Wind Chimes

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　 Wind Chimes (fuurin) Japan 　

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Location: Japan

Season: Summer

Category: Humanities

Explanation:

http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/maruyosi/kaeru.5.jpg

Japanese Wind Chimes are made from cast iron, glass or pottery and come in many shapes and forms.

The wind bell is not expressing sounds, it is expressing the fact that "the wind is blowing."

On a hot summer's day, a wind bell hanging from the eaves facing the garden alerts people inside to the presence of the wind blowing. The person inside thinks, "Ah, the wind's blowing" (which contains the image of cooling off), and expecting a breeze to blow into the room momentarily, the skin's sensitivity unconsciously heightens slightly. The wind chime commands their senses and imagination to savor this information from the outside world.

Some bells have a little slip of paper attached with a short wish or prayer (tansaku), which is send to the gods anytime the bell sounds – which can be quite often in a storm!

Sometimes they are called

Zen Garden Bells
A fuurin is a small Japanese windchime, traditionally hung from the eaves of a house or tree branches. Let light breezes sound them. In the stifling summer heat, a jingle from these bells mean cool breezes. This link shows a et of six cast iron bells includes two different temple bells, a goldfish bell, a cherry blossom bell, a beehive bell and a leaf bell. Buy one here:

http://www.oocities.org/paper_lanterns1/windchimes_gongs.html

Here is a great collection of Glas Wind chimes from Maruyoshi, mostly in the form of Daruma san.

http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/maruyosi/daruma.htm

Most of the Daruma Wind Chimes are also in this Photo Album:

http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/gabigreve2000/album?.dir=/56a3&

Unfortunately I can not quote the separate links of the Maruyoshi page, you have to click on the buttons on the left side of this index page.

Look at some more pictures:

http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/maruyosi/akadama.3.jpg

http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/maruyosi/kingyo.5.jpg

http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/maruyosi/f.yakko.jpg

http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/maruyosi/index.htm

Collection of Maruyoshi Chimes from The Edo Period to Now

江戸風鈴について

How the chimes are made

江戸風鈴の制作方法

A lot of very nice chimes of other decorations

商品の紹介
商品の紹介・2

To hang on a wall or with a stand

商品・卓上型・壁掛け型

Here is a special one.

A wooden Daruma in Kokeshi-Tradition with a cast-iron bell in the Nambu-Tradition of Morioka, Northern Japan, as wind-chime.

http://kijidaruma.com/bin/shop/goods_detail.cgi?CategoryID=000017&GoodsID=00000105

Wind Chime Festival at Nishi-Arai Daishi Temple

The Daruma chime of this temple is made of cast-iron.

http://www.nishiaraidaishi.or.jp/jp/news/p0021.html

http://www.nishiaraidaishi.or.jp/jp/daishi/index.html

http://www.ayomi.co.jp/kiji/200407/200407kiji/017.htm

Wind Chime Festival at Kawasaki Daishi Temple

This is quite a famous festival in Kawasaki, about 1 hour south of Tokyo and one of the most famous temples in honor of Kooboo Daishi in the area. The Wind Chime Festival is one of the yearly events.

With a lot of photos