The Fruit Composition of ‘’Gebogan’’ Offering

Nusa Dua is much connected with BTDC (Bali Tourism Development Center). Few people realize that Nusa Dua, Bali’s premier luxury resort complex, is the result of an innovative idea first applied in Indonesia, which is the development and management of a resort complex by one supervisory body. This makes the building procedure simpler and more cost effective – and it is easier to carry out policies protecting the local culture and environment, to enforce standards of quality, and to ensure a coherent design concept.

There are various forms of sesajen offering ingredients according to localities and its functions producing various nomenclatures. One of the forms frequently found in Bali has been what is popular among Balinese as gebogan or pajegan, looking out as a cone. Material components used to prepare it are mainly fruits so as to create beautiful offering composition in accordance to the functions and the kinds of rites differentiated in those aimed at being used in temple ritual known as Dewa Yadnya or just at home (Manusa Yadnya: wedding, cremation, etc.). Even much gebogan cones, made of flowers or young coconut leafs, function to decorate ceremonies in hotels.
Gebogan in general consists of various leafs, mainly carved and composed in such a way as to render it attractive lookout, while colorful flowers and fresh fruits or fruits processed in form of specific Balinese cakes. Even rice is certainly an essential component part of the gebogan.
Hindu adherents (in general those of Balinese community) do not miss to include visualization of upward looking roasted chicken within zest to glorify visualization of the gebogan as one of ritual implements of religious traits in this Island of Gods. Growing up to three meters, it would not quite easy to install gebogan, especially for those people not yet acquainted with the job. Skill and experience would be a needy prerequisite for such workers, who could not even neglect the importance played by the role of aesthetic character. Such deployment of personal capabilities has been a prerequisite in realizing a complex process of making a gebogan implement.
Such complexity of work of producing gebogan could clarify why the job deployment needs female fingers in general to express not merely spiritual quality in the work but also to herald its ethics, aesthetics, grounded philosophy, as it has been represented Desa Adat traditional village in Bali, inclusive the village supporters. Villages having affluent crop of fruits or flowers would have dominant show of fruits or flowers of all sorts, etc. (Surawan)

Tourism Journey Record Asakusa Art Market, Tokyo

The fifth leveled Pagoda of Asakusa Temple seem uniquely exist in the midst of huge buildings of Tokyo. Thousands of domesticated doves in crowd, teasing, and fly away around the gloomy pagoda. While the visitor, some enjoys their time with the tame doves and some seem devotedly prayed for a bestowal at the temple’s main altar, goguken.
Asakusa is one well-known area in Tokyo with traditional houses or buildings, Buddhist and Shinto temples, or other tourism object that are visited by the foreign tourist. Each year, middle of May, Asakusa provide with ritual festival that is Sanja Matsuri, festival sanja at Asakusa Jinja (Shinto Asakusa Temple) that very popular and always followed also watched by hundred thousands visitors.
Entering the temple area that is located in Taito location, visitors should pass kaminarimon gate that guarded by two of Gods Dragon statue. Beside as a spiritual and historical tourism object, Asakusa Temple is also functioned as the exhibition place and a market to sell various handicrafts and several traditional cake of Sakura country. All can be watch, purchased, and enjoyed by the tourist inside the stall rows, nakamise, that orderly arranged along the street border towards the temple main altar.
Harmoniously nuance abuse the visitor as they accessing into the Akasuka Art Market. The stalls stand in a row along the left and right side of the street. Even though in the summer of August, the breezy nuance created by the leafy imitation vegetation that appears from both sides of the stall’s roof. The visitor is free to stop into the 3 X 3 meter stall, and welcomed warmly by the shopkeeper.
The arrangement of the stall is orderly indeed, even though much stuff contain within the stall. The visitor can easily enter to the stall – not as crowd as Sukawati Art Market, Gianyar. Inside the stall, the visitor will serve with hospitality without any forcing to buy the product.
Mostly, that Japanese traditional souvenir stalls are selling various kind of traditional fan. Some also sell kimonos; some are specially storing several mask type of Japanese traditional art performance. The price already exists on each of the stuff. No price discrimination for the local and foreigner, as it appears in arts market in Bali. Comfortable in shopping is well tasted inside Akasuka art market.
Passing after the stall’s row, the visitor entering the hozomon gate, goguken altar, the main temple area. Here, the religious atmosphere appears devotedly. The visitor who prayes or wants silence their mind, firstly they should clean their self, symbolically wash their hand and rinse the mouth with natural clean water that locate in front of the temple. Then, light the incense and stuck on the old fireplace. The smokes swayed away with hand to our body while requesting something, whether it spoken or only in mind. Purportedly, many of it is granted.
Asakusa temple object with its art market is amazing. Clean, orderly, comfortable, with highly etiquette culture will cause the visitor pleasure. By then, many tourists sufficiently visit Asakusa art market while their vacation in Tokyo, Japan. (BTN/Suartaya)

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