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Update: These two Double spouted sake ewer
(Ryōguchi chōshi 両口銚子) are up for auction in JP,
[we're not bidding alas 😔 need save our pennies for typesetting 📌] here's the link in case anyone is interested:
auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b...

Two facing pages from the book on health with illustrations of a shirtless man doing stretches. On the R, his hands are behind his head, elbows out, and he's leaning to the side. On the L, his arms are raised about his head, hands facing out, with his head turned slightly. He looks like he's having a great time!

In my offline life, I'm trying to stretch more by following yoga videos most mornings, but if I'd been alive in the Ming & Qing, I would need a book like this!

萬壽僊書 via ANU library, openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/f57a10... (v3 has the illustrations!)

#WoodblockWednesday

@thianun.bsky.social
Have we got the book for you ⁉️ 😎

With Lord Ganesha his elephant trunk points mostly to the left, if it it depicted pointing to the right it requires daily worship or risk his displeasure !

Right —vs—Left hand up… any idea which is more common/ traditional ❓

picture showing a sculpture of a baby. he is standing upright and raises his left hand in the air. This is more or less the traditional Chinese iconography of the Gautama Buddha as a baby.

天上天下，唯我獨尊,

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🎉This week we celebrate the 5th 🎂 birthday release of our

❝Methods of "Nourishing the Vital Principle" in the Ancient Daoist Religion❞

by Henri Maspero

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A tiré à part of Book IX of Maspero’s seminal work
❝Taoism and Chinese Religion❞
also available at QP (2014)

What's in a name ¿

The National Gallery of Victoria has a
Double spouted sake ewer
(Ryōguchi chōshi 両口銚子)

www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/coll...

Amazing what one can find once the name is known !
(searched for images with 両口 銚子 )

A few months ago I got to go to a Bukubuku tea ぶくぶく茶 event at Namin (Naminoue) Shrine in Naha, Okinawa. The preservation society was in charge and it showcased ingredients and books related to the tea. It was a lovely experience!

*bare, being shy, she said bare…

I much can a Koala bear ⁉️
【she asked】
❴my answer has always been ❝The weight of her own fur !❞ 😎❵

OK... got it

Seems a toss-up for the CN between 銚子 as
diàozi and/or yáo zi
Except here the Grand Ricci makes no sense to have "hoe" for yáo zi ¿

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presumably this kind of thing that is used for boiling up TCM

Last post for the day on these sake vessels…
from
sake.science/%E3%81%8A%E9...
seems single and double spouted distinction is
ryokuchi 両口 【りょうくち】double spout chôshi 銚子
katakuchi片口 【かたくち】single spout chôshi 銚子

found this at
www.gekkeikan.co.jp/enjoy/cultur...
also interesting detail for the single and double spout varients‼️ The CN 銚/吊/弔子 diàozi pot seems to have been used used in decocting medical herbs, the Grand Ricci gives the 弔子 variant simply as a "Bouilloire" [pot for boiling].

Slow Monday 🧠… I see now that originally chōshi 銚子 is a sake vessel with a long handle and a spout
Modern use seems to be more generic "a sake holder" as my Kenkyusha Dic. has it
Presumably from CN diaozi 銚子/吊子 which the HYDCD defines as "A small pot with a handle and a spout."
🙏

Another, last one for today, also by Chikanobu
A Young Bride
Series; Ladies' Etiquette Pictures

Another Chikanobu (1838 - 1912) Woodblock print with the same implement
Sweet Sake on New Year's Day
Series: Women's Life in Chiyoda Castle

Date: 1895

Yet another Chikanobu print with such a sake serving ladle, this one somewhat more composed !

Artist: Chikanobu Yoshu (1838-1912)
Title: Sake Ceremony
Series: The Outer Palace of Chiyoda
Publisher: Fukuda Hatsujiro
Date: 1897

here is a Meiji woodblock print by Toyohara Chikanobu showing such a sake serving implement (rather not a ritualistic usage of said implement !–)

I assume they are for some kind or ritual, possibly wedding, the teshoku 手燭 candlestick shape is captivating... I wonder if overfilling the vessels could pour two cups of sake at the same-time 🍶🤲

I also like the faces hidden in the obscurity of the unfocused background, peering on the glass eye that watches and captivates…

Upon seeing the wide-eyed gaze of this innocent schoolgirl, her tousled hair framing a face filled with quiet curiosity and unspoken stories from a distant classroom, I had to put my camera down. In that moment of stillness, I reflected on the fleeting nature of my own life—the privileges, the cultures fading away before my eyes, and how a single child's unfiltered expression can cut through the lens to remind us of our shared humanity.

Upon seeing the wide-eyed gaze of this innocent schoolgirl, her tousled hair framing a face filled with quiet curiosity and unspoken stories from a distant classroom, I had to put my camera down. In that moment of stillness, I reflected on the fleeting nature of my own life—the privileges, the cultures fading away before my eyes, and how a single child's unfiltered expression can cut through the lens to remind us of our shared humanity.

When I met the wide-eyed gaze of this schoolgirl—her tousled hair, her face alive with quiet curiosity—I lowered my camera. In that instant, her unguarded innocence shattered my detachment, reminding me of the fleeting privileges we take for granted and the fragile beauty of our shared humanity.

There is a set of double spouted sake vessel 酒器 in Wajima-nuri 輪島塗 lacquerware for sale on the web, 🙏 does anyone know if there is a specific name for such vessels that seem inspired by the tripod candle stick holders of Japan ❓

Is that
清淡湖 or 平緩湖
aka Lake Placid 😎

Brava 😍

#DarioFo died on this day 13 October 2016
The closing lines to his play:

"Accidental Death of an Anarchist"

echoes ever louder

❝We are in the turds up to our necks, it's true, and that's precisely why we walk with our heads held high❗️❞

Why indeed 🙃
At the very least they could invite all to at least sample the teas 👀