Comments on: Vote for your favorite Nara mascot http://pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/ Thu, 30 Oct 2014 02:11:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: The Rise of Japan’s Creepy-Cute Craze | Radio Free http://pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-4327400 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:07:48 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-4327400 […] their strangeness. The creepiness craze has even helped rejuvenate once unpopular characters like Sento-kun, the city of Nara’s official mascot. Many commentators deemed the deer-horned Buddha guy too […]

]]> By: stephany pena http://pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-462642 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:37:14 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-462642 Number 20 & 30 are so pretty i prefer some that are really interesting...*PEACE OUT*:)

]]> By: stephany pena http://pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-462640 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:34:09 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-462640 All of the the animals are so cute i just want to hug them....

]]> By: O que é isso?? | NewsErrado http://pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-419079 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:13:57 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-419079 [...] Prefeitura de Nara-Heijo-kyo , Pink Tentacle 1 e Pink Tentacle 2 – Nesse último link você pode conhecer o mascote escolhido pelo povo, que achou o Sento-kun [...]

]]> By: Boss http://pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-372336 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:27:02 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-372336 They're in most temple entryways, and the one with its mouth shut is Hungyo by some naming traditions.

]]> By: Pinktenticle.com « MijonjuBlog http://pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-342016 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:43:07 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-342016 [...] [...]

]]> By: Made In Tokyo » XMAS#5 http://pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-326330 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:24:16 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-326330 [...] croit pas trop. On a rencontré cette troupe à Daikanyama. Ils prétendent être la famille de Sento-kun, la charmante mascotte de la ville de Nara. Date: décembre 25, 2008 - Categorie(s): [...]

]]> By: Sento-kun's creator auctions bronze sculpture ::: Pink Tentacle http://pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-281529 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:32:25 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-281529 [...] Satoshi Yabuuchi is auctioning a limited-edition bronze statue of Sento-kun, the popular but controversial official mascot he designed for the Commemorative Events of the [...]

]]> By: SCuD http://pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-206965 Wed, 21 May 2008 23:41:10 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-206965 Umm...

1. Sento-kun is exactly what's wrong with government funding in Japan, and, it is also disrespectful.

2. Kish, no offense but your one of the reasons why the internet can not be relied on as a scholarly source. WTF does "echoes of Japan" mean anyway? 12 centuries ago "Japan" didn't even exist. That word "nihon" is a relatively knew word created by the Meji government to represent a unified country. Before that we have feudal states. Do you even know what Japanese iconography would have looked like 12 centuries ago...because if you do I'm sure all the world archeologist's trying to recreate Heijokyo and pieces of art from that period that have been lost, would love your input!

3. Great deductive work Watson! Are you a detective? You should be! No.27 is obviously the Buddhist manifestation of Shiva, and is one of the guardian (not deity) demon pair that can be seen in the main gate at Todaiji, Nara's biggest temple. Have you even been to Japan?

]]> By: kishnevi http://pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-206367 Wed, 21 May 2008 00:52:35 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/05/vote-for-your-favorite-nara-mascot/#comment-206367 I also prefer to the original. It would be better without the antlers, but it's better than any of these. These are just a bunch of cute animals, with no obvious echoes of Japan as it was twelve or thirteen centuries ago. The only ones I would consider are 27, which I'm assuming is meant to remind us of Buddhist deities or wrathful spirits, and 28, which to my eye looks like a cute penguin dressed up as an ancient Japanese official.

I can only imagine what Sei Shonagon would have done if she had seen them. Put it on a list of ten bad plebiean customs, perhaps. She probably wouldn't like the official mascot, either, but at least it would have for her the virtue of being the official mascot.

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