Hoshi gaki are persimmons that are peeled and dried whole over a period of several weeks through a combination of hanging and delicate hand-massaging, until the sugars contained in the fruit form a delicate surface with a dusting that looks like frost.
Unlike sliced dried fruit, which tend to be brittle and leathery, hoshi gaki are succulently tender and moist, with concentrated persimmon flavor.
The hoshi gaki method is traditional to Japan, and came to America with Japanese American farmers.
Gaki are a form of undead that are created when humans die, having lived lives of selfishness or dishonor, and are cursed to an existance in Gaki-do, the realm of the hungry dead.
Composed of the souls of drowned sailors, the Skull Tide Gaki manifests itself as a mass of chattering skulls, attacking ships by biting the hull and tossing the ship about by their sheer number.
Those sailors who fall overboard are ripped and torn in the jaws of the many skulls of the gaki, their tormented souls joining the hungry undead host.
Gaki, as described in GURPS Japan, are ghosts tormented by a ravenous hunger.
Gaki are not limited to campaigns in Japan; in any campaign where ghosts or spirits are possible, any connection to the Orient could cause a gaki to appear.
A successful physical attack against a gaki always hits (it does not defend), and does "normal" damage, but when its HT reaches 0, it is merely dispelled for 1d hours.
I hope that sated your curiosity as much as it did mine.
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In Japanese Buddhism, Gaki (餓鬼, "hungry ghosts") are the spirits of jealous or greedy people who, as punishment for their mortal vices, have been cursed with an insatiable hunger for a particular substance or object.
Gaki are often depicted in Japanese art (particularly that from the Heian period) as emaciated human beings with bulging stomachs and inhumanly small mouths and throats.
Gaki are generally little more than nuisances to mortals unless their longing is directed toward something vital, such as blood.
Hoshi gaki are persimmons that are peeled and dried whole over a period of several weeks through a combination of hanging and delicate hand-massaging, until the sugars contained in the fruit form a delicate “bloom,” a surface dusting that looks like frost.
Unlike sliced dried fruit, which tend to be brittle and leathery, hoshi gaki are succulently tender and moist, with concentrated persimmon flavor.
The hoshi gaki method is traditional to Japan, and came to America with Japanese American farmers.
In Japanese Buddhism, Gaki (餓鬼, "hungry ghosts") are the spiritss of jealous or greedy people who, as punishment for their mortal vices, have been cursed with an insatiable hunger for a particular substance or object.
Gaki are often depicted in Japanese art (particularly that from the Heian period) as emaciated human beings with bulging stomachs and inhumanly small mouths and throats.
Gaki are generally little more than nuisances to mortals unless their longing is directed toward something vital, such as blood.
After all, Buddha is punishing the Gaki for these sins, and the worst part of a Gaki's existence is their lack of sleep.
Some Gaki use this power for protection, some use it to deal with their own guilt, and some are rumored to have entered into their rift never to return again.
However, everything that enters the world from the Gaki's rift costs the Gaki a Willpower point, and may even be hostile to him (it is from his own version of hell, after all).
Proud and fierce, the House Bishamon rules the Gaki of Japan and is used to be obeyed.The head of Tokyo is the Dark Daimyo, who live retired and tried to find the illumination.
Hijiri Gaki are the specialists of rituals and most spirits are friendly to them.
It could be the result of a punishment - a social exile - or the consequences of a personal choice - the Gaki unable to stand the pressure and responsibilities of the Houses set himself apart.
Gaki school is full of kids like the furyou and the ganguro, even though they mostly never go to school anyway.
Even when they are in school they are just sitting around in the class just smoking, or doing their own things...
The teachers in the school can't handle the students, they are afraid of them so they tend to ignore all of the problems and just pretend like nothing is going on.
The boy is horrified however, when he sees his master's brain begin to ooze from beneath his hat and he faints.
Upon awakening, he finds that his master has turned into a vengeful gaki who pursues him to the edge of a cliff with the express purpose of making a meal of the boy.
Terrified, Usagi falls from the clif and keeps falling...
A Hoshi Gaki class will be held at Angeli Caffe, followed by a communal dinner.
Hachiya persimmons are peeled and dried whole over a period of several weeks through a combination of hanging and gentle hand-massaging, until the sugars contained in the fruit form a delicate “bloom,” a surface dusting that looks like frost, and the fruit becomes sweet as candy.
We will learn the art of Hoshi Gaki under the skillful guidance of Jeff Rieger, Placer County farmer and Slow Food member, who restored an old orchard planted in rare persimmons and Asian pears.
Through words and pictures, this scroll tells one part of the seven-part story of the gaki, or hungry ghosts.
The emaciated ghosts, with their skeleton-thin limbs and swollen bellies, are invisible to the human eye.
In contrast with the bustling variety of people conglomerated in front of the temple, the misery of the gaki is depicted in fluid brushwork and light touches of color.
Hoshi gaki are persimmons that are peeled and dried whole over a period of several weeks through a combination of hanging and delicate hand-massaging, until the sugars contained in the fruit form a delicate "bloom," a surface dusting that looks like frost.
The hoshi gaki method is traditional to Japan, and came to America with Japanese farmers who settled in California’s Placer County.
Slow Food has placed the hoshi gaki on its Ark of Taste, and is part of an effort to revive the process.
Gaki are semicorporeal Revenants that feed on either Perfume, Music, Poison, Life-Air, Blood, Feces, Flesh or Spirits.
They live in families - what kind of Gaki is "born" to its creator is random.
To reproduce, a Gaki plants a "bud" in a nearly dead Faerie, which will rise shortly as a Gaki, which some of it's families's knowledge and some of its host's.
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When people died their bodies were abandoned on mountains or in rivers and sometimes they were even left to the dogs or simply left to rot away.
It is fitting that "gaki", hungry ghosts, should live in such a gruesome world, and "Gaki-zoshi" (Scroll of the Hungry Ghosts) depicts such a scene with the utmost realism.
In the Middle Ages five-tiered monuments and Hokyo-into towers were built as memorials for Buddhist priests and those in the warrior class.
