#jizo

[zegalba]

Hideaki Kawashima: Jizo (2006)

#Hideaki Kawashima #Jizo #art #illustrations #sadness #face #japan #2006

[chitaka45]

京都　大原　三千院　❄️雪景色2024❄️

kyoto ohara sanzenin temple ❄️snow❄️

#japan #kyoto #ohara #sanzenin temple #snow #jizo #京都 #大原三千院 #雪景色2024 #お地蔵様

[koshigurajumy]

Jumy-M Jizo / 地蔵尊七福神

#地蔵 #寺院 #temple #japan #jizo #jumym #photographers on tumblr

[gallusrostromegalus]

Mayuri broke out of hell and his sword is his parole officer??? I need elaboration immediately, I have such a morbid fascination with Mayuri he's my horrifying little torture meow meow

So some important things about Hell in AEIWAM:

I haven't read any of Kubo's newer work and I do not have plans to unless someone can vouch that it's really, really cool

They REALLY don't want anyone to stay there, because Hell is functionally Rehab.

See, the function of Hell in AEIWAM is to act as a sort of repair shop for damaged souls- souls that harm others don't produce as much energy when they move from one plane to another, and prevent other souls from completing their cycles and that's bad for The Life Machine, so it's in The Machine's interest that those harmful souls Stop That ASAP. So in hell, a Soul that has say, done a bunch of murder is meticulously taken apart and examined by Demons, who figure out Why He Did That, and then come up with a treatment program to Make Sure He Doesn't Do That Next Time. Sometimes it's therapy, sometimes it's hard labor to undo the spiritual pollution you caused, sometimes they have to uh. vivisect a soul and remove an unhelpful segment of soul. There's no BAD souls or soul fragments, according to the Demons of Hell- what's dangerous egotism in one person is a healthy level of self-esteem in another person and you just gotta... swap the spiritual organs, as it were. The demons really, really want you to get better!

3. They also don't want you to stick around because Hell has a bit of an overpopulation problem.

See, when the Four-to-Five Noble houses dismembered the Soul King and used parts of his body to black off the spirit world according to political preference rather than any kind of functionality, they tried to block off Hell entirely, perhaps to evade the fate that awaited them.

But they fucked up, and now the only part of Hell that's Blocked is THE EXIT, and it's blocked by God's Divine Ass :/. Now, there is, technically, An Exit built in, as it were, but it's very small compared to the original exit, and now there is a Queue To Get Out.

This has created MANY problems for Hell- The Demons have a running Metric for "Does this soul REALLY need to go to rehab?"*, and even with it stripped down to the most generous assumptions of "this was probably more circumstances than your fault" and most limited definitions of "Harm" and "Danger", there's still a steady stream of souls entering Hell, and it's larger than the stream escaping out. So now the majority population of Hell is Perfectly Fine people who completed their Rehab, but can't leave because the airport is closed.

*The reason soul society doesn't attempt to reunite people in the afterlife is that they actually cannot- who goes where after death is the provenance of Hell, and shinigami don't have any input on the process, save to occasionally herd someone back into the afterlife queue via Konsho.

It's getting. Crowded.

It's getting crowded to the point that Hell is actually starting to Burst at the seams- which is a solution and a problem- these crack represent the dimension literally unravelling, but it's also an opportunity for The Ruler Of Hell to stabilize those cracks and make new exits and move a bit more of that Queue along.

It's during one of these stabilization projects that Mayuri makes his escape.

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The thing is. Mayuri wasn't even in that much trouble! He'd been the Medieval Japanese equivalent of a Fry Cook in life and uh. Poisoned a few people trying out new recpies, mostly involving novel culinary mushrooms. His fault, if you had to pick the main one, was an overabundance of curiousity relative to his sense of caution and a minor problem of not being able to imagine the interiority of others. None of those are EVIL. Dangerous, sure! But entirely fixable! and Mayuri had been quite young when he died because he had gotten a little too curious and tried his latest recipe out himself.

So Mayuri had been assigned to Jizo. In Real Life, Jizo is a pretty cool religious figure- he's the Bohdisattva who's whole thing is that absolutely no-one is incapable of becoming a better person, and refused to achieve Nirvana until all the hells are empty. He's the last guy out when the universe ends, and the particular patron of dead children and orphans. He is associated with caterpillar imagery because he wears a long cloak that all the lost souls of children can take shelter under, and when they all trail out behind him, it looks a bit like he's a centaur with a caterpillar body from all the little legs sticking out from under him.

...Which is why Mayuri's Zanpaktou looks like that.

Jizo seems like a WEIRD spirit to be hanging out with Mayuri imho, unless Jizo was originally Mayuri's Guardian/therapist/parole officer, and Mayuri did something shitty.

I think Mayuri HAD been making a lot of progress in terms of "the scientific process is a PROCESS for a reason" and "Other beings have feelings too" and "Harming others is Bad", and he's a clever lad who could be doing a lot of good if pointed in the right direction, so Jizo advocated for Mayuri to be put on one of the Hell-Crack stabilization teams to give him a good outlet for his restless mind.

Unfortunately for Jizo, he miscalculated how much progress mayuri had actually made vs his desire to not go to rehab, and Mayuri pulled some sort of stunt that bound Jizo to a sword like an Asauchi, and absconded with him to the Spirit world through the crack, promptly got arrested for More Science Crimes in spirit world, got sent to the Maggots Nest, and eventually caught the attention of Urahara, who saw the Chemistry Brilliance of Mayuri and exactly NONE of the Red Flags.

As it stands Mayuri is... Sort-of the captain of the 12th division.

Sure, on paper he's The Captain, he gets to wear the Haori and has to go to the meetings, but R&D is only a fraction of what the 12th actually does- rememer, Urahara is the guy that STARTED Research and Development. Before that, I think the 12th division was 100% devoted with being the gotei-13's SUPPLIER- food, uniforms, medicine manufacture, weapons repair, gigai, soul candy, maps, communicators- if you got it for work, it was made in the 12th division.

I think Mayuri is aware of maybe 12% of what his division actually does, because the people who are in charge of manufacture were around before Urahara, took one look at that man and went "...Nah" and started quietly Not Telling Him About Things. When Mayuri took over, they went "Absolutely Not" and have been engaged in a century-long farce to prevent the captain of the 12th from knowing what his division actually does. Fortunately for them, it's extremely easy to lie to Mayuri. He's a suspicious bastard, but he LOVES good news, especially the kind of news that is good because it means he doesn't have to go to another boring-ass meeting. So things are JUST FINE down in manufacture, your latest improvements were TOTALLY IMPLEMENTED and are going GREAT. Everyone remarks on how much better the MREs are since we started adding live beetles to them Sir. Your Genius is Much Praised- Whoops Is That The Time? Gotta Go- the science never stops!

He's going to run into a bit of a stumbling block in Las Noches though. Not Sayzel, though Sayzel doesn't help. He's going to run into the consequences of a Former Experiment that are REAL FUCKIN' MAD AT HIM. No, not Uryuu, though Uryuu is FAR FROM PLEASED. Mayuri is going to have to face the consequences of a much worse experiment- one based on the procedures of disassembling and reassembling souls he learned while he was in Hell. Mayuri will have to face The Wrath Of Kon

#AEIWAM #an elephant is warm and mushy #Bleach #Bleach fanfic #bleach mayuri #mayuri kurotsuchi #jizo #Bleach Kon #yes that is a pun :)

[crazyfox-archives]

A sculpted image of Jizō Bodhisattva (地蔵菩薩) crafted by the Buddhist artist Kaikei (快慶) during the early Kamakura period (1185-1333), from the collection of the Fujita Art Museum (藤田美術館) in Osaka

Photo by piro, a Twitter account dedicated to Buddhist images, hot springs, and travel

#japanese art #buddhist art #地蔵菩薩 #地蔵 #jizo #快慶 #kaikei #大阪市 #osaka

[yoga-onion]

- A message from 23 nights temple -

“All times, you can attain victory by doing, not by thinking. On other occasions, you can attain victory by thinking, not by doing.”

-二十三夜堂からのメッセージ-

”常に、考えるのではなく、実行することによって勝利を得ることができる。また、あるときは、実行するのではなく、考えることによって、勝利を得ることができる。”

#zen #mindfulness #buddhism #wisdom #philosophy #nature #art #jizo

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Jizo statue in the forest (Kyoto, Japan)

Source: Reddit

#Jizo #statue #forest #kyoto #japan #Kyoto Japan #weird #amazing #garden #nature #green #vegetation

[cyberianpunks]

Amorality is a quality admired and rewarded in modern organizations, where it is referred to through metaphors such as professionalism and efficiency...Immorality is doing wrong of our own volition. Amorality is doing it because a structure or organization expects us to do it

#art #collage #retrofuture #design #jizo #bodhisattva #think tank #quote #meeting #black and white #monochrome #one-dimensional man #three poisons institutionalized #consciousness commodified

[kbuty]

Welcoming Descent of Jizō, 1200s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, and cut gold on silk; image: 59 x 33.2 cm (23 1/4 x 13 1/16 in.); overall: 120.7 x 51.4 cm (47 1/2 x 20 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1983.75

This painting depicts the bodhisattva Jizō—an enlightened being who refuses entry into nirvana in order to aid other beings in their quest for enlightenment—in the guise of a monk carrying a wish-fulfilling jewel and a golden staff with a finial adorned with jingling rings. He descends with each of his feet balanced atop a lotus pedestal borne by clouds to rescue a suffering believer who has called out for his help. Images of the Welcoming Descent of Jizō may be related to the Kasuga Shrine, where Jizō corresponds to the kami (Shinto deity) of the third shrine.

#art #japanese #japan #painting #jizo #bodhisattva #kamakura #13th century #japanese art #religious imagery #religion #shinto #buddhism

[maruhi]

Jizo-do Templa 地蔵堂

#sakatacity #yamagata #japan #jizo #temple

[bonguri]

20230612 Gujo 12 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: 苗代桜の直ぐ側にあったお地蔵様。お地蔵様なのにしめ縄に紙垂。 @Nawashiro sakura, Gero city, Gifu pref. （岐阜県下呂市 苗代桜）

#Jizo #Buddhism #Stone statue #Stone #Statue #Shimenawa #Shide #Nawashiro sakura #Sakura #Sakura tree #Cherry blossom #Tree #Trees #Forest #Mountain #Nature #Plant #Wasa area #Gero #Gifu #Japan #RICOH #RICOH GR3 #flickr

[japan-minka]

Mamenbara Plateau Jizo

#japan #ajisai #jizo #temple

[chitaka45]

京都　詩仙堂　🌸サツキ🌸

kyoto shisendo temple 🌸satsuki azelears🌸

#japan #kyoto #shisendo #temple #azarea #jizo #carp #京都 #詩仙堂 #さつき #皐月 #紫陽花 #お地蔵さん #鯉 #手水 #そうだ京都行こう #お写んぽ

[koshigurajumy]

Jumy-M Jizo statues in the city / 街の地蔵たち

#地蔵 #街 #鎌倉 #street #jizo #jizo statues #japan #jumym #photographers on tumblr

[sandman-kk]

Chigasaki, Kanagawa. September 2023. 14672

(via 2023-11 - Sandman-KK)

#street photography #road #jizo #stone #kanagawa #japan #2023 #original photographers #artists on tumblr #kkworks

[crazyfox-archives]

A sculpted image of Jizō Bodhisattva (地蔵菩薩) dating to the Kamakura period (1185-1333) at Tōji Temple (東寺) in Kyoto, possibly entrusted here from a temple closed down during the turmoil of the early Meiji years during the 1860's and 1870's

Image from "東寺の菩薩像" [Images of Bodhisattvas at Tōji] published by 東寺宝物館 [Tōji Treasure Museum], 1993, page 35

#japanese art #buddhist art #地蔵菩薩 #地蔵 #jizo #京都 #kyoto #東寺 #toji #真言宗 #shingon #crazyfoxarchives #arte budista #arte japonés