In Nara "Magorokun" and "Sonn-kun" are coexisting in two characters

When Nara City Tourism Association launched "Masoro-kun", is it possible to forsake "Shin-kun" of loose characters already famous for Nara? It was talked about on the Internet. Was that Sonkun being expelled from Nara City? It was delivering to Nara tourism to confirm the current situation.

Hello,Takuya SAITO who did a round around the world by bicycle @ Charridermanis. The journey around the world has ended but I will continue to act as a writer. Life studies until it dies. I hope to tell you something interesting regardless of Japan or overseas.

◆ Traveling in Japan
It got longer on 29th July 2016Separate the bicycle around the worldI turned on. In the end of August when I caught up, grandmothers in Ehime and Nagasaki to greet their relativesAround the West Japan using a youth 18 ticketIt was. Since I wanted to see my friends, I also extended my feet to Osaka, as usualDoya Street in the Nishinari Ainery districtIt was to draw attention to.

◆ Deer of Nara
During the stay in Osaka, I wanted to see the question whether "Indian cattle" and "Nara's deer" resembled, I visited Nara for the first time in about 14 years.

It was in 2015 that I traveled to India. As the Hindu god Shiva god rides, Indian cows are subject to faith. I was walking around the city all the while. On the other hand, the deer of Nara is treated as a valued exercise of the divine value. It seems that God 's ride called Takeimikuchi was a deer. Same as India!

Deer who moshashshire grass at Nara Park.


Resting in the shade.


Large and clear tender eyes, elegant elegance behind, the deer of Nara was divine. It looked like a cow in India. I miss India for a moment in the sight that animals have melted into people's lives, such as walking on the roads where souvenirs are lined and being crazy for the deer rice crackers given by humans.

Deer Characters
As you can see, the symbol of Nara is a deer. Elephants in Thailand, Taiwanese people like bears, everyone in Nara was deer.

An illustration of a deer is also drawn on a telephone pole.


The police officer in Nara City was a deer, the inhabitants were big statues.


The manhole symbol was also a deer.


It was a deer character named "Rimoneme" to promote Nara City during the battle against the Linear Central Shinkansen New Station.Linear invading deerIt is said that. Kyary Pamyu Pu Muya MV of techno pop style reminiscent of "Ri nomine no Uta Promotion Video" reminiscent of Perfume is a must-see.

Rimonima no Uta Promotion Video - YouTube


Only Marikuna
That is why deer is also appreciated for loose characters in Nara City. When I traveled to Japan for the first time in a while, I became an unprecedented loose character boom. In Ehime Prefecture there was a dog's "Mikan" who had an orange face, and in Shimabara-shi, Nagasaki prefecture there was a ghost of "misakana".

Nara City Tourism Association will introduce new loose characters in May 2013 if there is no choice but to ride this big wave. It is the birth of "Masoro-kun" which made the motif of the deer which is the symbol of Nara. Unlike the old deer character "Shin-kun", "Kawaii" is the royal road of the loose character who put out all over. We welcome people who have visited Nara City with plump body of two heads, Nikko-sounding drooping eyes.

Magorokun | Nara City Tourism Association Official Website
http://narashikanko.or.jp/shikamaro/

A signboard that faced the tourist office immediately after leaving JR Nara station.


There was also a sightseeing memorial stamp.


A big poster who cheeks deer crackers.


Tourist information center in Kintetsu Nara station Marikaru - kun full of.


There was a statue in the storefront of McDonald 's in the city.


◆ Sento-kun
Speaking of Nara's deer character, on the other hand, will not you come up with "Shin-kun"? Design that does not feel uncomfortable even if it mixes with Bikkuriman stickers. While the controversial appearance which the corner grew to the crowb stalked as an ordinary person was "contagious" "contradicting the Buddha", although it controversial, it was also picked up by major media, and it became popular unexpectedly. Sengokun is the official character of the 1300th anniversary festival held in 2010 in Heijo transition capital, and has become a mascot character in Nara since 2011.

Welcome to Senkun's work room! _ Nara prefectural official website
http://www.pref.nara.jp/36939.htm

When only Makuro-kun appeared, the net caught on the topic of "What is Mori-kun's birth and what about Suto-kun?"

Sentokun regime collapsed! There was an accident in Yuru characters in Nara! - All About NEWS
http://news.allabout.co.jp/articles/d/84622/

Died theory on Sento-kun? Topics on the Net - Nara Keizai Shimbun
http://nara.keizai.biz/headline/848/

Sento-kun being miserably stupid as "Restructuring" "Kubi." But, however. Even though it was three decades later in 2016, Sentokun was alive.

She is close to the image of the general public. I was standing at JR Nara station.


Sen and Kun of deer and deer character will welcome "Welcome to Nara".


On the roadside we were asking for a historical quiz like Egyptian Sphinx.


Before the entrance of the Nara prefectural office there was a statue of a morning clothes style with a hat.


Sakon-kun of hakama style drawn on a board to count down the National Cultural Festival of the prefectural government.


Mutual prosperity
With this kind of feeling, Senkun was not destroyed by Mariro but two deer characters coexisted and co-existed in Nara City. It was a scene that seemed like Nara City where human beings and deers live together.

Two deer characters lining up in a tourist information center.


...... Actually, "only Marikun" is the Nara city sightseeing association, "Sengokun" is Nara prefecture rights difference. Just because Mariro is born in Nara City, Nara Prefecture will not let go of Sento-kun.

"© NARA pref" (copyright notation of Nara prefecture) attached Sonto-kun.


◆ This treatment difference
Even though Makiro's poster is exciting with Miss Kara 's kimono beauty ... ...


Sentokun 's poster is just ha ha ha in the night temple ......


I could not help entering "This difference in treatment ......".

Although it was made to the material, in fact Sonto-kunLotus flowerHe seems to have a lover 's candidate. on the contraryYodori-chanPlayboy saying that you will favor well. (Miss Nara was sponsored by Nara City Tourism Association)

Both "Marikarukun" and "Shin-kun" were exciting about Nara. Which one of you who read this article likes which deer character?

(Sentence / photo: Takuya S. Narou Charriderman
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