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Annual daruma market

MAEBASHI, Japan - Customers look at daruma dolls, said to bring good luck, during the annual New Year's daruma doll market event at Shorinzan Darumaji temple in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, on Jan. 6, 2011. The origin of the market dates back around 200 years to when a priest taught starving farmers how to craft dolls, modeled after Zen founder Bodhidharma, to sell them.

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(HKSAR 25)CHINA-HONG KONG PALACE MUSEUM-EXHIBITS (CN)

(220628) -- HONG KONG, June 28, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on June 28, 2022 shows the exhibit "Bodhidharma crossing the river" to be displayed at the Hong Kong Palace Museum in Hong Kong, south China. The Hong Kong Palace Museum will open to the public on July 2, with opening exhibitions jointly curated with the Palace Museum in Beijing. More than 900 treasures from the collection of the mainland's Palace Museum, including 166 first-class cultural relics of China, will be put on display on rotation at the opening exhibitions. (Xinhua/Wang Shen)

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Woman hanging kakejiku,a hanging scroll

A young woman wearing a furisode with hair done in takashimada style shows a middle-aged man a Bodhidharma scroll. It may be a dramatized photo of a geisha showing her knowledge off to her patron. The man has an emblems on his kimono and a muffler, and holds his hands over the brazier.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐8‐0]

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Annual daruma market

MAEBASHI, Japan - Customers look at daruma dolls, said to bring good luck, during the annual New Year's daruma doll market event at Shorinzan Darumaji temple in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, on Jan. 6, 2011. The origin of the market dates back around 200 years to when a priest taught starving farmers how to craft dolls, modeled after Zen founder Bodhidharma, to sell them. (Kyodo)

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Council recommends Sesshu painting be named national treasure

TOKYO, Japan - The Cultural Council advised the culture minister on March 19 to designate a painting by Sesshu (in photo released by the council), a famed Japanese painter in the 15th century, as national treasures along with three other historic artworks. Sesshu, a monk known as master of ink and brush, created the painting titled ''Hui Ke Offering His Arm to Bodhidharma'' at the age of 77 in 1496. Hui Ke was a pupil of Bodhidharma who initiated Zen Buddhism. The painting is now at Sainenji Temple in Aichi Prefecture. (Kyodo)