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Buddha sculpture, giving a wonderful serene feeling to your Japanese style room! Yamazakura.co.uk https://www.instagram.com/p/CZRe74ToFtt/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The Takasago Legend is recounted in the Daruma Museum web article, “Meoto Fufu (couple) and Enmusubi“: “This legend is one of the oldest in Japanese mythology. An old couple – his name is Joo (尉) and hers is Uba (媼) known together as Jotomba – are said to appear from the mist at Lake Takasago. The old man and his wife are usually portrayed talking happily together with a pine tree in the background. Signifying, as they do, a couple living in perfect harmony until they grow old together, they have long been a symbol of the happiness of family life. The story is portrayed in a famous Noo play “Takasago no Uta” At Takasago Shrine there is a very old pine tree, the trunk of which is bifurcated (相生の松); in it dwells the spirit of the Maiden of Takasago who was seen once by the son of Izanagi who fell in love and wedded her. Both lived to a very great age, dying at the same hour on the same day, and since then their spirits abide in the tree, but on moonlight nights they return to human shape to revisit the scene of their earthly felicity and pursue their work of gathering pine needles. His pine tree is also called “The Pine of Sumi-no-e” (住吉の松) and hers is the Takasago pine (高砂の松). The old woman is using a broom to sweep away trouble and he carries a rake to rake in good fortune. In Japanese this is also a play of words with “One Hundred Years” (haku > sweeping the floor) and “until 99 years” (kujuku made > kumade, meaning a rake). In Japan, at wedding ceremonies, the Takasago song is recited and Takasago figures are put on a special “Island Shelf” called called Shimadai (島台) together with auspicious Pine-Bamboo-Plum and Crane with Turtle decorations placed in the wedding room and presented to the bridal couple. Depictions of the Takasago figures can be made from lacquer, ceramics, wood carvings and textiles and are to invoke a long and fruitful married life for the newlyweds. These figurines are also given as presents for a wedding aniversary of 25 or 50 or more years. For the diamond wedding aniversary of 60 years, some communities also give Takasago Dolls to the happy couple…. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZRKmRPocD5/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Beautiful tea cup ( chawan) display. Yamazakura.co.uk https://www.instagram.com/yamazakura.co.uk/p/CZJ9Kc2o3FF/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Many specialist books in our store! Don’t miss out . Yamazakura.co.uk https://www.instagram.com/p/CReKM2vIR5v/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Samurai

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Beautiful fusion of old and new in the Japanese style whisky stand !

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Tea cup display

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Beautiful lacquered box

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Hakata doll Samurai .

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Amazing carved sword stand

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Andon lantern

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Buddha

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Uchine throwing spear

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Beautiful lacquered set of draws

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Tachi kake

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Hotei

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Buddhist temple art Two wonderfully carved wooden decorations from a Buddhist temple . Remounted to enhance your Japanese style room. 290mm x 180 mm https://www.instagram.com/p/CPAT7dWHaby/?utm_medium=tumblr