What do Stonehenge and Kamisado have in common?
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Stonehenge (game) Stonehenge is the first anthology board game. It was released in June 2007 by Paizo Publishing under their Titanic Games imprint. Five game designers, Richard Garfield, Richard Borg, James Ernest, Bruno Faidutti, and Mike Selinker, were given the same set of game materials and each created their own game using those components.
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Kamisado Kamisado is an abstract strategy board game for two players that's played on an 8x8 multicoloured board. Each player controls a set of eight octagonal dragon tower pieces. Each player’s set of dragon towers contains a tower to match each of the colours that appear on the squares of the board (i.e., a brown tower, a green tower, etc.). One player’s towers have gold dragons mounted on the top, while the other player’s towers are topped with black dragons.
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Hase-dera (Kamakura) Hase-dera (海光山慈照院長谷寺 , Kaikō-zan Jishō-in Hase-dera ) , commonly called the Hase-kannon (長谷観音 ) is one of the Buddhist temples in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, famous for housing a massive wooden statue of Kannon.
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Kunisawa Shinkurō Kunisawa Shinkurō (国沢新九郎 ) (1848–1877) was a pioneer of Western-style painting in early Meiji Japan. Born to a retainer of the Tosa Domain, he studied in England under John Edgar Williams, before opening the Shōgidō (彰技堂 ) art school in 1874, upon his return to Japan. His students include Honda Kinkichirō ( ) , Morizumi Isana ( ) , and Asai Chū.
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Coade stone Coade stone or Lithodipyra (Ancient Greek ("λίθος"/"δίς"/"πυρά"), "stone fired twice") was stoneware that was often described as an artificial stone in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was used for moulding Neoclassical statues, architectural decorations and garden ornaments that were both of the highest quality and remain virtually weatherproof today. Produced by appointment to George III and the Prince Regent, it features on St George's Chapel, Windsor; The Royal Pavilion, Brighton; Carlton House, London; the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; and a large quantity was used in the refurbishment of Buckingham Palace in the 1820s.
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An'yō-in (Kamakura) Gionzan An’yō-in Chōraku-ji (祇園山安養院長楽寺 ) is a Jōdo shū Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. Famous for its rhododendrons, it was named after its founder's (great historical figure Hōjō Masako) posthumous name. The main object of worship is Amida Nyorai, but it also enshrines Senju Kannon, Goddess of Mercy. An’yō-in is Number three of the 33 temples of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage circuit.
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Shinbutsu-shūgō Shinbutsu-shūgō (神仏習合 literally "syncretism of kami and buddhas"), also called Shinbutsu-konkō (神仏混淆 literally jumbling up or contamination of kami and buddhas), is the syncretism of Buddhism and kami worship that was Japan's only organized religion up until the Meiji period. Beginning in 1868, the new Meiji government approved a series of laws that separated Japanese native kami worship, on one side, from Buddhism which had assimilated it, on the other.
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Kamidana Kamidana (神棚 , "kami-dana" , lit. "god-shelf") are miniature household altars provided to enshrine a Shinto "kami". They are most commonly found in Japan, the home of "kami" worship.
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Kamiizumi Castle Kamiizumi Castle (上泉城 , Kamiizumi-jō ) was a Japanese castle located in the province of Kōzuke during the early Sengoku period of Japanese history. Throughout the course of the period, the castle was controlled by the father of the famous swordsman Kamiizumi Hidetsuna, whose name is unknown. It is known that Hidetsuna's father made sure that Hidetsuna was very well versed in the ways of "bujutsu" (martial arts), in which he thoroughly trained his son many times near his castle. Through his father's training, Hidetsuna soon on became a master of the spear and sword.
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Hatakeyama Shigeyasu Hatakeyama Rokurō Shigeyasu (畠山 六郎 重保 ) was a Kamakura period warrior who fell victim of political intrigue in 1205. The grave under a "tabu no ki" tree near the Yuigahama end of Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan and next to Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū's first torii (Ichi no Torii) is traditionally supposed to be his. The relationship between the grave and Hatakeyama Shigeyasu is, the traditional attribution notwithstanding, unclear. The reasons for the attribution are probably that it lies within the former Hatakeyama estate, and that Shigeyasu is known to have been killed in battle by Hōjō soldiery in Yuigahama.
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Japanese rock garden The Japanese rock garden (枯山水 , "karesansui" ) or "dry landscape" garden, often called a zen garden, creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water. A zen garden is usually relatively small, surrounded by a wall, and is usually meant to be seen while seated from a single viewpoint outside the garden, such as the porch of the "hojo", the residence of the chief monk of the temple or monastery. Classical zen gardens were created at temples of Zen Buddhism in Kyoto during the Muromachi period. They were intended to imitate the intimate essence of nature, not its actual appearance, and to serve as an aid to meditation about the true meaning of life.
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Ishibashi Park Ishibashi Park (石橋記念公園 , Ishibashi Kinen Kōen ) is a park in Hama-machi, Kagoshima, Japan. At the end of the Edo period (late 19th century), local lord Shimazu Shigehide had five bridges, collectively called the "Gosekkyō" ("five stone bridges"), built across the Kōtsuki River. Two of them collapsed in floods in 1993. The remaining three were moved to a new location and restored. Ishibashi Park consists of these three bridges and a museum.
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Stone Castle Stone Castle is a castle at Stone, near Bluewater in Kent, England. It was built between 1135 and 1140 on the site where William the Conqueror signed a treaty with the men of Kent in 1067.
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Stonehenge Limestone The Stonehenge Limestone is a geologic formation in Maryland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.
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Cheongsando Cheongsando(hangul: 청산도) is an island off the south coast of the Republic of Korea, being the main island of Cheongsan-myeon, Wando County, South Jeolla Province. Accompanied by the four inhabited islands of Daemodo, Somodo, Yeoseodo, and Jangdo and several uninhabited island, it is called Cheongsando ('green mountain island') because it remains green through four seasons. It has long been called Seonsan or Seonwon in that the Taoist hermit dwells on the island because of the beautiful view which creates a harmony with the clear and blue archipelago.
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Kamo Shrine Kamo Shrine (賀茂神社 , Kamo-jinja ) is a general term for an important Shinto sanctuary complex on both banks of the Kamo River in northeast Kyoto. It is centered on two shrines. The two shrines, an upper and a lower, lie in a corner of the old capital which was known as the "devil's gate" (鬼門 , kimon ) due to traditional geomancy beliefs that the north-east corner brought misfortune. Because the Kamo River runs from the north-east direction into the city, the two shrines along the river were intended to prevent demons from entering the city.
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Zendo Zen-dō (禅堂 ) () or "senbutsu-jō" (選仏場 ) is a Japanese "meditation hall". In Zen Buddhism, the "zen-dō" is a spiritual "dōjō" where zazen (sitting meditation) is practiced. A full-sized Zen Buddhist temple will typically have at least one "zen-dō" as well as a "hon-dō" ("main hall", but sometimes translated as "Buddha hall"), which is used for ceremonial purposes, plus a variety of other buildings with different functions. However, any place where people go to practice Zen can be referred to as a "zen-dō".
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Ryōan-ji Ryōan-ji (Shinjitai: 竜安寺, Kyūjitai: 龍安寺 , "The Temple of the Dragon at Peace") is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism. The Ryōan-ji garden is considered one of the finest surviving examples of "kare-sansui" ("dry landscape"), a refined type of Japanese Zen temple garden design generally featuring distinctive larger rock formations arranged amidst a sweep of smooth pebbles (small, carefully selected polished river rocks) raked into linear patterns that facilitate meditation. The temple and its gardens are listed as one of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Mystical Horizons Mystical Horizons, located near Carbury, North Dakota on the Scenic Byway on North Dakota Highway 43 near the North Dakota and Manitoba border, is intended to represent a 21st-century Stonehenge. It consists of six pink granite walls of varying heights that also function as a working solar calendar. The structure was built in 2005.
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Niten Ichi-ryū Niten Ichi-ryū (二天一流 ) , which can be loosely translated as "the school of the strategy of two heavens as one", is a koryū (ancient school), transmitting a style of classical Japanese swordsmanship conceived by the warrior Miyamoto Musashi. Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū is mainly known for the two-sword—katana and wakizashi—kenjutsu techniques Musashi called "Niten Ichi" (二天一, "two heavens as one") or "Nitō Ichi" (二刀一, "two swords as one").
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Kamień Kamień (Polish for "stone") may refer to:
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Kenchō-ji Kenchō-ji (建長寺) is a Rinzai Zen temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, which ranks first among Kamakura's so-called Five Great Zen Temples (the "Kamakura Gozan") and is the oldest Zen training monastery in Japan. These temples were at the top of the Five Mountain System, a network of Zen temples started by the Hōjō Regents. Still very large, it originally had a full shichidō garan and 49 subtemples.