Echizen

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Sep 22, 2026

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Exotics and Retrospectives-Lafcadio Hearn

Sep 22 · 2 Mentions

Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR

62:05

Centuries ago, places were noted as pleasure resorts solely because of this melodious attraction.

Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR

62:11

Such were Musashino, now Tokyo, Yatano in the province of Echizen, and Mano in the province of Omi.

Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR

62:20

Somewhat later, probably, people discovered that each of the principal species of singing insects haunted by preference some particular locality, where its peculiar chanting could be heard to the best advantage, and eventually no less than eleven places became famous throughout Japan for different kinds of insect music.

Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR

62:39

The best places to hear the matsumushi were, one, Arashiyama near Kyoto in the province of Yamashiro, two, Sumiyoshi in the province of Settsu, three, Mayagino in the province of Mutsu.

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Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR

70:49

One of the guild known as Mushi-ya Kojiro, Kojiro the insect merchant, who did business in Honjo-ku, returning to the city after a short visit to his native place in Kazusa, brought back with him a number of Kirigirisou which he sold at a good profit.

Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR

71:08

Although long famous elsewhere, these insects had never before been sold in Yedo.

Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR

71:13

When Mizu Echizen-no-kami, says the chronicle, became Machi-bugyo, or chief magistrate, of Yedo, the law limiting the number of insect dealers to 36 was abolished.

Marianne SpiegelNARRATOR

71:26

Whether the guild was subsequently dissolved, the chronicle fails to mention.

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Kottō being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs-Lafcadio Hearn

Sep 22 · 1 Mention

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36:40

End of footnote.

speaker_21NARRATOR

36:43

On the death of Nomoto Yajiemon, a daikan in the province of Echizen, footnote a daikon was a district governor under the direct control of the shogunate his functions were both civil and judicial his clerks entered into a conspiracy to defraud the family of their late master Under pretext of paying some of the daikon's debts, they took possession of all the money, valuables, and furniture in his house, and they furthermore prepared a false report to make it appear that he had unlawfully contracted obligations exceeding the worth of his state.

speaker_21NARRATOR

37:27

This false report they sent to the Saicho, and the Saicho, thereupon, issued a decree banishing the widow and the children of Nomoto from the province of Ichizen.

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37:40

footnote the saicho was a high official of the shogunate with duties corresponding to those of a prime minister footnote for in those times the family of a daikan were held in part responsible even after his death for any malfeasance proved against him But at the moment when the order of banishment was officially announced to the widow of Nomoto, a strange thing happened to a maidservant in the house.

Castlemaine Zen Podcast

The Bodhisattva's Four Methods of Guidance

Sep 20 · 2 Mentions

Kynan SutherlandHOST

13:47

It was pretty rotten, pretty distressing.

Kynan SutherlandHOST

13:52

And even though Dogen managed to put up with this and try and endure this for around 16 years, He was finally so saddened, so heartbroken about this kind of menacing of what was sincere practice that he took up an invitation to begin all over again in a remote province called Echizen, which was about five days walk away, right up to the northeast.

Kynan SutherlandHOST

14:20

So this was a huge move for him and his community.

Kynan SutherlandHOST

14:25

They'd never done anything like this before.

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Kynan SutherlandHOST

35:38

There's no other.

Kynan SutherlandHOST

35:39

There's nothing being carved out of this ringing universe.

Kynan SutherlandHOST

35:47

So these four These four methods of guidance were exactly what the monks and Dogen did carry with them as they made their way for those long five days up to the remote Echizen province.

Kynan SutherlandHOST

36:03

And it's there that they built what is now the most famous temple in Japan, Iheiji.

The Unfinished Print : A Mokuhanga Podcast

Paul Denhoed - Paper Educator & Paper Maker : The Economy of Scale

Sep 17 · 1 Mention

Paul DenhoedGUEST

24:05

And, um, that to me is, is super fascinating, and, uh, uh, part of the reason like I like to go to all the different studios around, uh, workshops around Japan is to talk to paper makers about those sort of subtle differences and how they achieve those subtle differences.

Andrzej ZadoroznyHOST

24:23

differences.So in this case, in Ehime, is this a rare space in Japan at the moment, this type, type of paper? Because we all know that Awagami, Echizen tend to be the bigger names when it comes, at least in the West, at least in my experience-

Paul DenhoedGUEST

24:38

Yeah

Andrzej ZadoroznyHOST

24:38

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