{"id":1460,"date":"2012-01-18T08:08:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2012-01-18T08:08:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:08:23","slug":"back-to-kawasaki-daishi-and-dragon-darumas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2012\/01\/18\/back-to-kawasaki-daishi-and-dragon-darumas\/","title":{"rendered":"back to Kawasaki Daishi and Dragon-Darumas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll post the Tsurumi Shrine pics later.<\/p>\n

First, today.
\nI had stomach distress ALL DAY LONG since breakfast. It was horrible. u_U I intended to chill at the office early and watch MMA on my laptop, but I ended up walking around all day. *sigh* <\/p>\n

Well, I went back to Kawasaki Daishi temple because my cell phone strap I got there this past December (decoration) broke. ;_; It was my own fault because I was walking while playing my Forestville game, and I dropped it. I totally deserved it. *cry* but it was glass and glowed in the dark and it was a cute sea horse. *cry!!!* I couldn’t find the same one. I got a dragon, instead.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed going back. I patronized my favorite rice cracker shop that I posted pics of before,
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It was an interesting visit because I saw and learned a lot of new things!
\nI tried sugary ginger sembei rice crackers for the first time. SO GOOD.<\/p>\n

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\nI saw these….what ARE they? Dogs? Unicorns? What? I have no idea!<\/p>\n

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\nI saw a steamed bun with the label “Sake-man.” Sake? That’s alcohol. o.O; Man means “bun.” Huh? Alcohol bun?! Bizarre. (I later asked my student, and he said, “It’s made from …uh…..uh…residue of sake.” I was more shocked that my level 2 student knew the word ‘residue.’ lol)<\/p>\n

The other purpose for me returning was to pick up a mug that I’d gotten my Dad for Christmas. The style is called “Soumaiyaki,” produced in the Fukushima prefecture, and I was told that they don’t make them anymore, so these cups will become rare. It’s double layered so I assume, it won’t be hot to the touch. It….kind of makes me feel good knowing that I’m using the same kind of mug as Dad. ^^;; I don’t really need a mug, but yeah… <3\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I also got a Dragon Daruma. The “Daruma” is a holy man who meditated for 7 years in one place so his legs shriveled up. <\/p>\n

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\nPeople buy red darumas and it represents the fact that if you topple over, you pop back up like a weeble (and life goes on, etc). ^^ They are made of like paper mache without eyes. You color one eye in black and make a wish or goal. Then, after your wish comes true, you can color in the other eye! <\/p>\n

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\nThey made a dragon-shaped one because it’s the year of the dragon. I’d never seen one before December, and I kept thinking about it and decided I needed to get one.<\/p>\n

So I accomplished what I wanted.<\/p>\n

This afternoon, my boss said, “They need a teacher in our sister school. Would you be interested in working tomorrow night?”
\nI said, “Oh, sorry, tomorrow night I can’t…on second thought, yes, I can.” *laugh* I shouldn’t be grappling on my knee, so it’s a great chance to make a few bucks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll post the Tsurumi Shrine pics later. First, today. I had stomach distress ALL DAY LONG since breakfast. It was horrible. u_U I intended to chill at the office early and watch MMA on my laptop, but I ended up walking around all day. *sigh* Well, I went back to Kawasaki Daishi temple because my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural","category-every-day","category-fun","category-13","category-5","category-8","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}