2024/10/16

Welcome to Paradise !

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Welcome to Gokuraku 極楽 the Buddhist Paradise !

I will try and introduce information about the life of Shakyamuni Buddha
and a glossary of terms, many of them are kigo for Japanese haiku.

Paradise, Heaven 極楽 gokuraku and Hell 地獄  jigoku

ano yo あの世 the other world
haraiso はらいそ paradise (paraiso)
higan 彼岸 the other shore
joodo 浄土 Jodo Paradise of Amida
ka no yo かの世 the other world
. meido 冥土 冥途 the other world / yomi 黄泉 "the yellow springs" .
paradaisu パラダイス paradise, Paradies
raise 来世 afterlife, the world to come
rakuen 楽園 paradise, earthly paradise
shigo no sekai 死後の世界 the world after death
takai 他界 to die, to pass into the other world
tengoku 天国 heaven
tenjoo 天上 Tenjo, "up there", heaven

. toogen 桃源 Shangri-La シャングリラ, Arcadia, Eden - Toogenkyoo 桃源郷 fairyland, .
桃源郷 lit. Peach Blossom Valley

. raigoo, raigō 来迎 Raigo, the soul on the way to paradise .
"Decent of Amida Buddha", "Amida Coming over the Mountain"
- raigoozuu 来迎図 Raigozu, illustrations of the way to paradise


. Tokoyo no Kuni 常世国, 常世の国 The Eternal Land (of Shintoism) .
yomi 黄泉 the yellow springs, die Gelben Quellen
yuutopia ユートピア Utopia


And in the limbo toward the other world here are a lot of vengeful spirits, monsters and goblins.

. jigoku 地獄 Buddhist hell - Introduction .
naraku ならく / 奈落 hell, hades

. Pilgrimages in Japan - Introduction .


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. Introducing Buddha Statues .

. Introducing Buddhist Temples 寺 .

. Famous Buddhist Priests - ABC-List .


Gabi Greve
GokuRakuAn 極楽庵, Japan


. Gokuraku Joodoo 極楽浄土 Gokuraku Jodo, Paradise in the West of Amida Nyorai .



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2024/10/04

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. Darumapedia - Temples and Gokuraku .

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A Tourist Guidebook to Paradise  
GokuRaku no Kankoo Annai 極楽の観光案内 by 西村公朝 Nishimura Kocho

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Buddhism in Japan - Buddha Statues - an extensive guide

A-TO-Z PHOTO DICTIONARY
source : Mark Schumacher


Buddhist Art News - Japan
News on Buddhist art, architecture, archaeology, music, dance, and academia.
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地獄と極楽がわかる本 - to understand hell and heaven
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A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism
William E. Deal, Brian Ruppert




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Review by Jonathan Ciliberto
Intended for “upper-level undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars,” A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism fills a gap by presenting largely recent work of Japanese and Western scholars on Japanese Buddhism. The authors consider prior books on Buddhist cultural history as largely from Indian and Tibetan viewpoints. The particular presumptions, intellectual models, or even prejudices of such positions (e.g., to view Japanese Buddhism as a distant reflection, or a corruption, of a continental original) are seen as obstacles to an accurate history of Buddhism’s influence and interaction with Japan.

The great value of the book is to direct readers to approaches and theories perhaps overlooked by more general histories of Buddhism. Each chapter includes its own bibliography and notes, making the book useful for study of narrow sections of Japan’s history.

Published in 2015, many summaries of and citations to recent scholarship are incorporated. Although a relatively short volume (~200 pages, absent notes and biolographies), it includes a great deal of purely historical information surrounded by “cultural history,” covering Japan from protohistory to the present. The book includes a character glossary.

Some themes that run through the book are: that Buddhism in Japan was not a monolithic “ism,” and that individual sects were not exclusive of one another but rather interacted in practice and doctrine; the complex interaction of indigenous religion with Buddhism; Buddhist lineages in Japan as the agents of cultural influence (e.g., “lineages had already begun to pursue the possibility of an ultimate deity”).

Many chapters include subsections on women and gender in Japanese Buddhism, including a fascinating section on the link between literary salons “established in women’s circles” and often held within monasteries and creating an environment for “the evolving and intimate connection between monastic Buddhists and their lay supporters” (102-4). More generally, these sections illustrate the important influence of women on Japanese Buddhism throughout its history. The book also devotes substantial attention to religion in Japan in the modern period, a much-needed resource.

One instance of a simplification of Japanese history that the authors seek to correct is the view that Shinto and Buddhism remained largely separate strands. While the doctrine of honji-suijaku is relatively well-known, the book reveals in greater depth the complex interplay between the two religions by reference to the writings of recent (and less-recent) scholars.

Another attempt to reveal subtlety beyond a stock scholarly view concerns (in the Heian period) the “limitations of the ‘rhetoric of decadence’ [that] some scholars attribute to ‘old’ Buddhism”. The authors offer Minamoto no Tamenori’s (d. 1101) Sanbo’e as an attempt “to incorporate other parts of the populace” beyond the aristocracy. This undercuts the claim that “practitioners of the ‘old’ Buddhism were completely unconcerned with those outside their walls” as a cause of the emergence of “religious heroes” (like Kukai and Nichiren) (88-90). (That said, the ongoing theme of Japanese Buddhists, unsatisfied with the quality of teaching in Japan, who sought original texts and more authoritative teachers in China, does support the basis of a kind of “decadent” Buddhism.)

It is important to have a sense of what “cultural history” is, or what it intends to do, before considering the authors’ approach to a history Japanese Buddhism. Given that cultural history includes an extremely wide set of approaches, determining the present authors’ use of it as a method is largely about picking out strands from the mass of possibilities. (One author refers to “the notorious difficulty of organizing the disorderly profusion of intradisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and varying national-intellectual meanings and understandings of the “culture concept” into anything resembling consensual form” [Geoffrey Eley, “What Is Cultural History?”, New German Critique, No. 65, Cultural History/Cultural Studies, Spring – Summer, 1995, pp. 19-36].)

While the authors don’t set out their approach, generally in the present volume they tend to consider Buddhism in Japan less in terms of its religious or spiritual character or content and more as a generator of social and political forms. Or, rather, it is unspoken that religion was the driving force in developing myriad cultural effects in Japan, but the book doesn’t linger on religion itself, as it does on these effects.

It is unclear whether this approach is based on the position described by the scholar of medieval Japanese Buddhism Bernard Faure when he refers to an “absolute standpoint” as a “contradiction in terms” (Faure, Visions of Power (2000), 9). (Faure is frequently cited in A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism.) That is: there are no “religious” standpoints motivating individuals, in terms of absolute or ideal concepts, or at least that taking direction from such standpoints is delusional.

Faure’s view (following from Le Goff) is that “literary and artistic works of art (and, in the case of religion, ritual practice) do no represent any eternal, unitary reality, but rather are the products of the imagination of those who produce them” (Faure, 10, emphasis added). A similar view of religion advocates a “History of Religions approach – trying to figure out how and why certain forms of religiosity took shape the way they did instead of assuming that it was religious experience that made religion” (Alan Cole, Fathering Your Father (2009), xi).

Thus, Faure and historians who follow his approach write religious history absent of religion as an internal activity, aimed at self-improvement, transcendental, or altruistic. Or perhaps this approach simply considers individual “religious” experiences too personal, too psychologically opaque, to form the basis of historical inquiry, and thus discards consideration of such experiences as “religious” in nature, and instead consider them in mainly terms of materiality and politics.

The authors of A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism follow more directly the historian Kuroda Toshio’s sociopolitical functionalist approach. While occasionally offering descriptions of Buddhist practice and doctrine, the book largely focuses on: state-control over and connection with Buddhism in Japan (“Buddhism was firmly controlled by the state” during the early period (66)); art as narrative or purely visual, rather than a function of practice (99); Buddhist practice as a means of gaining influence or power at court, and the claim that “undoubtably” the introduction of esoteric lineages was related to the royal court’s interest in such power(106); that the court drove ritual (“Pivotal organizational and philosophical changes begin to arise in the royal court with the consolidation of the annual court ceremonies” (88, 106)).

Throughout, the authors take pains to connect influential Buddhists with the court: “The Daigoji halls, like those in other major monasteries, primarily housed scions of Fujiwara and Minamoto heritage” (107); “The Shingon lineages, from a very early point, […] had a special connection with the royal line” (108); “the intimate association between Tendai’s Enryakuji (Hiei) and the leading Fujiwaras” (108). Every monk who was a member of a royal family is identified in such a manner.

The author’s de-emphasis on “religious” explanations for religious history in Japan is intended to counterbalance writers who rely too much on such explanations. Citing the notable effect of D.T. Suzuki’s presentation of Zen Buddhism to the West (absurdist, gnomic, iconoclastic), and pointing out that “few Japanese Zen adherents, except those in the modern period and particularly those with access to the writings of Suzuki translated into Japanese” would recognize it, the author’s more social-science approach finds some justification. (146-7).

Performance theory is connected with the authors’ approach. A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism doesn’t lay any groundwork for the reader as to what the doctrine or technique of applying performance theory are. It is a notoriously amorphous field of inquiry. One description of the approach states that “the performative nature of societies around the world, how events and rituals as well as daily life [are] all governed by a code of performance,” and one sees how this aligns with Deal and Ruppert’s approach in the present volume: religious acts are not generated by authenticity, but rather are ritualized and “for show.” Performance theory is difficult to understand as contributing much to an analysis of history, since all human action is outward, and thus all actions are, in a literal sense, “performed.” The negative application of the theory is applied in the present volume: performance theory supports the strategy of avoiding examination the motivations, hearts, or minds of individual in Japanese Buddhist history.

This is a strategy for writing history, and indicates the above-mentioned scholarly caution, perhaps, but also it tends to paint individuals as acting according to a plan (or with hindsight), rather than by caprice, calling, sincerity, compassion, or irrationality. Perhaps it doesn’t matter, in terms of cultural history, whether or not an effect was caused by religion or some other motivation, but only that the effect did occur.

With regard to Buddhist art, the authors acknowledge – particularly as to poetry – that the “undoubted” motivation for including Buddhist themes was a recognition of the contrast between non-attachment and the “intoxication of those who made use of or found beauty in the linguistic arts” (102). Oddly – although in keeping with the author’s “non-religious” approach to religious art – the idea that such an aesthetic intoxication is meant exactly to advance individuals’ practice (e.g., through visualization) is never mentioned, with respect to poetry or any other art form.
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2024/06/20

Yakushiji Izumo Nakano

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. Buddhist Temples and their Legends .
. Izumo Pilgrimage to 10 important Yakushi temples 出雲十大薬師霊場 .
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Yakushiji 薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji, Nakano
長命山 Chomeizan 薬師寺 Yakushiji // 川跡薬師 (かわとやくし) Kawato Yakushi
島根県出雲市中野町182 / Shimane, Izumo city, Nakano town

The main statue is 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai, made by 一鑑隆明師 Reverend Takaaki Ichikan.
Ichikan is the 16th generation of 松江洞光寺十六世 the Temple Toko-Ji of Matsue.

- Chant of the temple
簸(ひ)の川(かわ)の 清(きよ)き川跡((かわと)の御薬師(おんやくし)
恒紗(ごうしゃ)の衆生(しゅじょう)救(すく)ひ漏(も)らさず


The Temple was founded in 1719 during a time of severe epidemic.
The head priest prayed for help from the Deities, undergoing a severe prayer ritual
itto sanrai 一刀三拝 (イットウサンライ)| one cut of the Yakushi statue and three deep bows,
thus making a statue of Yakushi Nyorai.

In 1884, the temple was elected as one of the 12 Yakushi Nyorai and named
川跡薬師 Kawato Yakushi.
In the compound are many statues of other deities like
慈母観音、地蔵菩薩、十王像、弘法大師、金比羅、秋葉権現.

People come here to pray for 長命 a long life, 学問 good scholarship and 諸願成就 fulfillment of their wishes.

慈母観音堂 Jibo "Mother Kannon" Hall

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2月15日 涅槃会 Nehan-E - Nirvana ritual
4月8日  花まつり Hana Matsuri - Flower festival
7月23日 施食法要 Shishoku Hoyo - almsgiving memorial service

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This temple is Nr. 05 of the pilgrimage
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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .

. Legends about Yakushi Nyorai .

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2024/06/18

Daikoji Yakushi Iwano

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Daikooji 大光寺 Daiko-Ji, Iwano
大光寺 Daikoji // 岩野薬師 Iwano Yakushi
島根県出雲市斐川町上直江2198 / Shimane, Izumo city, Hikawa town, Kami-Naoe

The main statue is one of seven Yakushi statues carved by 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu, when he was in the area.
The statue was carved more than 1200 years ago.
The Yakushi Hall was built in 1706, at 岩野山上 the top of Mound Iwano.
People come here to pray for healing from of diseases from eyes, ears, the mouth and arms and legs.

The warrior 遠藤与一 Endo Yoichi offered a large sword and came every day to pray.
It was also known as 妻薬師 "The Wife of Yakushi".

- Chant of the temple
ゆかり濃き 氷川の里は弥栄湯 薬師日も夜も守り給へる 

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This temple is Nr. 04 of the pilgrimage
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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .


....................................................................... Ibaraki 栃木県 
栃木市 Ibaraki city 大光寺町 Daikoji town

. hebi 蛇と伝説 Legends about snakes and serpents .
When 親鸞上人 Saint Shinran passed here, there was a woman
who had turned into a serpent because of envy.
Shinran healed the woman.
. Saint Shinran 親鸞 (1173 – 1263) .




....................................................................... Nagasaki 長崎県 
長崎市 Nagasaki city 鍛冶屋町 Kajiya town

kitsune 狐 a fox
5,60年前、今籠町の大音寺と大光寺の境にある深い溝(大溝)に狐の老夫婦がいた。善狐で、住職に恩を受けたので、寺の周囲を夜回りした。拍子木の音が瓦を打ち鳴らすようににも、竹筒を叩くようにも聞えた。その音を聞くと、「狐の拍子木だ」と言って、火の元の注意をした。

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .




....................................................................... Saitama 埼玉県  
岩槻市 Iwatsuki city

yooji 楊枝 toothpick
When 日蓮 Saint Nichiren visited the Temple Daikoji in Iwatsuki, he pressed his toothpick into the ground.
It begun to grow and became a yanagi 柳 willow tree near the pond.
. Nichiren, Saint Nichiren 日蓮 (1222 – 1282) .
. tsumajoji 爪楊枝 toothpick .

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2024/06/16

Shoreiji Ichihara Takane

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Shooreiji 称礼寺 Shorei-Ji, Takane
安養山 Anyozan 称礼寺 // 稱禮寺 Shoreiji
市原市上高根643 / Ichihara city, Kami-Takane

Not much information is found online.

In the compound is also a 薬師堂 Hall for Yakushi Nyorai.

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2024/06/14

Shogonji Yakushi Shobara

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Shoogonji 荘厳寺 Shogon-Ji, Shobara
不老山 Furozan 荘厳寺 Shogonji / 荘原薬師 Shobara Yakushi
島根県出雲市斐川町上庄原659 / Shimane, Izumo city, Hikawa town, Kami-Shobara

The main statue is a seated statue of 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai.
It was made on request of 備前守綱寛公 Tsunahiro, the Lord of Takase Castle.
It was carved by priest 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu.
It is one of the seven Yakushi statues carved by Gyoki in this region.

- Chant of the temple
薬師(やくし)への 道(みち)ありかたし湖(うみ)のなみ
原(はら)のそよぎもみ名(な)をたたへり


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2024/06/12

Hozoji Mie Hirao

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Hoozooji 宝蔵寺 Hozo-Ji, Hirao
月照山 Gesshozan 蓮光院 Renko-In 宝蔵寺 Hozoji
名張市平尾3232  / Nabari city, Hirao

The main statue is 無量寿仏 Muryojubutsu / Amitāyus-buddha 阿彌陀仏 Amida Buddha.

- Chant of the temple
おん あみりた ていぜい からうん

The old name of the Temple was 平尾山蓮光院 Hiraozan Renko-In.
The temple was restored in 1604 by the senior high priest 行盛阿闍梨 Yukimori Ajari.
The records show that it was a sub-temple of 興福寺 Temple Kofuku-Ji in Nara.
Around 680, the Emperor 聖武天皇 Shomu Tenno (在位 724 - 49) had asked priest Gyoki Bosatsu 行基
to carve a statue of 法蔵阿弥陀仏 Hozo Amida Buddha.
But during the Iga Revolution in 1581, the Temple was lost in fire
and all the old records were lost.
In 1913 a small main entrance gate was rebuilt.

In the compound is koyasu Jizo Do 子安地蔵堂 a Jizo hall to protect Children.
Every year on August 19 people come here and perform 盆踊り a Bon dance.

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- Yearly Festivals 年中行事 -

1月12日 大般若法要
8月5日  施餓鬼供養

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Also on the following pilgrimage :

. Iga Shikoku 88 Pilgrimage 伊賀四国八十八カ所 . - Nr. 55

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- - - - - Reference of the temple
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This temple is Nr. 52 of the pilgrimage

. Mie Shikoku Henro 三重四国八十八ヵ所霊場 .

. Kobo Daishi Kukai 弘法大師 空海 (774 - 835) .

. Amida Nyorai 阿弥陀如来 .

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老猫 the old cat
The old cat at 宝蔵寺 the Temple Hozo-Ji had transformed into a priest
and performed strange and scary rituals.

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2024/06/10

Zuiunji Hirata Izumo

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Zuiunji 瑞雲寺 Zuiun-Ji, Hirata
薬王山 Yakuozan, 瑞雲寺 Zuiunji // 平田薬師 Hirata Yakushi
島根県出雲市平田町116 / Shimane, Izumo city, Hirata town

The main statue is Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来, carved by the famous carver 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu.
The two Nio statues right and left to the main gate were made by 運慶 Unkei.

- Chant of the temple
ありがたや 瑠璃のひかりに 照らされて あたごの山に 晴るる朝霧

The temple is located near a city park famous for its cherry blossoms.
The temple was founded in 944 during an epidemic.
Even now people come here to pray for good health of the whole family.

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- Koyasu Daishi 子安大師 Kobo Daishi to protect children-
あなとうと 子安大師の ご利益(りやく)を 受けしうぶ子の 声ぞいさまし

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平田薬師秋季大祭 Great Autumn Festival at Hirata Yakushi
The festival lasts for two days.
. - reference : zuiunnji.jimdofree ... - .

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. source : google 瑞雲寺 .



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This temple is Nr. 02 of the pilgrimage
. . 出雲十大薬師霊場 Izumo Pilgrimage to 10 important Yakushi temples .

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2024/06/08

Mudoji Mie Kuroda

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Mudooji 無動寺 Mudo-Ji, Kuroda
秀山 Hideyama (Shuzan) 密厳院 Mitsugon-In 無動寺 Mudoji
名張市黒田902 / Nabari city, Kuroda

The main statue is 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O , carved by Kobo Daishi himself.
The wooden statue is 97,1 cm high

- Chant of the temple
なうまく さんまんだ ばざらだん せんだん まかろしゃだ
そわたや うんたらた かんまん


The temple was founded around 820 by 弘法大師 Kobo Daishi
on request of 嵯峨天皇 Emperor Saga (786 - 842).
In 857, the temple was revitalized by Saint 實譽上人.
It became the Family Temple of the Lord of Iga.
At that time it had 七堂伽藍 a traditional compound with 7 buildings.
In 1581 during 伊賀乱 the Iga rebellion it burned down.
The temple treasured were evacuated to the back of the mountain.
In 1593, 恵遍僧都 Priest Eben had the temple rebuilt.
In 1658, 秀雄僧都 Priest Hideo added it to the 醍醐派 Daigo group.
In 1665, it belonged to the 名張藤堂家 Todo Clan of Nabari.
In 1859 the Temple had 13 Sub-Temples.
The Main Hall was lost during a Typhoon and rebuilt in 1756.
It lasted for more than 200 years.
It the compound are many special buildings 大師堂、閻魔堂、護摩堂、弁財天堂、宝京篋印塔.

Stone statues in the compound

The Dragon Well in the compound

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- Yearly Festivals 年中行事 -

旧暦2月1日 大般若法要
8月5日   施餓鬼法要

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Also on the following pilgrimages:

. Iga Shikoku 88 Pilgrimage 伊賀四国八十八ヶ所 . - Nr. 53

. Iga no Kuni jun Saikoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage 伊賀国準西国三十三ヶ所観音霊場 . - Nr. 04

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This temple is Nr. 51 of the pilgrimage

. Mie Shikoku Henro 三重四国八十八ヵ所霊場 .

. Kobo Daishi Kukai 弘法大師 空海 (774 - 835) .

. Fudo Myo-O 不動明王 .

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無動寺の月やこぼれて志賀の浜
Mudooji no tsuki ya koborete Shiga no hama

the moon at Temple Mudo-Ji -
it spills on the beach
of Shiga
Tr. Gabi Greve

浜田酒堂 Hamada Sakedo

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名張市 Nabari city

shidarezakura シダレ桜 weeping cherry blossom tree
Around 1950, the weeping cherry blossom tree at 無動寺 the Temple Mudo-Ji
showed a light above it, blinking on and off.
It started two days before two parishioners of 無動寺 the Temple Mudo-Ji died.
Then it stopped.

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2024/06/06

Gyokusenji Ichihara Terayatsu

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Gyokusenji 玉泉寺 Gyokusen-Ji, Terayatsu
玉泉寺 Gyokusenji
市原市寺谷11 / Ichihara city, Terayatsu

The main statue is 大日如来 Dainichi Nyorai.

Not much information is found online.

Access road

Jizo Bosatsu Statues in the compound

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Also on the following pilgrimage :

. Shin Kazusa 33 Kannon 新上総国三十三観音霊場 . Nr. 06

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This Temple is Nr. 35 of the
. Ichihara 市原郡八十八ヶ所霊場 88 Temples Pilgrimage .

. Gyokusenji 玉泉寺 Gyokusen-Ji, Ichinono .
千葉県長生郡長南町市野々 / Chiba, Chosei district, Chonan town, Ichinono

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At the Temple 玉泉寺 Gyokusen-Ji there is the grave of 大積伊賀守隆鎮 Osumi Iga no Kami Tokochin,
the lord of the 門司城 Moji castle.
He was killed by 大友宗麟 Otomo Sorin and buried here.
If people give the moss of the grave to a horse or bull,
the animals will never be attacked by a Kappa.




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邑智郡 Ochi district

enkoo えんこう a Kappa
馬を洗っているとえんこうが取り憑いたので、引っ張り返して捕まえたという。
At the Temple Gyokusen-Ji at 君谷村 Kimitani village の玉泉寺では、今後川で人をとらないと約束して証文を入れ、口羽村の宗林寺では、和尚が岩に文字を刻んで、その文字が見えなくなるまで人をとらないと誓わせた。えんこうは毎晩出ては岩の文字を消そうと撫で続けたという。

. 河童 / 合羽 / かっぱ / カッパ - Kappa, the Water Goblin of Japan! .

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