกในม้วนหนังสือโยไคในศตวรรษที่ 18 โดย Yosa Buson

[jussoyouknow2]

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[stumpyjoepete]

What do you know, my followers do more research than me :) h/t @youzicha​:

it does not seem like Kaempfer using a g in his transcription is due to a misreading, because it was written like that in his original notes from Japan. (And he habitually wrote y as ÿ, so it would be hard to confuse them.) It’s a bit unclear where the g comes from, but Nagata et al. suggest that it might reflect some feature of the medieval Nagasaki dialect spoken by Genemon, and possibly some kind of j/g merger in the Northern German dialect spoken by Kaempfer.

I’m skeptical that it was a result of a systematic difference in either Kaempfer’s or Genemon’s speech, since if you re-read the article you mention, you’ll see he never makes a similar mistake in any other words. Think he just fucked up when he was taking notes.

Also, following from youzicha’s other notes and working through wiktionary:

银 and 杏 do have the readings “gin” and “kyō”, among their several on-readings.

Those were used in the manuscripts which Kaempfer was translating.

However, the modern on-reading of 银杏 is ginnan. I don’t have any further information on the timelines or anything.

A much more common name for the tree in Japanese is “ichō”. This is sometime written with the kanji 银杏, but it actually derives from the on-readings of a different Chinese word (鴨脚 = yājiǎo = duck feet) which referred to the shape of the leaves [edit: not from the on readings, but it is derived from this word]

Silvered Almonds - Getting to “Ginkgo”

In the last 2 months, I think I’ve only been more than a mile away from my apartment a grand total of one time. The only thing I have to get me out of the house, besides weekly grocery shopping, is taking walks. So I’ve been taking a lot of walks. I think I went on five walks yesterday, and I still felt kind of stir crazy.

I was walking past a ginkgo tree in the neighborhood this morning and was admiring its leaves. The trees are very pretty, except, of course, for the time of year when they drop their fruit on the sidewalks, and it rots, and it smells horrific, and it sticks on your shoes, and it leaves this weird salt-like crusty residue as it dries. It turns out you can harvest them and eat them, but the flesh is toxic, handling them can cause your hands to “molt”, the nuts taste like cheese, and eating too many of them will poison you. Truly a superfood.

While I was contemplating the deep mysteries of why someone would voluntarily plant one of these trees in their yard, I started wondering about the name:

I vaguely remembered that they’re called silver-something-or-others in Chinese (银 = yín = silver).

Ginza, the neighborhood in Tokyo, is written 銀座, so I’m assuming that the on-reading of 銀 is “gin”. So this is probably the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word.

Looked it up, and it’s 银杏 = yínxìng = silver apricot/almond[1]. I guess some varieties have relatively white fruit (the ones in my neighborhood are pretty orange).

So what is the on-reading of 杏? How’d it end up like “ko” or whatever?

It’s kyō. The x->k makes more sense, seeing that it’s often reconstructed as a voiced velar fricative in Middle Chinese. And final -ngs get dropped in Japanese and correspond to lengthened vowels.

So, there you have it. 银杏 is gin-kyō in Japanese. And English speakers just simplified that to “ginko”, and Bob’s your uncle. Quick sanity check on Wikipedia:

N-K-G? Is that honestly how someone decided to spell it? This is like fuchsia in terms of implausibly idiosyncratic spelling. There’s got to be some sort of explanation[2] of how it got that way…

So, there you have it. What we would transliterate today as “ginkyō”, this German guy would have transliterated as “ginkjo”, because that’s just how Germans feel about j’s. But he made a typo, and now we all have to live with it.

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[beingjellybeans]

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[mia-japanese-korean]

Actor Matsumoto Kōshirō V as Banzui Chōbei, Utagawa Kunisada, c. 1833, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

round mirror with green rim and black handle contains figure depicted from chest up with right hand clutching robe; figure gazes to his right and wears a blue and white robe with a red and white fabric swath slung over his right shoulder; figure set against pink background with radiating rust-colored lines; Japanese characters to left of figure's shoulder; red cartouche with gold frame and blue ends floats in BLC and contains Japanese characters; mirror hovers above offset rectangle containing a smaller, blue offset rectangle with Japanese characters; circular and rectangular marks with characters in BRC Related to the plav "Mitsu ichō gozonji no Edo-zome" 三銀杏御存地染, performed at the Nakamura Theater, 1833, fifth month. Utagawa Kunisada’s bust portraits from the 1820s and 1830s typically show actors against a plain background accompanied by poems composed by the portrayed actors. Here, the portrait is fan shaped, allowing the image to be cut out and affixed to an actual fan. This series is also an early example of product placement, as a packet of Bien Senjokō face powder appears at the bottom of each print. It seems that the prints were delivered together with the powder or that the producer of the powder paid for some of the production costs of the print. Size: 14 1/8 × 10 1/8 in. (35.88 × 25.72 cm) (sheet, vertical ōban) Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/121186/

[missmyloko]

Kanzashi of The Month: November - Colored Leaves

An entire month that doesn’t focus on flowers!? You bet! But who needs flowers when you have almost every color of the rainbow? As always, all kanzashi are from Kazurasei.

Image courtesy of Kazurasei.

Momiji (紅葉) - Colored Maple Leaves

Ichō (銀杏) - Ginkgo Leaves

Matsuba (松葉) - Pine Needles

The second most popular month for tourism in Kyoto is November, and it’s edging closer to April’s haul each year. Before rebirth in the spring there must be death in the fall, and the millions of trees that encompass Kyoto give a show more colorful than fireworks in the process. Every temple becomes a treasure trove of colors in the form of changing leaves and become venerable a haven for photographers. The term for autumn, Aki (秋), is made up of the characters for “Tree” (禾) and “Fire” (火), which directly eludes to the colorful leaves!

The most popular autumn leaf to observe by far is the maple leaf. The Japanese variety of maple trees, Acer palmatum, which encompasses hundreds of different species, are popular around the world for their bold colors, so it’s only natural that they’re also popular in their native country. As discussed before, maple leaves can be known by two different names in Japanese depending on their color. Regular green maple leaves are known as Kaede (楓), whereas colored maple leaves, defined as any that have changed color, even slightly, are known as Momiji (紅葉), which literally means “Red Leaf.” Momiji can also be used as a blanket term to describe all autumn leaves, but it has since become synonymous with the maple leaf.

Image courtesy of Kazurasei.

The second most popular tree to observe in the autumn is the Ginkgo or Maidenhair Tree. Its leaves are prized in the karyukai due to its shape that closely resembles a folding fan. The graceful leaves also tend to flutter when they fall, which are said to resemble the fluttering of a fan in an alluring dance. Unlike the maple leaves, ginkgo leaves are made from rounded tsumami petals, which provide a beautiful contrast to the maple leaves’ pointed leafs. Unlike shidare from almost every other month, the “petals” for November are actually made like the leaves and feature pointed shapes. They’re meant to mimic individual leaf points instead of petals, so they look very sharp, literally!

Image courtesy of Kazurasei.

Keeping on the topic of leaves, it may seem a bit odd that pine needles are a common feature during the month, but their status is viewed as that of the leaf of an evergreen. The two kanji that make up “Pine Needle” in Japanese literally mean “Pine Leaf,” so the beautiful green needles are often added to maple and ginkgo leaves as a bit of an accent. They also serve a very important artistic function! The small, golden bases that are added to the needles help to attract the eye first. Then the pine needles, which are made from wrapping very thin, shiny threads around sticks, are often set at angles to provide movement for the eye to travel around the kanzashi. 

Image courtesy of Risha Soul. 

Leaves are extremely versatile as maiko can wear motifs that showcase the full spectrum of colors available for the month, which can range from green to yellow to orange or red and sometimes even brown! It’s rare to see a leaf that only has one or two colors, so kanzashi fans are well served during this time, many of which are the maiko themselves!

Like other full motif shidare, November’s leaves can be worn by junior and senior maiko alike. It’s often used as a bridge between the two seniorities, so it’s commonly seen being worn by junior maiko who are about to become senior, like Katsuhina (佳つ雛) of Odamoto (小田本) in Gion Kobu (above). The swaying leaves on this full motif shidare are as elegant as the wind blowing gently through the trees, so it’s the perfect way to show off autumn’s versatile colors!

Image courtesy of Onihide.

Even though they’re leaves and not blooms, November’s various leaves still follow the rules of juniors and seniors when it comes to sizes. Senior maiko, like Kanoka (叶果) of Kanoya (叶家) in Gion Higashi (above) wear one or three of a motif to make a bold statement and show off their impending transition into adulthood. As the tips of a ginkgo leaf are round they are often placed in a circular formation, both to make the entire motif look like a cute circle, but also because it resembles a pin wheel! This reminds us that even the most senior maiko are still children, but that this time is shortly coming to an end, just like the lives of the leaves. 

Image courtesy of Japanexperterna.

In the case of junior maiko, the various leaf kanzashi are the ultimate rainbow that draw attention to them immediately and keep that sight burned into the minds of those who behold them! The bells notify you that they’re close, the shidare brings your eye up, and the main cluster explodes into an array of hues you never thought were possible, like with Mamefuji (まめ藤) of Tama (多麻) in Gion Kobu (above). You may have noticed that a few of the kanzashi do have small flower added to them, and this isn’t too uncommon. The flowers are small Chrysanthemums, which were the main motif for October and are a prominent autumn flower. However, the chrysanthemums are not meant to compete with the leaves in November, but rather to offer a soft palette to the otherwise strong colors of the leaves ^^