Eiheiji Temple
Eiheiji is one of two main temples of the Soto sect of Zen Buddhism. Its founder was Eihei Dogen.
Dogen founded Eiheiji in 1246 in the woods of rural Japan, quite far from the distractions of Kamakura period urban life. He appointed a successor, but sometime after his death the abbacy of Eiheiji became hotly disputed, a schism now called the sandai soron. Until 1468, Eiheiji was not held by the current Keizan line of Soto, but by the line of Dogen's Chinese disciple Jakuen. After 1468, when the Keizan line took ownership of Eiheiji in addition to its major temple Sojiji and others, Jakuen's line and other alternate lines became less prominent.
The entire temple was destroyed by fire several times. Its oldest standing structure dates from 1749, and the manuscripts in its treasure house are reconstructions from that era.
Today, Eiheiji is the main training temple of Soto Zen. The standard training for a priest in Eiheiji is from three months to a two year period of practice. It is in communion with all Japanese Soto Zen temples, and some temples in America, including the San Francisco Zen Center.
Eiheiji is located Fukui Prefecture.
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Hands-on with Japanese Paper, Cabinets, and Knives
I visited Echizen, a small city 75 minutes by train from Kyoto. It had none of the crowds but a lot of the traditional culture, from handcrafted paper (washi), to cabinets (tansu), to knives (hamono). The shokunin's dedication to these traditional Japanese crafts was inspiring to see, all the more so when you try yourself and get a glimpse of what it takes.
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For over 200 Years the Family-Run Workshop has Produced Hand-Hammered Tsuiki Copperware
For over 200 Years the Family-Run Workshop has Produced Hand-Hammered Tsuiki Copperware.
Even after the introduction of machinery to the industry in the modern era, many artisans have stuck to the traditions of the blacksmith – they are not just stubbornly holding onto the past, but, with scientific knowledge and experiments, have been renewing and adjusting their techniques in order to match contemporary life.
Tsubame-Tsuiki Copperware Craftsman: Hiyama Akiko (樋山 朗子さん)
Born 1990 in Niigata Prefecture
Gyokusendo 7th Generation (Teacher): Tamagawa Motoyuki (玉川 基行さん)
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Tsubame Tsuiki Coppereware are metalwork made in an area around Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture. As traditional craftwork originating in the mid-Edo Period, Tsubame Tsuiki Coppereware have been produced in the form of kettles, and the like, by using copper extracted from the region’s Mt. Yahiko.
Tsuiki means shaping metal by hand hammering, and in this case one piece of malleable copper plate will be extended using a range of traditional skills and techniques. Characteristics of Tsubame Tsuiki Coppereware include a shiny appearance created by tsuiki performed by a master artisan, and with time the texture of copper increases in attractiveness with long-term use and proper care. In addition to kettles, other beautiful Tsubame Tsuiki Coppereware every day articles include vases, water pitchers, teapots, and the like. And apart from looking so fine, tea poured from a copper teapot is said to have a milder taste due to the action of metal ions. Each product is made by several hundred thousand hammer blows making the outer side so smooth it looks like china. Tsubam
e Tuiki Coppereware was designated as a traditional craft by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in 1981.
History
Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture, famous for its production of metalwork, has a history starting from the making of Japanese nails in around the early Edo Period. Tsubame Tsuiki Doki originates with artisans from Sendai visiting Tsubame City sometime in the mid-Edo Period and introducing the copperware techniques of tsuiki; the hammering techniques of that time have been handed down for well over 200 years. Tsubame City is currently the only area producing tsuiki copperware in the country. The main reason for the development of the production of tsuiki copperware in the region is the high-grade copper ore extracted from neighboring Mt. Yahiko. Tsubame Tsuiki Coppereware over time developed techniques beyond the simple making of kettles and in the Meiji Period adopted metal carving techniques suited for more artistic crafts. Copperware, such as teapots, vases, and art work, which become more attractive over a long period of time has been loved for many years, and has become indispensable in daily life. A vase of Tsubame Tsuiki Coppereware was even dedicated to the Emperor Meiji in 1894.
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General Production Process
1. Hammering
2. Uchishibori (Thinning)
3. Annealing
4. Shaping
5. Metal carving
6. Coloring and Finishing
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Fugen Suwa, chief priest of Kongoin Temple, talks about the hidden attraction of Eiheiji Temple in Fukui Prefecture.
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Memories of an Artisan
This film pays homage to the work of Korean craftsman Kim Soo-Young, winner of the YÉOL Award for Craftsman of the Year 2013. The intense heat required to forge his materials are juxtaposed with the harsh Korean winter landscape in which Kim Soo-Young lives and works.
Korean folk and rock singer, Hahn Dae-soo, recites an original poem written by Yoon Jiyeong that has been inspired by the footage from this film. The music is a track called her soft circumference by offthesky. The track can be purchased through bandcamp.com
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ZEN (2009) The Life of Zen Master Dogen (Jap. with Eng. Subtitles). Full film.
This is a dramatic reconstruction of the Life of the great Japanese monk Dogen who flourished in Japan in the 13th century and introduced Soto Zen Buddhism from China.
It appears from the film that Buddhism was in a very corrupt state in Japan in the 13th century, with drinking and whoring common in the Sangha.
To find out what the Buddha had really taught Dogen travelled to China, where he met the master Ju-ching, whose teaching was to have a life-long effect of the young monk: the practice of Zen is to have the mind and the body fall away, this falling away is the path out of ignorance and vice.
Almost upon meeting the master he received face-to-face transmission at the Tien-tung-shan temple and given the transmission of the Dharma.
Another big influence on him at that time was the Kitchen Master at the Ayu-wan-shan kuang-li Zen Temple, in whose honour the Kitchen Master Instructions were later written.
After returning to Japan in 1227, he wrote his first major work, which brought him some notoriety, and not a little persecution from the established sects.
Even though he moved some way from Kyoto to avoid persecution, the temple he founded there was eventually burned down and he was forced to retire to an even more remote location, at Eheiji in the Echizen mountains.
On his way he was joined by the monk who was to become his main Dharma heir, Ejo, and members of other sects who were looking for a more pure form of the teaching.
In the film there is a sub-story about a young girl called Orin whose life Dogen saves before he leaves for China, and meets again as a young woman, who has fallen in with a cripple, who forces her to prostitute herself for an income.
Later, in a remake of the Kisāgotamī story, she loses her child to illness, and begs Dogen to restore him for her. He tells her to fetch a bean from a house where no one ever died, but of course there is no such house (this is a parable taken directly from the Buddha himself, Siddhartha Gautama). This film does not credit this to the Tathagata, which was odd.
Orin follows Dogen to Eheiji, and a young Kitchen Master falls in love with her, and disrobes. On his death-bed Dogen gives permission for her to ordain when he has passed away.
Later in the film Dogen is called to Kamakura to meet the Shogun who is tormented by the spirits of those he has killed on the battlefield, Dogen gives his Zen teaching: “Zazen is to see the water in the vast ocean,” and the Shogun offers to establish him in a monastery he will build for him in Kamakura, but Dogen refuses and returns to the mountins.
Not long afterwards we see him on his death-bed at the young age of 54, appointing his successors and giving his final teaching before passing away. At the funeral we see legions of monks attending, who are presumably meant to represent all his Dharma heirs over the centuries since that time.
The main outline of the story presented in the film seems to be fairly accurate, but some details, like Orin’s story appear to be added for dramatic effect, and I am unsure whether they really form a part of his life-story.
There is little effort made to really convey what his teaching was, but then this is dramatic biography, not a documentary as such, and we cannot really expect any more.
Review by: Anandajoti (Dharma Documentaries). 2011
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'Zen' Buddhist teacher Dogen Zenji is a very important religious person during the Kamakura period, 750 years ago. After his mother died, he decides to move to China and settle as a Buddhist teacher. One bright morning, enlightened, Zenji returns to Japan as a devoted evangelist of the 'new' Buddhism. However, this new form of Buddhism is not accepted in all communities.
—Rene Guillot
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Director: Banmei Takahashi
Writers: Banmei Takahashi (screenplay), Tetsuo Ôtani (novel)
Stars: Kankurô Nakamura, Yuki Uchida, Ryushin Tei
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Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu (紫 式部, English: Lady Murasaki) (c. 978 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Murasaki Shikibu is a nickname; her real name is unknown, but she may have been Fujiwara Takako, who was mentioned in a 1007 court diary as an imperial lady-in-waiting.
Heian women were traditionally excluded from learning Chinese, the written language of government, but Murasaki, raised in her erudite father's household, showed a precocious aptitude for the Chinese classics and managed to acquire fluency. She married in her mid-to late twenties and gave birth to a daughter before her husband died, two years after they were married. It is uncertain when she began to write The Tale of Genji, but it was probably while she was married or shortly after she was widowed. In about 1005, Murasaki was invited to serve as a lady-in-waiting to Empress Shōshi at the Imperial court, probably because of her reputation as a writer. She continued to write during her service, adding scenes from court life to her work. After five or six years, she left court and retired with Shōshi to the Lake Biwa region. Scholars differ on the year of her death; although most agree on 1014, others have suggested she was alive in 1025.
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禅 (道元禅師) - Zen | Life of Master Dogen (Eng sub) - Zen | la vida de Dogen (sub Español)
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Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師; also Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元, or Koso Joyo Daishi) (19 January 1200 -- 22 September 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Kyōto. He founded the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan after travelling to China and training under Rujing, a master of the Chinese Caodong lineage.
Dōgen is known for his extensive writing including the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma or Shōbōgenzō, a collection of ninety-five fascicles concerning Buddhist practice and enlightenment.
Eihei Dōgen (永平道元) también Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師) o Dōgen Kigen (道元希玄) o Koso Joyo Daishi (literalmente Gran Maestro) (19 de enero de 1200 -- 22 septiembre de 1253) fue un maestro budista japonés fundador de la escuela Sōtō del Zen en este país. Nacido en Kioto en el seno de una familia noble, quedó huérfano de padre y madre a muy temprana edad, siendo adoptado por uno de sus tíos. A los 13 años, entró como novicio en el Monte Hiei, centro de la escuela Tendaishū. En la primavera de 1223 partió hacia China, regresando a Japón en 1227 tras haber sido reconocido por el maestro Rujing como maestro de la escuela Cáodòng (曹洞宗, pronunciado Sōtō-shū en Japonés).
Tras su regreso, desarrolló su actividad religiosa en templos cercanos a Kioto, reuniendo a su alrededor una comunidad de seguidores de la nueva escuela del Budismo Zen. En 1243, se trasladó con ellos a Echizen, en la actual prefectura de Fukui. En esta región, fundó el templo Eihei-ji (永平寺), que se mantiene hasta la actualidad como uno de los dos templos principales de la escuela Sōtō.
Japan Travel: Nara most architectural national treasures in Japan, Nara28
Japan Travel: Nara most architectural national treasures in Japan, Nara28
Japan's first full-scale capital was established in the year 710 at Heijo, the city today known as Nara. As city's powerful buddhist monasteries had come to have more and more influence and political ambitions, it became a serious threat to the government, causing the capital to be moved to Nagaoka in 784.
Nara is located less than one hour from Kyoto and Osaka. Because of its history as the first permanent capital, it remains full of historic treasures, including some of Japan's oldest and largest temples. Eight temples, shrines and ruins remain in Nara.
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Japan Emotion in Fukui
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A young couple make a 3-day trip across Fukui, a prefecture which is located nearly in the center of Japan.
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小松空港に降り立った二人が福井県を旅しながらその魅力を紹介します。
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First Making Bamboo Crafts Experience in Japan
The guests from America and Australia experienced chopping and shaving the bamboo to make crafts at Echizen Bamboo Doll Village in Maruoka-cho, Fukui, Japan. The master with more than 45 years of experience making bamboo dolls helped them.
Hachiman and Dokyo part 2
Part 2 of a video about the rise of Hachiman veneration and Buddhist priest Dokyo's attempt to become emperor.
This year's first KIRARI-KAI party 今年初めてのキラリ会
KIRARI-KAI is a gathering for dinner of active businessmen from other prefectures, who currently work in Fukui,every month except January. This year's first KIRARI-KAI was held on 19th February.
The guest speaker this time was a priest of Soto Kongoin Temple in Echizen City. He told many things about Eiheiji Temple which was also closely-linked to himself.
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「キラリ会」は県外出身で福井で活躍するビジネスマンが1月を除く毎月、会食をしながら親睦を深める集まりです。平成27年になって初めての「キラリ会」が2月19日に開催されました。
今回のゲストスピーカーは越前市にある曹洞宗金剛院の御住職で、
ご自身にも関係の深い永平寺にまつわる様々なお話をして下さいました。
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戸田家の兄妹 - Todake no kyôdai - The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941) Yasujirô Ozu
1h 45min | Drama | 1 March 1941 (Japan)
This 1941 film is one of the few upper-class family dramas by Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu, and the domestic furnishings and how they're framed help make it one of his most visually ravishing works. The events center on the untimely death of the father.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Writers: Tadao Ikeda, Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino