Okiagari koboshi
The 起き上がり 小 法師 (okiagari koboshi, little monk always-on-foot?) Is a Japanese traditional dolls, or your p almost spherical and its center of gravity, always return to their original position after being pushed. This feature of the dolls okiagari-koboshi symbolizes perseverance, optimism and determination.
The best known of these figures is ダルマ (Daruma) representing 达磨 ( Bodhidharma).
Daruma This figure of wood or paper mache, which is the representation of Daruma, his eyes blank, according to tradition must make a wish while you paint the first eye, paint the other once our desire is made the doll and burn below, but many keep it to remember how to fulfill your wishes or the effort to achieve it.
This ritual of filling the eyes is called 开眼 供养 ( kuyo Kaige, the opening ceremony of the eye) and the annual burning takes place in the Setsubun (January 18, last day of the year in the Japanese tradition) is the Dairyu-ji. Other times when using this type of dolls is on birthdays or some national holidays, including some political parties tend to follow the ritual of election season.
Daruma size varies according to what we'd like, you can be the size of a tennis ball (like mine) or a beach ball (the librarian of the Japanese Garden of Buenos Aires should have asked for anything big, because it has one meter in diameter).
Daruma's story
बोधिधम (Bodhidharma, Dharma the Enlightened One), 菩提 达摩 (Puti Da Mo) for the Chinese or simply ダルマ (Daruma) for the Japanese, was the 28th Patriarch of Buddhism, heir to Siddhartha Gautama (better known in the West as Buddha .) I travel from India to China carrying the Buddha's teaching and to create temples and monasteries.
Bodhidharma Once in China founded several temples throughout the empire and eventually settled in what is now the Shaolin Temple in Henan province. Preach the words of Buddha I think the school 禅 (Chan), who came to Japan as 禅 (Zen) . From here on there are several legends and stories about one of them (which I like) is that he retired to a cave near the temple and meditated for nine years. During the trance he had many misfortunes, was bitten by mosquitoes, attacked by wolves, etc, but nothing of it out of his reverie. After nine years of immobility lost arms and legs and still ongoing. For this very reason, the Daruma doll is so many things, without arms and legs always "up", if put side rises.
who make a wish for Daruma, the end will see it fulfilled, but not before fighting with optimism, dedication and hard work.
Painting the second eye of a Daruma Sources: wikipedia.org, tetsuo.lamatriz.org, Ms. Lin.
Photos / Pictures: wikipedia.org, David Bull, Roy Gypsy
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