Benzaijima Island (弁財島) with its torii gate leading to a small shrine to the goddess Benzaiten in Owase, Mie Prefecture
Photo by TOM in 2018
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Tenkawa Daibenzaiten-sha is located Deep in the Mountains of Nara-ken.
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Benzaiten / Nara, Japan
Vegan-friendly fresh daifuku 🍊🍐🍑🍏
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The autobiography of Juno Steel:
Absolutely no slander towards TPP whatsoever, I just simply cannot accept Juno's age. Maybe it's because fifteen years is my entire lifespan minus two, but I can't comprehend that Juno just-
-for fifteen years, and is JUST NOW having all of his personal growth and development and processing all of his trauma.
Not that this can't happen at 38-40, it absolutely can, but I am specifically incapable of listening to Juno's voice and behaviours and think, ah yes, this is a 40 year old person. Literally the moment he finishes saying his age the information ejects itself from my head.
That man is 31 at an absolute maximum.
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Toyokawa Inari Shrine: Syncretic Religion
A little while back, during my post on Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, I alluded to how the native Shinto religion often blended with Buddhism up until the early modern period (e.g. the Meiji Period) when they were more forcefully separated.
You can still see vestiges of this blending in some temples and shrines, but one great example is the Toyokawa Inari shrine right in the heart of…
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弁天 Benten Goddess
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Benzaiten (ROR) x F!Reader hanging out with each other and how much they yearn and giving gifts to each other. A wholesome request
Benzaiten is probably the nicest of all the seven gods. She is particularly the nicest when she’s not around them, as her easy going attitude tends to get her swept up in the others’ malice.
Alone, she makes friends easily and cherishes them as very little is just her own.
She also likes being ‘adored’ alone through friendship as she often lumped with the others as well.
She prefers small, sentimental gifts over flashy ones. Giving and receiving.
She prefers cute, feminine girls as friends, but can tolerate more ‘masculine’ types as the gods are a spectrum of strength & beauty.
There’s just a lot of male energy in her life, so she’d like to have cute girl time.
Her most unique gift she gives are the songs she writes for them. Able to play any instrument, she has a lot of them.
Would want to wear matching outfits with her best friend, but is often shut down.
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Humanos Vs. Dioses (Ep 17)
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A painted image of the goddess Benzaiten (弁才天) and her fifteen child acolytes dating to the 14th century at Jimyōin Temple (持明院) on Mount Kōya (高野山) in Wakayama Prefecture
Image from "天部の諸尊 / Divine Figures in the Realm of Deva" published by the Kōyasan Reihōkan Museum (高野山霊宝館) on Mount Kōya in 1994, page 28
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Tenkawa Daibenzaiten-sha is located Deep in the Mountains of Nara-ken.
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Takarabune parody with Yo-Kai Watch's Seven Lucky Gods of Fortune (click for higher quality)
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Tattoo Analysis: Majima Goro
Man-o-Majima, does Majima got a lot packed into a small space.
(Tattoo Breakdown)
First of all, Majima really is just queer coded to hell and back. Especially before he became a protag and they tried to straighten him out (it did not work. you just made him bi🎉) He is coated in feminine imagery, the Hannya being a female demon, the Sakura Blossoms representing spring, beauty, and rebirth, and the white snakes that are associated with the only female member of the Shichifukujin, or 7 lucky gods. According to Yakuza tattoo designer Horitomo, these were all picked to give him a wild, crazy aura.
Let's talk about that Hannya Mask because HOO BOY. Madness and rage mixed with grief and heartache fits Majima to a t. It's always impressive when they take something about a character and retrofit it to reflect multiple aspects of their life. From his loss of his sworn brother, his missed chance with Makoto, his failed marriage to Park— Majima had lost a lot. So he bends that sorrow into something possessive and destructive— i.e. his obsession with Kiryu, (especially in 1/Kiwami) and his dedication to climbing up the Tojo ranks so he can make a place for Saejima. Majima is someone who loves big, with all of himself.
Snakes both protect sacred places and bring curses to those who disturb them. White snakes are particularly sacred. Majima is given the responsibility of protecting the Tojo, and all of Kamurocho in Kiryu's place in 3. Snakes also represent immortality and rebirth. Majima is probably the character who has changed the most over the course of the games, while still maintaining his image as an unstoppable force of nature. In 0 Majima even lays down a pretty literal "curse on both your houses" moment when he swears to kill everyone present at Makoto's shooting, regardless of involvement.
Also just a funny fact, but Benzaiten, the goddess represented by the white snakes, calmed a rampaging dragon after it fell in love with her, in some versions even marrying the dragon. Take that as you will.
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JUNO AND BENZAITEN DAY
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Benzaiten!
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