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The most formal type of men's hakama, sendaihira hakama, are made of stiff, striped silk, usually black and white, or black and navy blue. These are worn with black montsuki kimono (kimono with one, three, or five family crests on the back, chest, and shoulders), white tabi (divided-toe socks), white nagajuban (under-kimono) and various types ...
People have been found to perceive images with spiritual or religious themes or import, sometimes called iconoplasms or simulacra, in the shapes of natural phenomena. The images perceived, whether iconic or aniconic , may be the faces of religious notables or the manifestation of spiritual symbols in the natural, organic media or phenomena of ...
Catholics use images, such as the crucifix, the cross, in religious life and pray using depictions of saints. They also venerate images and liturgical objects by kissing, bowing, and making the sign of the cross. They point to the Old Testament patterns of worship followed by the Hebrew people as examples of how certain places and things used ...
The English words "graven image" or "idol" in translations of the Bible may represent any of several Hebrew words. The word is pesel (פֶסֶל), translated in modern Hebrew as “sculpture” [13] indicating something carved or hewn. In subsequent passages, pesel was applied to images
' Buddha ') – A term meaning either Buddha or dead soul. While Buddhist in origin, the term is used in the second sense by all Japanese religions. [1] Hyakudoishi (百度石, lit. ' hundred-times stone ') – Sometimes present as a point of reference for the hyakudomairi near the entrance of a shrine or Buddhist temple. Hyakudomairi (百度 ...
Images of Jesus tend to show ethnic characteristics similar to those of the culture in which the image has been created. Beliefs that certain images are historically authentic, or have acquired an authoritative status from Church tradition, remain powerful among some of the faithful, in Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Roman ...
The second part of the text describes a miracle associated with this statue. In legend, a young monk one day healed the sick daughter of a wealthy man with prayers. Refusing the money offered as a thank you, he only accepted a knife and a red hakama as a reward, saying he was going back to his home in Kokawa, Kii Province. The wealthy man and ...
The Hand of God, or Manus Dei in Latin, also known as Dextera domini/dei (the "right hand of God"), is a motif in Jewish and Christian art, especially of the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods, when depiction of Yahweh or God the Father as a full human figure was considered unacceptable.