Sokushinbutsu

Sokushinbutsu, Budaya Paling Unik Dari Jepang

Satu lagi budaya unik, fakta unik sekaligus misteri manusia dari jepang. Tersebar dibagian utara Jepang dua lusin mumi biarawan Jepang dikenal sebagai Sokushinbutsu. Pengikut Shugendo, bentuk kuno agama Buddha, para biarawan mati dan mengawetkan diri seindiri dalam usaha penyangkalan diri dan memperoleh kedudukan mulia di surga.

Praktek ini pertama dipelopori oleh seorang pastor bernama Kuukai lebih dari 1000 tahun yang lalu di kompleks candi gunung Koya di Prefektur Wakayama. Kuukai adalah pendiri dari sekte Shingon Buddhisme, yaitu sekte yang datang dengan ide pencerahan melalui hukuman fisik. Ada tiga langkah dalam proses mumifikasi itu dan proses lengkap mengambil sepuluh tahun ke atas menyebabkan mumifikasi sukses.

Langkah pertama adalah perubahan diet. Imam hanya diisinkan untuk makan kacang-kacangan dan biji di hutan sekitarnya yang ditemukan di kuil sejarah, diet ini harus ketat untuk jangka waktu 1000 hari atau 3 tahun. Selama waktu ini, imam menjalani sendiri segala macam kesulitan fisik dalam pelatihan hariannya. Hasilnya adalah lemak tubuh imam akan terkuras habis, sehingga tubuh akan terurai dengan mudah setelah kematian.

Dalam tahap kedua, diet lebih dibatasi lagi. Imam diisinkan untuk hanya makan sejumlah kecil kulit dan akar dari pohon pinus yang telah dikeraskan selama 1000 hari sebelumnya, pada akhir tahap ini imam tampak seperti kerangka hidup. Penurunan overall ini juga termasuk dalam kelembaban tubuh, dan cairan berkurang di dalam tubuh, sehingga tubuh lebih mudah untuk diawetkan.
Menjalani bagian akhir 1000 ini Imam juga harus mulai minum teh khusus yang dibuat dari getah pohon Urushi. Getah ini adalah Digunakan untuk membuat pernis untuk mangkuk dan mebel. Teh ini sangat beracun bagi kebanyakan orang. Minum teh ini menyebabkan imam muntah, berkeringat, dan buang air kecil, sehingga lebih mengurangi isi cairan tubuh.

Langkah terakhir dari proses tersebut, imam akan ditempatkan hidup-hidup di ruang batu yang cukup besar bagi seorang pria untuk duduk dengan gaya teratai di untuk jangka waktu 1000 hari terakhir. Selama proses ini dibuat tabung saluran udara kedalam gua batu dan imam setiap hari membunyikan bel pertanda masih hidup, dan ketika bel akhirnya berhenti berbunyi, tabung udara dikeluarkan dan makam ditutup. Ketika makam akhirnya terbuka hasilnya akan diketahui, sudah jadi mummi.

Pemerintah Jepang melarang Sokushunbutsu di akhir abad 19, meskipun demikian praktek ini terus bertahan hingga abad 20.

Source: http://q-bonk.com/sokushinbutsu-budaya-paling-unik-dari-jepang/

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Death Note In Film Version

       In the film, a few changes were made to the character. At the film's beginning, Light is a first-year law student at a university, instead of still being in high school as in the beginning of the manga and anime. Light's motives differ; in this version, he uses the Death Note out of frustration from the perceived failures of the Japanese justice system. Light, prior to his discovery of the Death Note, hacks into the government database and finds that the government secretly acknowledges that it is unable to prosecute many criminals. Light discovers the Death Note in an alley during a rainy night after encountering Takuo Shibuimaru in a club and throwing a law book into the rain in a fit of rage. Light meets Ryuk after killing Shibuimaru. Light has a girlfriend, Shiori Akino, who attends his university. Light kills her at the end of the first movie by controllling someone to murder her then commit suicide, to gain sympathy from the investigation team so he would be allowed to join them.

       As in the manga, Light relinquishes ownership of the Death Note in order to prove his innocence. He gives the notebook to Kiyomi Takada. After Takada is caught, Light kills her to recover the Death Note. L states that he will test the 13-Day Rule. Rem, knowing that this will reveal Misa's identity as the 2nd Kira, writes both L's and Watari's names in the Death Note. Light then proceeds to write his father's name in the book, manipulating his father to return the confiscated Death Note.

       Light confronts his father, but Soichiro does not die. The investigation team members, including L, reveal themselves. Having already written his own name in the Death Note, thus negating Rem's actions, L tells Light that he had just written in a fake note.

       Light tries to write on a hidden piece of Death Note, but Matsuda shoots him. Light tells Ryuk to write the team's names, promising to show him many interesting things, and begins to laugh. He stops, however, when Ryuk shows him that he had written just one name: Light's. Light tries to stop Ryuk, but merely passes right through him. As Light begins to succumb to the effects of the Death Note, Ryuk takes this opportunity to reveal to him that humans that have used the Death Note are barred from entering either Heaven or Hell, instead spending eternity in nothingness. Light dies in his father's arms, begging him to believe that he acted as Kira to put justice, which Soichiro had taught him since his childhood, into practice. The film concludes one year later, on Light's birthday. Sayu fetches Soichiro and says that Kira helped reduce crime rates, however, she says that she does not support Kira as Light was killed by Kira (which is what Soichiro told her). Light is portrayed by Tatsuya Fujiwara, known for his role as Shuya Nanahara of Battle Royale.

Kenichi Matsuyama, the actor who played L in the film series, said that Light and L are "extremely" alike in that they have "a very strong sense of justice".

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Death Note

Categories: anime, drama, live action, mystery, shounen, supernatural, tragedy

Author: Ohba Tsugumi

Artist: Obata Takeshi

Original Publisher: Shueisha

US Publisher: Viz Media

Start Date: 2000

Chapters: 111 - completed

Summary

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal... or his life?

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