#takayasu

[realvsable]

When I say I’m back on my bullshit

This is what I mean

[sports-outsized]

[artschoolglasses]

TAKAYASUUU!!🖤

Very, very cool birthday gift from the family. For those unfamiliar with sumo, the rikishi (sumo wrestlers) will sign autograph cards with a handprint. This is the handprint of my favourite, Takayasu. If anyone is curious as to how these are done, HERE is a video of several rikishi having a contest to see who is the fastest. Takayasu is at the end, around the 15 minute mark.

(Ignore the fact that it got bent in the mail 🥲😭)

[fancypantsrecords]

Various Artists - Bayonetta Original Soundtrack | Wayô Records | 2023 | "Lollipop" Purple with White Swirl + Pink with Black Splatter + Yellow with White Swirl + Green with Black Swirl

[mikyapixie]

Today marks 15 YEARS since Bayonetta first ever released!!!

Happy Anniversary to you Badass Umbra Witches out there!!!❤️❤️

[amethysts-angel214]

So no one ever thought to tell me that these two share the same VA?

[plateauofmemories]

Commentator: And Tobizaru has fallen into the first row

Me: that man is in at least the third row jiminy cricket. Flying monkey indeed

[thethcministry]

[sports-outsized]

[artschoolglasses]

Sumo Kimarite (Winning Techniques)

Feat. Takayasu vs. Hoshoryu

Komatasukui - A kimarite in which the attacker attempts to throw his opponent and, when the opponent steps forward to defend himself, the attacker grabs his leg, near the thigh, and pulls upward driving the opponent over backwards.

[august-sysex]

ueda takayasu - die karpfen streamer (2021)

[czigonas]

fuck I am so mad about Ura's day 6 fight that I'm actually going to scream into the void about it. that gyoji made a terrible call and needs a reprimand. a mistake that cost a fair fight? horrible.

and yeah, I am biased towards Ura but it's not hard to see why. he took it like a champ even though he lost unfairly. smiled and bowed respectfully but man you can see that smile was fucking strained.

pleased Takakeisho lost, though. I just don't see him as a good yokozuna (also, then they'd have no ozeki? the whole of sanyaku is a mess right now). you can argue he's not as bad as Asanoyama (personality-wise) but it's just not the energy you want to see at the top level. just because someone was a poor sport before doesn't mean you should promote another.

[amethysts-angel214]

So I found the Twitter account of Stain's VA (Usui Takayasu (うすいたかやす)) last night

@/huskygenta

[dailydemonspotlight]

Kinmamon - Day 65

Race: Enigma

Alignment: Light-Neutral

July 5th, 2024

Among the scores of demons in the SMT series, the Enigma race is one of the most curious. Made up entirely of demons whose origins are wholly unknown, or otherwise hard to track, the race as a whole is incredibly difficult to even parse, and unfortunately, today's Demon of the Day is one of those that belong to this accursed collection. Welcome Kinmamon, an incredibly strange god of Okinawa with a notable lack of sources. Yep, we have another one of these.

Kinmamom is a purported Okinawan deity originating from Ryukyuan religion, but almost everything surrounding it is vague and murky before its eventual co-opting into the Ijun religion of Ryukyu. While basically everything regarding it seems to paint it as a recent development, a god created for Ijun to be the cosmic deity above all others, there are many other sources that contest this.

Ijun, a Shinto offshoot religion native to Okinawa, is a modern religion created in 1972 to worship Kinmamom, yet there are many other things relating to this deity that make it difficult to parse- for one, a 19th century play called "Strange Tales of the Bow Moon" purportedly references Kinmamom, as this tumblr post by @yamayuandadu goes over, referenced in the Japanese wikipedia page about Kinmamom. However, of course, Wikipedia is far from a reliable source, but something else which almost ensures that this god didn't originate from Ijun is a vintage article in German that references the god by name, despite originating from over 100 years ago.

Past that, though, a good source comes from... hey, they reblogged my Backbeard post! Holy shit! Wow, I didn't expect things to come full circle like this. Anyway, one of the few sources I can work off of for this outside of several deep insights into Ijun itself is this post by @eirikrjs which talks about his role as a god of the sea who brought 'life' to the Okinawan islands. To quote,

Also known as “the God from Beyond the Sea, Marebito”, Kinmamon is an enigmatic and mysterious deity of Ryukyu Shinto, a branch of Shinto obviously practiced in the Ryukyu islands. His/her connections with sea travel and the implication that he/she brought “life” to the Ryukyu islands are thought to imply it was an introduced figure and was quite possibly Amaterasu who was introduced and then changed through lack of continual contact at the time. The kanji used for Kinmamon’s name, “  君真物 ” literally meaning “the true one”, are also thought to have been used as an honorific title for miko (shrine maidens); consequently, there is also a belief that perhaps Kinmamon is simply the evolution of the deification of miko. In addition, the kanji “ 君” is often used to write “ 神女”, megami or “goddess”, in the local Ryukyu dialect which causes even further gender confusion!Bibliography:   『琉球神道記』  袋中著    宜野座嗣剛  訳  東洋図書出版   “Records of Ryukyu Shinto” by  Hiroshi Azuma.  Orient Books Publications/Shorin Ronshu, 2001.  ISBN-10: 4947667737

But, well, you know the lack of sources is bad when almost everything out there has to be choppily translated. In Ijun, Kinmamon is an all-powerful deity who visited the founder of the religion, Takayasu Rokuro, and instructed him to seek out an ancient book called the Ryukyu Shinto-ki, as gone over in this paper by Christopher A. Reichl. As the paper goes into, Takayasu speaks of Kinmamon as a deity who was once worshipped in the very early ages, though was forgotten about after Satsuma rose to power, phasing out the religion in 1609. Of course, I cannot find any source for this, but it could possibly explain why Kinmamon is so obscure, yet still referenced in ages-old articles predating Ijun itself. A lot of the things relating to this deity are obscure, and it's very fitting for its race being, well, that of an Enigma.

Hilariously, almost all of the sources I could find for this were also confused SMT fans trying to figure out the source for this demon. We really are just an ouroboros of hyperfixated nerds, huh. I haven't played Strange Journey, so I can't give much of a take on Kinmamon's portrayal in the series, but I do find the design very cool and unique- I especially love the symbols on its head and arms, though I'm not sure what they could ultimately mean? Overall, though, I'd recommend digging deep yourselves into this demon's backstory. Maybe you all could uncover something I couldn't!