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. Gofunai 御府内八十八ヶ所霊場 88 Henro Temples in Edo .
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Choomeiji 長命寺 Chomei-Ji
東京都練馬区高野台3-10-3 - Tokyo Nerima ward, Takanodai

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The temple bell and the deva gate of Chomeiji Temple
Chomeiji Temple was constructed in the Edo period and is known to possess many cultural assets, including the temple bell, deva gate, and a color print of performers on a wooden board, all of which are located on the temple grounds.



The temple bell, which hangs in the bell tower, is an elongated copper bell that stands 115 centimeters in height, 63.2 centimeters in diameter, and 6.3 centimeters in edge thickness. The bell was originally used as a signal to gather the monks for an assembly but is now used as joya-no-kane, which means the bell strike on New Year's Eve.

The deva gate, with its beautiful kaerumata decoration (decorative curved wooden support above the main beam), is a structure with a half-hipped roof made from sheet copper and has been preserved as a valuable asset reminiscent of architecture from the late 17th Century.
- source : nerima-kanko-en.blogspot.jp

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Choomeiji hakkei 長命寺八景 eight famous views from Chomei-Ji


本堂 / 南大門 / 東門 / 書院 / 鐘楼堂 / 観音堂 / 奥ノ院

- source : www.neritaka.net/history/cyoumeiji




The temple bell hall - 鐘楼堂
paintings by Okubo san 大久保潤二

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futatsu choochoo kuruwa nikkizu ema 双蝶々曲輪日記図絵馬



- source : www.city.nerima.tokyo.jp/annai

Votive tablet on a wooden board with two kabuki actors
右 三代目坂東三津五郎演じる濡髪長五郎 - Nuregami Chogoro on the right
左 三代目中村歌右衛門の放駒長吉 - Hanaregoma Chokichi on the left

designed by Torii Kiyonaga 鳥居清長 (1751 - 1815), a famous ukiyo-e painter of his time.

. ema 絵馬 votive tablets - Introduction .

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Futatsu chocho kuruwa nikki - Two butterflies of the licensed quarter

Ichikawa Ebijuro I as Nuregami Chogoro and
Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Hanaregoma Chokichi
at the Kawarazaki theatre in 1820

In this surimono both actors wear the traditional wrestler’s dress of a folded haori jacket across the shoulders, and a second sash (uwajime) over the first to stop it unravelling. The play derived from the puppet theatre and appears to have been based on a true event in which a quarrelsome Sumo wrestler named Nuregami Chogoro killed a samurai and was captured after hiding out at his father’s house in Yawata village. In the play, Hanaregoma Chokichi is an amateur wrestler whose patron is at odds with Chogoro’s patron Yogoro.



In this scene the two wrestlers engage in a test of strength to see who can crush a tea cup with their bare hand. Chogoro succeeds, but the amateur Chokichi has to cheat by hitting the cup against the guard of his sword (katana no scuba). The two later swear allegiance as blood brothers. The words futatsu (two) and chocho (butterflies) in the play’s title pun on the wrestlers’ names, which both include the character cho (long).
- source : www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery

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The temple was founded by the priest 慶算阿闍梨 Keisan Ajari in 1613 as a small retreat to hold a statue of Kobo Daishi.
In 1640 priest 小池坊秀算 Koikebo Shuzan brought a statue of an eleven-headed Kannon from Nara and the temple was named as it is today.



The main statue is the eleven-headed Kannon Bosatsu 十一面観音.

武蔵野観音霊場第一番札所 - Nr. 1 of the Musashino Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Statues
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豊島八十八ヶ所 - Nr. 17 - Toshima 88 Henro temples

It is Nr. 17 of this Edo pilgrimage:
. Gofunai 御府内八十八ヶ所霊場 88 Henro Temples in Edo .


- ご詠歌 - chant of the Henro temple 井戸寺 Idoi-Ji in Shikoku :
面影を映してみれば井戸の水　結べば胸の垢や落ちなん
Omokage o utsushite mireba Ido no mizu musubeba mune no aka ya ochinan


- 朱印 - stamp of the temple :



- Homepage of the temple
- source : chomeiji.org






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There are many other temples in Japan with this name.

滋賀県近江八幡市 - Shiga prefecture
- wikipedia -

Choomeiji 長命寺 Sumida ward, Tokyo 墨田区向島5-4-4 - see below

and many more -
- reference 長命寺 -

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Choomeiji sakuramochi 長命寺桜もち
焼皮桜餅- 長命寺 sakuramochi rice cakes from temple Chomei-Ji in Sumida ward
The wrapping is fried on a hot plate and the cherry blossom leaf is lightly pickled in salt.
. sakura mochi, sakuramochi 桜餅 Cherry Blossom Rice Cakes .
kigo for late spring



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長命寺さくらもちより賀状かな
choomeiji sakuramochi yori nenga kana

from temple Chomei-Ji
instead of cherry blossom rice cakes
there comes a New Year greeting . . .

The cut marker KANA is at the end of line 3.

. 久保田万太郎 Kubota Mantaro .


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三つ食えば葉三片や桜餅　
mitsu kueba yoo sanpen ya sakuramochi　

if you eat three
you have three leaves -
sakuramochi

. 高浜虚子 Takahama Kyoshi .

At the temple Choomeiji 長命寺 Chomei-Ji they are wrapped in three leaves, so if you eat three cakes you have nine leaves.

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