#Daigen

[justanotherniky]

愛=憎

E 🔞 | 13k | SamaIchi/IchiSama

HIGHpnosis School -Alternative Class Battle-

T | 9k | High School AU | Multiship

The Sound of CRISIS - an original song by Yatonokami Nayuta

T | 2k | AllenKana (Paradox Live)

Give me back my boyfr- NO! I mean- MY BODY!

T | 6k | Body Swap AU | GenDice + HifuDo

a shiba-dog hacked into my computer (not clickbait)

G | 1k | HypMic/ParaLive Crossover

3-2-1 Let's Go! Countdown to Ichiro's Birthday!

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嘘つきの賭け

E 🔞 | 6k | DaiGen

[umbraria]

TYBW cover for Daigen Masara

[poliodeuces]

i also have a couple of smut i guess i'll upload them on poipiku again...

[sasaranurude]

Linguistically I just think the way English-speaking fandoms of Japanese series (in which the media concerned has no major official translation+the fandom is small in eng spaces and so has to be more tightly knit with the jpn fandom out of necessity; not, like, BNHA or whatever where you can feasibly have your whole fandom experience in an eng bubble) will take Japanese slang or abbreviations based on English words, and then anglify those, instead of coming up with original English abbreviations, is really really interesting. It's definitely a case where using the jargon to signify your ingroup status is a part of it but I don't think you can explain the whole phenomenon with that? I don't actually know enough about linguistics to make any conclusions fghfhgh, I just know I keep seeing examples of it and it's cool to me!!!!!!!

One of the premier examples of this for me is hypmic. Because "hypmic" is not at all a normal abbreviation of Hypnosis Mic for English. Anytime an english-speaker who's not embedded in the fandom tries to abbreviate it, they almost always land on "hypnomic." (HM would be another natural one, but I think everyone realizes that that's too vague to work.) There's an aspect of that ingroup jargon to it: embedded fans just don't say hypnomic, and it marks users of that abbreviation as outsiders to the fandom. Because "hypmic" is descended from the jpn abberivation ヒプマイ hipumai. The "no" part of hypnosis isn't in the Japanese abbreviation, so it doesn't get transferred to English. Only the syllables already represented in the jpn do. Hence hypmic. The English does add a sound not present in the jpn (the c), but since it's part of the same syllable as the mai (mi), it's a more natural addition based on the jpn. (You do also see "hpmi" used in eng spaces sometimes, more straightforwardly converting each kana to one letter.)

That retaining a final consonant sound isn't necessarily consistent across different examples of this phenomenon, though! It seems it's most likely to be at the end of a word. Just to use another example: ship smushnames where the characters have non-Japanese names. Sticking with hypmic for the sake of it, you see this with Gentaro/Dice. In jpn it's だいげん daigen or げんだい gendai. In eng spaces the latter is almost always spelled "gendice", but the former doesn't really have a standardized version, and you do see both dicegen and daigen used, with maybe daigen being a little more frequent. Hilariously I think that this inconsistency has almost singlehandedly led to "gendice" being used as the "default" version of the ship name in eng spaces, as opposed to jpn spaces where "daigen" is used more frequently. (I mean I guess you could also assume that eng spaces prefer top!gentaro but I usually see people use it in a position-agnostic way, as opposed to jpn fandom where positions are srs bzns and daigen really is more popular than gendai)

AND I COULD LIST MORE EXAMPLES AND THEIR QUIRKS AND MAYBE I WILL LATER BUT I ALSO DON'T HAVE A CONCLUSION. I Just Think It's Neat. someone should do a linguistics degree master's thesis on this

[tenjin-no-shinja]

Yoshida Shrine 吉田神社

A New History of Shinto talks quite a bit about this shrine and its founder. I have quotes here and here . Yoshida Shinto is also famous for its connections with Buddhism as well.

The sign at the shrine also reads:

"In April 859, privileged aristocrat Fujiwarano Yamakage summoned four gods from Kasuga, Nara as guardian deities of Heiankyo (the ancient name for the capital Kyoto) here on Mt. Yoshida, long considered a spiritual place. Since then this shrine has attracted the deeply faithful from the Imperial Court. In 991, it became one of 19 shrines (later expanded to 22) awarded a special ritual offering from the Imperial Court.

After that, the Shinto priest Yoshida (or Urabe) Kanetomo founded this Yoshida Shinto religion ("One and Only Shinto"), built the purified place known as Daigen-gu on the mountain summit, and enjoyed vast authority in the Shinto sphere. Daigen-gu (designated an important cultural property) is dedicated to many gods and goddesses around Japan. It is believed that a visit to Daigen-gu confers the same blessings as visiting many shrines around Japan

The main shrine is believed to have been built at some time between 1648 and 1651. The precincts encompass various other shrines in addition to Paigen-gy, including Kaguraoka Shrine, which is famous for its local guardian god and lightning-arresting god: Shinyu Shrine, which is dedicated to Yoshida Kanetomo: Yamakage Shrine dedicated to the god of foodi and Kaso Shrine, dedicated to the god of sweets.

The Setsubun Festival, a traditional event intended to orive away evil spirits, is a highly popular three-day festival held annually around February."

There were of course many side shrines, and it was fascinating seeing all the different kami enshrined here. I of course continued my tradition of lighting a candle for my mom's family.

This is probably one of the most important buildings for Yoshida Shinto, despite being a side shrine. The plaque here reads:

"Saijosho-Daigengu (subordinate shrine of Yoshida Shrine)

In the "Daigengu" sanctuary the Yaoyorozu no Kami, (countless number of celestial and terrestrial deities) are enshrined. Around the sanctuary the 3,132 Shinto deities from all across Japan including the Ise Shrines, are also worshipped

Originally in the house of the Shinto priest Yoshida family, this unique assembly of Shinto deities was moved here as the main object of worship of Yoshida Shintoism, founded by Kanetomo Yoshida in 1484.

The present main Daigengu structure was built in 1601, and is designated as an Important Cultural Asset of Japan. When viewed from above the building is shaped like an octagon. The form is said to symbolize the ideals of Yoshida Shintoism, which sought to integrate Esoteric Buddhism, Confucianism, the concept of Yin-Yang and Taoism.

Since all of the Shinto deities are enshrined here, a visit to this shrine is believed to be as effective as visiting all of the Shinto shrines across Japan.

The Setsubun festival held here in the beginning of February is a very popular annual event and is crowded with worshippers."

When I arrived they were playing Gagaku music over the speakers around the shrine. I was also quite lucky to be able to experience a formal prayer being recited here.

I also got a new goshuincho here, my fourth. And the first goshu

[charlesandmiranda]

Kyoto part 1: Sushi, coffee, International Manga Museum, Imperial Palace Grounds

Once we arrived in Kyoto, Charles and I checked into our Airbnb for the duration of our trip there. Since we had decided to stay an extra day in Osaka, we had a limited amount of time in Kyoto, but we had a pretty good idea of the things we most wanted to see/do so that helped keep us on task.

The Airbnb we stayed in was an apartment in a guest house, and it was so gorgeous, even better than it looked in photos! And it was pretty inexpensive as well. We were technically in Kamigyo ward, which is a little to the west of Kyoto Imperial Palace, and northwest of Nishiki Market and the International Manga Museum, which were our main goals for our stay.

We were both pretty hungry by this point, so we checked Google maps and realized we were close to a sushi restaurant that was pretty highly rated and also still open, so we walked there. Sure enough, it was super delicious! The place was called Daigen, and it was super fantastic! I think this was actually the only sushi we had the entire trip, but it was extremely extremely good. Even though they didn't really speak any English the staff was super friendly, and the Itamae (head sushi chef) was very very funny. We briefly spoke with some other guests there, including a Japanese-Canadian family that was super into running marathons (we later noticed flyers around for a Kyoto marathon and wondered if that was what brought them into town haha). Everyone was very kind and the chef gave everyone beer when we told him it was our honeymoon and extra shochu when I showed interest.

The Itamae also took a photo with us at Daigen, super super sweet people.

The next day was our only full day in Kyoto. We slept in a little bit just to catch up on our rest, and set out to Cafe Perch for breakfast. We actually ate here on our first visit to Japan, and it left a deep impresson on us -- it was the first time we ever had like, Japanese bread? And I don't mean pan, like, small rolls of bread or buns, but like, how they do sliced bread? It's quite different from how we have it, super fluffy and THICK sliced! The coffee at this place was super amazing. They had signs EVERYWHERE that said not to take photos so we didn't, but here's a Japanese blog post we found from an Instagrammer who clearly did it anyway. Maybe it can help give a general idea of the vibe; it had a similar Showa era old school feel to Royal Cafe in Asakusa, Tokyo, that we visited earlier, but with a more informal vibe. Jazz music was playing, there were lots of live plants, and tons of art and vintage stuff to look at lining the walls.

After leaving Perch, we set out to rent bicycles to get around for the day. Japan in general supports a lot of pedestrian and bike traffic (one of the first things that really stood out to us on our first visit!) and Kyoto in particular is super easy to navigate by cycle, especially since it's super flat. Two bikes for 24 hours were 700 yen each, around $10 total. Bikes function very differently than in the US; each bike has a lock on the back tire, so the owner gave us the keys for our rentals. Kyoto is pretty flat, so most bikes are cruiser style. It is an efficient way to get around and enjoy the scenery.

Next in our day was the International Manga Museum. I kind of don't even know where to start on this one, it's exactly what it sounds like!

The entrance features shelves and shelves of manga from many countries all over the world; and further in are walls and walls of manga -- the museum also functions as a sort of library, so there are tons of desks around where you can sit and read to your heart's content while you're there. You can read anything you find, sit anywhere you find a seat, all they ask is you return it where you found the book. The main hall explains what manga is, how it is made, etc. and has huge walls of manga broken down by year it was made. There were lots of other small exhibits too. Another cool thing about this museum is that it's also a preserved local elementary school. Interspersed with the manga exhibits are displays and rooms explaining the history of the school, how it relates to the area, what a school day there may have been like, etc. Here's a main link to the International Manga Museum, and I'll probably do a seperate photo dump post for most of the photos we took there!

After the manga museum, we planned to go to the Kyoto Imperial Palace, but Charles was feeling a bit weird, so we decided to go back to our Airbnb to rest for a bit instead. After about an hour of napping, we decided to get back out there, but unfortunately, by the time we got there, the actual Imperial Palace area itself was closed, we could only walk around the grounds, which are now preserved basically as a park, including the Munakata Shrine.

These two photos were the main walk up to the Imperial Palace (the walled off area with the big gate) but it closed at 4 PM apparently. Womp womp. Still, the photos don't do it justice to how insanely huge the space is, especially the mountains off in the distance behind the palace.

These are Japanese apricot trees (we think? they also come up as Prunus Mume, which are plum blossom trees, so I'm not 1000% sure the most accurate name!)

It was a little disappointing to not get to go inside, but it was getting quite cold as the sun was going down, so we walked around the left side of the grounds before going to Nishiki Market, where we planned to get a bite to eat.

Next up, Nishiki Market! XOX0

[hanahikari]

らくがき帝幻

[khachalala]

[sassiarts]

A dump of Fling Posse art I’ve produced this year

[justanotherniky]

after the first episode of hypnosis mic my brain has only been able to think of one thing (well, two, because we got a samaichi scene) and that is gendice travelling together

and just

dice would so fall for the one bed trope

gentaro coming back from checking in like “oh daisu~ i am devastatingly sorry~ it so happens that the only room left has only one bed~ 👉👈”

dice just being confused as to why gentaro thinks that would matter to him like “man i sleep on the curb most nights what do i care”

and so they have freaky kinky passionate sex like the two gremlins they are every single night of their trip, as they should

and when it’s time to check out, gentaro just tilts his head a bit and goes “oh, by the way~ uso desu kedo~”

[umbraria]

I always wanted to do an OC

[poliodeuces]

theyre good friends having a conversation, sshh!!

full image 🔞, not explicit, but they sure do the thing

[chickin-nuggest]

Gentaro Fantasy...

[tetty-arts]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!

[8id]

The day when love came through.

想いが通じた日。

[montruocidad]