Sugi Yakushi Cedar

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Yakushi Sugi 薬師杉 Cedar Tree and Yakushi Nyorai


. WKD : sugi 杉 cedar tree in all seasons .
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. Folktales, legends about Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 / 薬師様 / 薬師さん .

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ヤクシスギ / やくしすぎ Yakushi Sugi
Nearby is a small Yakushi-Do 薬師堂 Hall for Yakushi Nyorai .



This old tree is about 30 meters high.
in Niigata, 新潟県柏崎市石曽根小清水
source :　hitozato-kyoboku.com

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sugi Yakushi 杉薬師 Yakushi and the cedar tree

Long ago in the Tenpyo period (729 - 749), when the Emperor 孝謙天皇 Koken Tenno (718 - 770) was very ill and asked his diviners for advise, they told him:
"In Mutsu 陸奥 there is a very very high cedar tree 大杉 and its long branches produced a shadow until your living quarters, causing your illness."
So he ordered one of his ministers, 某（なにがし） the Dainagon Nanigashi, to have the tree cut down.
The minister found a huge cedar tree at the village of Tsukidate and had it cut down. From the cutting surface blood spilled on the ground. But on the next morning all was healed and the tree was standing there as before.
However many times they cut it down, the same thing happened. Then a diviner told them to prepare a rope of the reeds in a field North-East to the cedar tree and cover the cutting wound with it.
The splinters from cutting flew in all directions and were soon gone.
Finally the illness of the Emperor was healed.
So he ordered to have a temple build over the stump of the cedar tree. Later Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 passed here and had a statue of Yakushi Nyorai placed on the altar.

. Yakushi Nyorai Legends from Miyagi 宮城県 .
栗原郡 Kurihara 築館町 Tsukidate

and more about the temple 双林寺 Sorin-Ji.


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影もつれ鹿ノ子鬼百合杉薬師
kage mo tsure ka no ko oniyuri sugi yakushi

shadows get longer
over all kinds of tiger lilies
Sugi Yakushi
Tr. Gabi Greve

Ishizaki Soshuu 石崎素秋 Ishisaki Soshu



. WKD : lilies in all seasons .



photo - wikipedia

kanoko yuri 鹿の子百合 Speciosum lily
Lilium speciosum, sometimes called the Japanese lily

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. Yakushipedia - ABC-Index 薬師如来 .

. Japan - Shrines and Temples - ABC .


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