#lotuses — Public Fediverse posts
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Fashionable Battle of Frogs: I (1864) by Kawanabe Kyōsai.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6b730971-9d5f-4cd2-aea4-96dd4e3a6e52
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Fashionable Battle of Frogs: I (1864) by Kawanabe Kyōsai.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6b730971-9d5f-4cd2-aea4-96dd4e3a6e52
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Growing from muddy pond beds into beautiful flowers, lotuses have long been symbols of wisdom and renewal.
It is said that Buddha could walk from birth, and everywhere he went lotus flowers bloomed from his footprints👣There are over 800 varieties of the plant😇
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Growing from muddy pond beds into beautiful flowers, lotuses have long been symbols of wisdom and renewal.
It is said that Buddha could walk from birth, and everywhere he went lotus flowers bloomed from his footprints👣There are over 800 varieties of the plant😇
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The emperor's act of devotion worked, and his consort not only survived, but went on to succeed him as Empress Jitō (持統天皇 645-703).
Yakushi-ji originally stood beneath Mt. Miminashi in Kashihara (耳成山 橿原), site of the then capital Fujiwara-kyō (藤原京 694-710).
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The emperor's act of devotion worked, and his consort not only survived, but went on to succeed him as Empress Jitō (持統天皇 645-703).
Yakushi-ji originally stood beneath Mt. Miminashi in Kashihara (耳成山 橿原), site of the then capital Fujiwara-kyō (藤原京 694-710).
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💦THE MEDICINE BUDDHA'S LOTUSES🪷
dew from a lotus-
plenty
for morning tea
蓮の露一つもあまる朝茶哉
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1819.
Trans. David Lanoue.When his consort fell deathly sick in 680, Emperor Tenmu (天武天皇) ordered the construction of Yakushi-ji (薬師寺) as a prayer for her recovery.
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💦THE MEDICINE BUDDHA'S LOTUSES🪷
dew from a lotus-
plenty
for morning tea
蓮の露一つもあまる朝茶哉
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1819.
Trans. David Lanoue.When his consort fell deathly sick in 680, Emperor Tenmu (天武天皇) ordered the construction of Yakushi-ji (薬師寺) as a prayer for her recovery.
