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Nov. 23rd, 2005 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhymeThis is how you differentiate between a Japanese Camellia and a Camellia: when it wilts, a Japanese camellia will lose it's petals one by one. A camellia will tend to fall in a single blossem.
We went on a field trip today, which involved somewhat expensive train fare, but got us out of class for a day. At Kuramayama today, there was a special ceremony to pray for peace. To get there, we had to get up earlier than usual, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I dozed off on the train. A station before we were supposed to get off, the teacher suddenly told me to look behind me. We had entered the mountains and the momiji had begun to change their colors. Not all of them had changed, but some of the reds were quite brilliant.
The area seems to be known for tengu, as there were a lot of tengu masks for sale in the villiage. The large one next to the train station might have also been an indication. The purification fountains had lovely little dragons- I took cell phone pictures, but my battery died before I reached the temple.
Which was a total pity- against all expectations, the Kurama-dera's (jinja? Iwasn'tpayingattention ^^;;) motif was tigers. In place of the usual stone lions, there were tigers. Wonderful tigers that walked that tightrope line between "cute" and "ferocious" and they were going "ah" and "un." And I had no camera.
The ceremony itself was mostly uneventful- it went pretty much as one would expect such things to go. I sat in seiza for the entire hour. It was difficult- the only reason why I made it through was that just when I was about to give up, they had us all stand up to sing. (That too, was rather diffcult. You can deal with the pain of sitting, but when it comes time to stand, it's quite difficult. It took me a while to summon the stength to get off one knee.)
After the ceremony, we went to another building to have lunch. It seemed like it was one story, but suddenly there was a stairway and it went down and down and down. The building was built into the mountain, so the room at the bottom was still lighted naturally, but from the stairwell, you had no way of telling. The tables were laid out in such a way that I ended up sitting next to a very nice bunch of aunties from the chorus. They gave me candy and tried to explain the names of things the priests were wearing, but the words weren't in the dictionary, so it was kind of a failure. It was really fun. ^^ *
Then I bought the d.grayman calender. The end.
Note to self: 未練＝みれん＝"lingering attatchment"
*ETA: Except for the part where I discovered that they put wasabi in the kappamaki. The funny thing is that I was just thinking of Russian Roulette with Wasabi Sushi before I ate it. ^^;;
We went on a field trip today, which involved somewhat expensive train fare, but got us out of class for a day. At Kuramayama today, there was a special ceremony to pray for peace. To get there, we had to get up earlier than usual, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I dozed off on the train. A station before we were supposed to get off, the teacher suddenly told me to look behind me. We had entered the mountains and the momiji had begun to change their colors. Not all of them had changed, but some of the reds were quite brilliant.
The area seems to be known for tengu, as there were a lot of tengu masks for sale in the villiage. The large one next to the train station might have also been an indication. The purification fountains had lovely little dragons- I took cell phone pictures, but my battery died before I reached the temple.
Which was a total pity- against all expectations, the Kurama-dera's (jinja? Iwasn'tpayingattention ^^;;) motif was tigers. In place of the usual stone lions, there were tigers. Wonderful tigers that walked that tightrope line between "cute" and "ferocious" and they were going "ah" and "un." And I had no camera.
The ceremony itself was mostly uneventful- it went pretty much as one would expect such things to go. I sat in seiza for the entire hour. It was difficult- the only reason why I made it through was that just when I was about to give up, they had us all stand up to sing. (That too, was rather diffcult. You can deal with the pain of sitting, but when it comes time to stand, it's quite difficult. It took me a while to summon the stength to get off one knee.)
After the ceremony, we went to another building to have lunch. It seemed like it was one story, but suddenly there was a stairway and it went down and down and down. The building was built into the mountain, so the room at the bottom was still lighted naturally, but from the stairwell, you had no way of telling. The tables were laid out in such a way that I ended up sitting next to a very nice bunch of aunties from the chorus. They gave me candy and tried to explain the names of things the priests were wearing, but the words weren't in the dictionary, so it was kind of a failure. It was really fun. ^^ *
Then I bought the d.grayman calender. The end.
Note to self: 未練＝みれん＝"lingering attatchment"
*ETA: Except for the part where I discovered that they put wasabi in the kappamaki. The funny thing is that I was just thinking of Russian Roulette with Wasabi Sushi before I ate it. ^^;;