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Hot springs are one of the great joys of life in Japan!
ONSEN 温泉 . おんせん
Here are some photos of our travels.
Osorezan, Shimokita hantoo
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Furo Fushi ... No Old Age, No Death
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My Furo Fushi Onsen Photos
the best way
to a long life ...
my life in Japan
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A hot waterfall at Kawaharage
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hot waterfall
in the middle of nowhere ...
my life in Japan
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Magoroku Onsen
by the raging river
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温泉猿 Monkeys sitting in the Hot Springs !
Monkey Business in Hot Water
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Areas of Japan where hot water and steam are coming out of the ground are often called "hell" jigoku 地獄.
Some onsen villages even have a special deity to protect their area,
Jigoku Myoojin ”地獄明神”(Jigoku Myojin).
Myoojin no yu 明神の湯 Hot Spring of Myojin
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Others have a statue of Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of healing, onsen Yakushi 温泉薬師.
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子どもらが雪喰ながら湯治かな
kodomora ga yuki kui nagara tooji kana
children eat snow
soaking
in the hot spring
Kobayashi Issa at Yudanaka 湯田中温泉
Tr. David Lanoue
Issa often visited this hot spring near to his home, sometimes making it a long stay (tooji). He even wrote a "Hot Spring Diary" onsen no ki 温泉の記 in the year 文政５年 (1822).
貧しきものゝ子をやしなふには、湯のわく所にしくはあらじ。夜のほのぼの明て、烏の声と等しくがば（と）起て、十ばかりなる児の頭として、兄は弟を負ひ、姉は妹を抱きつゝ、素足にて門を出れば、それに引つゞきて迹からも其迹からも走り走りて、湯桁にとび入りつゝ、今玄冬素雪のころさへ丸裸にて狂ひ育ちにそだつ物から、おのづから病なく、ふとくたくましく見ゆ。さるから其親其親の衣着せる思ひもうすかるべし.
source : michiko328
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26 July is "Rotenburo Day" 露天風呂の日
"goroawase" (number wordplay):
(6 = ro) ( ・ = ten) (2 = bu) (6 = ro)
6・26 = "rotenburo"
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Hot Springs called DARUMA
WASHOKU
Onsen Tamago 温泉卵 eggs boiled in onsen water
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1/03/2009
Hot Spring Onsen
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Matsuo Basho at Yamanaka Hot Spring - Oku no Hosomichi
湯の名残り幾度見るや霧のもと
yu no nagori iku tabi miru ya kiri no moto
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湯の名残り今宵は肌の寒からん
湯の名残今宵は肌の寒からむ
yu no nagori koyoi wa hada no samukaran
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Matsuo Basho at Nasu - Oku no Hosomichi
湯をむすぶ誓ひも同じ石清水
yu o musubu chikai mo onaji iwashimizu
to be bound
by the same pledge
with Iwashimizu
Tr. Gabi Greve
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Masaoka Shiki
寒けれど酒もあり温泉もある処
samukeredo sake mo ari yu mo aru tokoro
It is cold, but
we have sake
and the hot spring
There are hot springs named Fudo 不動温泉
or Fudo Yu 不動湯
and
there are Fudo statues near not springs 温泉不動.
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Kobayashi Issa
涼風に欠序の湯治哉
suzukaze ni akubi tsuide no tooji kana
cool breeze—
he yawns in the hot
healing bath
(Tr. David Lanoue)
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Legends densetsu
about Onsen Hot Springs 温泉と伝説
Kobayashi Issa
此おくに山湯ありとやかんこ鳥
kono oku ni yamayu ari to ya kankodori
"In these wilds
there's a hot spring!"
mountain cuckoo
I picture the bird reporting this information to Issa-- and so I have translated the first two phrases as a quotation.
A "mountain hot spring" (yamayu) is nearby. I translate this simply as "hot spring" because my English for kankodori("mountain cuckoo") already has the word "mountain in it," suggesting the location.
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David Lanoue
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Kobayashi Issa
山の湯やだぶりだぶりと日の長き
yama no yu ya daburi-daburi to ni no nagaki
a mountain hot bath
slish-slosh...
a long day
Daburi-daburi ("slish-slosh") seems to be a variant of tabu-tabu/taburi to: the movement of water or liquid that is filled to the brim; see Kogo dai jiten (Shogakukan 1983) 1020.
In this haiku the length of the day doesn't seem a negative thing.
David Lanoue
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ま ご ろ く
く ろ ご ま
ma go ro ku
ku ro go ma
黒ゴマ black seseme !
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Keiunkan - the oldest Hot Spring in Japan
Keiunkan is located in Yamanashi Prefecture, the same region as the World Heritage-listed Mt. Fuji. View the grand sight of Japan's greatest sacred mountain, Mt. Fuji, while you make your way to the world's longest-standing inn, Keiunkan.
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https://www.keiunkan.co.jp/en/
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