Yakushi Legends Tohoku

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. Yakushipedia - ABC-Index 薬師如来 .
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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru
Legends from Tohoku　東北と薬師さん　

Michinoku no Yakushi みちのくの薬師如来仏像

- source : letuce's room

- - - - - Yakushi Jinja 薬師神社 / 薬師社 Yakushi Shrines in Japan
. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 Legends from the Prefectures .
Fukui 福井県 //

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Below in ABC order of the prefectures:

Akita -- Aomori -- Fukushima -- Iwate -- Miyagi -- Yamagata

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Akita 　秋田県

source : city.oga.akita.jp

. Henjoo-In 遍照院 Henjo-In .
6 Uwamachi, Ōdate-shi, Akita

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Aomori 　青森県

南部路 In the Southern Parts

七戸町 Shichinohe town

Yamaya Yakushidoo 山屋薬師堂 Yamaya Yakushi-Do Hall

This hall used to be in the Southern Plain of Shichinohe.
That location was difficult to visit for prayers.
Once someone passed by, became very tired and took a nap, but then realized there was a wildfire. When he tried to run away his leg got caught in a vine. He fell down and hurt his eye on a udo plant (（独活、Aralia cordata）.
So until our times people come here to pray to Yakushi to heal their eye diseases.
And nobody is allowed to eat the udo plant.

The statue of Yakushi is made from one piece of the katsura tree 桂の木 (Japanese Judas tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum), dating back to the Heian period.

On the 8th day of the fourth lunar month ４月８日 (now celebrated on April 8) many people come here to pray.

The place was also used by the mountain ascetics and their hall for mountain worship was called 薬王院 Yakuo-In. During the Meiji period, it was re-named to Yakushi-Do Hall.

In the precincts are two large 狛犬 koma-inu, dedicated by the shipping company of Hoeimaru Yohachiro 運送船頭宝永丸與八郎 in 1861.

Now there is no priest in residence here any more and the temple 瑞龍寺 Zuiryu-Ji, the clan temple of the Nanbu clan takes care of it.
- source : www.aotabi.com

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薬師の湯 Yakushi no Yu onsen hot spring
at Osorezan 恐山 - 青森県むつ市田名部字宇曽利山３－２

At the Osorezan Hot Spring area, there are many different kinds of baths.

A small bath with beautiful green color, for men and women taking turns.

- Look at more photos from the various hot baths
- source : www.geocities.jp/nara_no_daibutu2

. Osorezan Taisai 恐山大祭 Great Festival at Mount Osorezan.
During the main festival in summer, many people come to get in contact with their lost loved ones through the blind Itako shamans.

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Fukushima 　福島県

Kaki no ki 柿の木, 薬師様 o-tsuge お告げ persimmon trees and an announcement for Yakushi
In a small village in 北会津村 North Aizu there is a religious restriction 禁忌 related to the belief in Yakushi Nyorai, not to plant any persimmon trees.
Around the year 1922 the farmers tried to get rid of this restriction during the efforts to regulate farming land. Most elders of the villge did not agree to this but in the end they all called a priest and asked him to instruct Yakushi that from now on they would plant persimmon trees 「植えてもよい」.
And indeed, nothing happened when they started planting trees.

. Persimmon (kaki 柿)- Introduction .

耶麻郡 Yama Gun 高郷村 Takasato village
Yakushi Nyorai is said to be a deity to protect the abdomen 腹の神.
His festival in on August 8/9. Children 2 years of age have to visit the Yakushi Temple and lick at the moss of the steps 階段の苔 to keep them safe from stomach ailments.

There is also a Yakushi-Do 北山漆薬師堂　
耶麻郡　北塩原村 at Kita Shiobara Village in Aizu.

. Aizu Wakamatsu 会津若松 Yakushi Pilgrims　薬師参り .

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Iwate 　岩手県
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岩手町 Iwate town

Yakushi Sama no Matsu no Ki 薬師様の松の木 The pine tree of Yakushi
Around 1940 the Pine Tree of Yakushi was sold. When the tree was cut down just like that, they found below it the figure of a woman who had been ill and died.
Sacred trees of a shrine should have a proper ritual before they are cut down. 神社の木は祈祷.

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Yakushi Jinja 薬師神社 Yakushi Shrines in Japan

The deity in residence is usually 少彦名命 Sukuna Hikona no Mikoto
. Sukunahikona no mikoto 少彦名命 .

There are many temples in honor of Yakushi in the Tohoku region.
There are some shrines in his name too, Yakushi Jinja 薬師神社.
. Tono Fudo Myo-O Monogatari 遠野不動明王物語 .

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花巻市 Hanamaki Doochi 道地 Dochi village

Once in his effort to help heal people the statue of Yakushi fell into a river. A farmer picked the statue up and carried it to his home. That night he had a dream: Yakushi asked him to build a small sanctuary 祠. So he built the shrine
Yakushi Jinja 薬師神社 .

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平泉町 Hiraizumi

karasu tengu 烏天狗 Karasu Tengu
In the 中尊寺薬師堂 Yakushi Hall of the temple Chuzon-Ji there are the skull bones of a Karasu Tengu.

. Karasu Tengu 烏天狗 "crow Tengu .

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胆澤郡 Isawa

Gakigishi Myoojin 潟岸明神
During the time of Kinmei Tenno 欽明天皇 (509 - 571) a very jealous wife turned into 蛇 a snake, jumped into the water and cursed all. By chance 佐夜姫 Princess Sayohime passed, read the sutras to appease the soul and then the villagers build the
潟岸薬師堂 Gakigishi Fudo Hall.

松浦佐用姫 About Sayohime
- reference source : thr.mlit.go.jp/isawa/sasala... -

. 小夜姫 / 佐用姫 Princess Sayo Hime from 佐用播州 Sayo in Banshu .
- Hyogo

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盛岡市 Morioka

Asagishi Yakushi Jinja 浅岸薬師神社

The deity in residence is 少彦名命 Sukuna Hikona no Mikoto
. Sukunahikona no mikoto 少彦名命 .

source :　Nachtigall Blaue
Kitakami 北上市村崎野２４地割 and Ofunato 岩手県大船渡市
In the compound of Amaterasu Mioya Jinja 天照御祖神社 there is a 薬師神社 Yakushi Shrine.
People come here to pray for healing of eye diseases.

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. Fukui 福井県 - Yakushi Jinja Shrine .

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. Yakushi Nyorai Legends from Miyagi 宮城県 .

Kinoshita no Yakushi 木ノ下の薬師 Yakushi from Kinoshita village
nabe Yakushi 鍋薬師 Yakushi and the cooking pot
nure Yakushi 濡れ薬師 Yakushi who got wet
Shiga no Yakushi 志賀の薬師 Yakushi from Shiga village
shio no Yakushi 塩の薬師 Yakushi and Salt
sugi Yakushi 杉薬師 Yakushi and the cedar tree

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Yamagata　山梨県

. Yakushisan, Yakushi San 薬師山 Mount Yakushi .

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鶴岡市 Tsuruoka 大広 Daiko

. katame no buna 片目の鮒 crucian carp with one eye .

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米沢市 Yonezawa

. Ono no Komachi no rei 小野小町の霊 spirit of Ono no Komachi .
Captain Fukakusa (Fukakusa no Shoushou 深草少将)
- bijo zuka 美女塚 mound of the beauty

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. Yakushi no Yu 薬師の湯 / Yakushiyu 薬師湯 Yakushi Hot Spring .
お薬師さん温泉 - Yakushi and Onsen Hot springs
many come with their own legend

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- source : nichibun yokai database

YAKUSHI NYORAI, YAKUSHI TATHĀGATA　Buddha of Medicine and Healing
Yakushi literally means Medicine Teacher
Lord of the Eastern Paradise of Pure Lapis Lazuli
(Jp. = Jōruri 浄瑠璃, Skt. = Vaiduryanirbhasa).
Yakushi’s full name is Yakushi-rurikō 薬師瑠璃光,
meaning Medicine Master of Lapis Lazuli Radiance.
Commonly shown holding medicine jar in left hand.
Among the 88 temples on the well-trodden Shikoku Pilgrimage, 23 are dedicated to Yakushi, second only to the 29 sites dedicated to Kannon (Goddess of Mercy).
- source : Mark Schumacher -

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. Yakushi Nyorai - 薬師如来 - Introduction .

The Three Great Yakushi Statues of Tohoku 東北の三大薬師

- source : letuce's room
tba

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2015/04/11

Yakushi Legends Tohoku

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