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Originally Posted by Byrdibyrd
The next animal is the snake.
Years of the Snake have fallen on the following years: 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025.
The guardian for people born in the Years of the Dragon and Years of the Snake is Fugen. He is the god of virtue, diligence, worthiness, and universal good. He is often depicted with his hands clasped in prayer and riding an elephant. His icons are the second most difficult to find (we'll get to the worst in a bit). Even so, there is a beautiful one at Gansen-ji Temple in Kyôto prefecture (good luck with that - Gansen-ji is very much out in the hinterlands) and another on a tapestry in the Tôkyô National Museum.

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	I've really dropped the ball on posting updates here. I don't know how @Byrdibyrd managed to keep up. I suppose I'd have a little more time if I weren't spending time with family in addition to having adventures. But for the most part, I've been keeping too busy to post regularly. When I last posted, on December 22, I had planned to go to Yokohama but got rained out that morning. Well, the weather cleared up by late morning, but by then it would have been too late to start out. So instead of going to Yokohama, I took the afternoon to go to Tachikawa and do some more CD shopping. I made a return visit to Tachikawa's Disk Union location, where I had more time to look this time (and of course found more to get, especially in the 100-yen sections). I also was able to shop at a chain called BookOff that offers secondhand books, manga, DVDs, CDs, records, and other goods and collectibles. The prices on secondhand CDs are often really low, especially with the current exchange rate. In between the two store visits, I went to find the "red demon" slide my brother told me about in Oni Park. Apparently this slide has appeared in some fiction (manga, anime, TV) that is set in Tachikawa. It certainly stands out. I took a quick photo and left without sliding or exploring around it more--the grounds were muddy from the earlier rain.
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	Quote: Originally Posted by sborock @Byrdibyrd I am a rabbit A fellow rabbit! Next year will belong to us, then. And here's our guy, Monju:
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	IM A COCK !! 1969...
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	1971 @multi007 lol!!!
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	1958 Of course must be why I have 4 dogs!
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	For anyone curious as to what an icon of Thousand-Armed Kannon looks like when it actually has a thousand arms (!), check this out: Unfortunately, there's nothing in the photo to give this scale. This is the Thousand-Armed Kannon at Toshodai-ji Temple in Nara, and she is massive at nearly 18 feet tall!
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	@WMorse YES, that is Gansen-ji Temple, very well-known for its lovely hydrangeas in the summer. That is a view of the beautiful pagoda. Between the flowers and the pagoda is a pond. To the right and not in the frame is the temple's main hall.
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	Here's one of my photos of Gansen-ji's pagoda from a slightly different angle: Here's another photo from that same summer trip. LICENSE NUMBER OF THE BEAST!!! I'm tellin' you, it gets pretty hot & humid in Japan in the summertime...
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	For more displays of summer flowers, Mimuroto-ji Temple just north of Uji in Kyoto prefecture has a stunning array of hydrangeas on the grounds: ... and lotuses directly in front of the temple's main buildings.
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	Quote: Originally Posted by multi007 I live in ft lauderdale, and we sure get the humidity, but sadly we don’t get the snow Japan gets. Japan has a very tropical climate in the summer and early fall, but it's far enough away from the equator that once the heat & humidity goes it can get pretty cold and there's snowfall in a lot of places (not sure on southern Kyushu or Okinawa - none or very little there) and the mountainous areas and Sea of Japan side of the country get A Lot of snow.
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	@scratchtasia I'm still loving your posts! Now I'll have to find Oni Park so I can check out the Oni (red demon) slide! Book Off is a great choice for used stuff like manga and CDs and pretty much any kind of popular media. I've found lots of manga at really affordable prices at various Book Offs. The 'Book Off' stores aren't the only '... Off' stores out there, either. I swear to you, you can find used hardware at Hard Off stores, and the one that really got me was unopened not-new/unused booze at Liquor Off. Liquor Off. Say that three times fast and try not to crack a smile.
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