Blessed Wearable Blankets all obtain prayers that wearers will go their entrance exams.
Some folks would possibly describe the present climate in Japan as invigoratingly crisp, but it surely gained’t be lengthy till it’s chilly sufficient that staying in mattress all day, wrapped in your heat blankets, goes to really feel like a really tempting plan. Sadly, the chilly a part of the yr coincides with the ultimate learning push as college students prepare for highschool and school entrance exams, which is put on Japanese attire firm Senshukai is available in.
Understanding that it’s arduous to pay attention once you’re chilly, Senshukai wished to design a garment that may assist maintain wearers comfy, cozy, and capable of give attention to learning. What they give you was the Blessed Wearable Blanket (or GokitoKiry Mofu in Japanese), which seems much like some blanket-like robes from different producers, however with quite a few intelligent and considerate touches that make it particularly interesting for college kids learning for entrance exams.
To begin with, the Blessed Wearable Blanket is extra-long, in order that it’ll maintain your legs heat all the best way all the way down to you ankles, even if you happen to’re sitting in a chair at your examine desk. Absolutely enclosed mitten-style sleeves would make it arduous to show textbook pages or write notes, however the designers nonetheless wished to depart as little of your palms uncovered to the chilly as doable, so the sleeves are lengthy too, with thumb holes.
Talking of writing issues down, Senshukai realizes you could be utilizing a pencil if, for instance, you’re working via math issues. After all, the entire level of utilizing a pencil is as a way to erase what you wrote if you must, so the Blessed Wearable Blanket has patches on the elbows/forearms to maintain the sleeves from choosing up any eraser mud or shavings which have fallen onto your desk.
And as for the “blessed” a part of the title? That’s as a result of earlier than they’re shipped to prospects, each Blessed Wearable Blanket is distributed to Takinomiya Tenmangu, a Shinto shrine within the city of Ayauta, Kagawa Prefecture.
▼ Blessed Wearable Blankets at Takinomiya Tenmangu
Based in 886, Takinomiya Tenmangu has lengthy been related to scholarship and tutorial achievement. The shrine is devoted to the spirit of Sugawara no Michizane, the ninth century governor of the Kagawa space famend for his mind who was deified as a god of studying following his dying. To at the present time, college students typically go to Takinomiya Tenmangu to hope for good ends in necessary tutorial endeavors, comparable to entrance exams, and so the Blessed Wearable Blanket’s are blessed on the shrine for the advantage of college students unable to make the journey themselves.
Lastly, the Blessed Wearable Blanket encompasses a distinctive five-sided internal pocket. Why 5 sides? As a result of the Japanese phrase for “pentagon,” gokaku, sound similar to gokaku, which implies “to go a check.”
It’s price reiterating that Takinomiya Tenmangu is know as a shrine for studying usually, and so the blessing ought to ostensibly apply to all makes an attempt to accumulate new information, not simply entrance exams, and the finger holes and elbow pads ought to be simply as good to have for pleasure studying and sketching or different artwork initiatives as they’re for learning. Even setting apart any divine help it might bestow, It’s arduous to fault Senshukai’s logic that it’s simpler to pay attention once you’re not uncomfortably, distractingly chilly, so this undoubtedly seems like a superb studywear alternative, and if, after you place in your Blessed Wearable Blanket, you determine to do nothing extra productive than lie down and take a nap, it seems prefer it’s very properly suited to that function too.
The Blessed Wearable Blanket is priced at 6,990 yen (US$47) and might be oderd via Senshukai’s on-line store, Belle Maison, right here.
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