Yakushi Onsen

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Yakushi Onsen 薬師温泉 Hot Springs named Yakushi
Yakushi no Yu 薬師の湯 - Yakushi Yu 薬師湯

. Legends about Onsen Hot Springs　温泉と伝説 .
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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

There are various hot springs including the name of Yakushi.

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....................................................................... Aomori 青森県

. Osorezan 恐山薬師の湯 Yakushi no Yu onsen hot spring .

....................................................................... Fukui 福井県

. Awara Onsen あわら温泉 .
田中温泉薬師神社 Tanaka Onsen Yakushi Jinja
舟津温泉薬師堂　Funatsu Onsen Yakushi-Do hall
二面温泉薬師堂　Futaomote Onsen Yakushi-Do hall

....................................................................... Gifu 岐阜県

. Gero Onsen 下呂温泉 Gero Hot Spring Spa .
Onsenji 温泉寺　Onsen-ji and Yakushi

....................................................................... Gunma 群馬県

群馬県の薬師温泉 Yakushi Onsen in Gunma

Located in the remotest part of the Asama-Kakushi Onsen Area
3330-20 Motojuku, Higashiagatsuma-machi, Agatsuma-gun, Gunma

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Kayabuki no Sato Yakushi Onsen Hatago
Located in the mountains of Gunma, Yakushi Onsen Hatago realized fairly early on the piece that it was important ? if not essential ? to preserve the traditional elements of a specific locality as much as possible. The owners of the rustic onsen decided to go one step further and make such vestiges the main attraction.

The hotel’s roots can be traced all the way back to the late-18th century, when a monk stumbled across the remote hot spring inn whilst making his spiritual journey across the country. Its trademark hospitality was the same back then as it is now, offering all guests a clean, warm environment, personal attention and simple fresh cuisine.
So idyllic is the location that it’s easy to imagine the monk made a return journey along the same route.
- source : www.yakushi-hatago.co.jp -

....................................................................... Hyogo 兵庫県

Tanba Sasayama Onsen 丹波篠山温泉 - Konda Yakushi Onsen こんだ薬師温泉
(photo at the top of this page)

The Onsen is located on a small hill, on its top is a sanctuary for Yakushi Nyorai.
At the bottom of the hill is the Konda Yakushi Onsen.
One of its hot bath's is made of 丹波焼 Tanbayaki pottery. The outdoor hot bath is made with special stones from the area, 丹波石.

兵庫県篠山市今田町今田新田21-10 - Nukumori no Sato
- source : yume-konda.com -

....................................................................... Mie 三重県
和歌山県 Wakayama is a related location.

. Oguri Hangan 小栗判官 and Yunomine Onsen 湯の峰温泉 .

....................................................................... Nagano 長野県

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田沢温泉 Tazawa Onsen

yugen gongen, yu no minamoto Gongen 湯源権現 The Deity to protect the Hot Water Well

Once upon a time, this deity appeared in the dream of the ascet En no Gyoja and asked him to built a hot spring in Tazawa. After that he build the small shrine for the deity as protector of the Hot Spring 湯源権現社.
This shrine dates back to the time of 持統天皇 Emperor Jito Tenno (645 - 702).

source : akira_o2ka
湯原権現社 Yugen Gongen、天満天神宮 Tenman Tenjin 、稲荷大明神の石祠 Inari Daimyojin

Also known as the Three Shrine Deities of the Hot Spring 温泉天神社.

To our day, people come here to worship and have a festival on the 88th day 八十八夜 from the beginning of Spring.
It used to be the 8th day of the 4th lunar month, now usually celebrated on May 2.

. En-no-Gyôja 役行者 En no Gyoja, Jimpen Dai-Bosatsu (634 - 701).

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Hashiriyu Gongen 走湯権現 (そうとうごんげん) Soto Gongen, Hot Spring Deity

source : city.atami.shizuoka.jp/page

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Izusan Gongen　伊豆山権現
also called Hashiriyu Gongen 走湯権現
A deity associated with a hot spring which wells up on Izusan 伊豆山, a hill of 166m in Shizuoka prefecture close to the sea coast. A shrine was raised to the deity in the early 9c. In the late Heian period an Esoteric Buddhist mikkyou 密教 temple called Hannya-in 般若院 was built on Izusan.
The sculpture of Izusan Gongen that was the principal image of Hannya-in survives. He originally held a mace shaku 笏 and a halberd houbou 宝鉾. He wears a court hat, court robes, and kesa 袈裟 (Buddhist robes).
This combination expresses particularly well the unity of Buddhism and Shinto shinbutsu shuugou 神仏習合.
In the Kamakura period, Izusan became a mountain used for ascetic practice shugendou 修験道 (see En no Gyouja 役の行者), and was linked with Hakone 箱根 as a pilgrimage destination, receiving government patronage. Izusan remained well known as a shugendo sacred mountain until the early Meiji period, when the site was made Shinto and the Buddhist objects scattered. A Buddhist manifestation honjibutsu 本地仏 of Izusan Gongen is the Thousand-armed Kannon, Senju Kannon 千手観音.
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Yu Gongen Sha 湯権現社 - 宝光寺 - 平井村 - 本地 Incarnation of Fudo Myo-O 不動明王
湯権現社　境内、裏門の辺にあり、不動の木像を神体とす、前に出せし温泉鎮護の為に勧請する処なりと云、鳥居に鹿湯大権現の五字を扁せり、社前に石灯籠一基あり、銘に武州多磨郡平井郷塩沢山湯権現宝前、従五位下溝口豊前守源信勝、貞享三丙寅年十一月如意日、溝口源左衛門と鐫す
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Yakushi Kan 薬師館 Yakushi Hotel
at the foot of Mount Asama

The hot spring was founded in the Edo period by the lord of Komuro castle 小諸城. In former timed during the memorial day for Yakushi Nyorai there was a festival where many people met and many young couples found each other.
So to our day this Yakushi is famous for bringing together people.

長野県小諸市菱平7
- source : www.yakushikan.com -

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小諸市 Komoro

Hishinomura no nana fushigi 菱野村の七不思議
Yakushi no koomyoo 薬師湯の光明 the rays of Yakushi

御仏の影やうつると見ゆばかり光清くも澄める御湯かな。
Yakushiyu has been found by 弘法大師 Kobo Daishi Kukai.
And even 源頼朝 Minamoto no Yoritomo has bathed here.

Omachi Onsen - 薬師の湯 Yakushi no Yu

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Yakushi-no-Yu is Omachi Onsen’s main bathhouse.

One of the indoor baths is pure onsen water but the temperature was so low, nobody was bathing in it. Instead, everyone was in the larger indoor bath which is heated and recirculated. The outdoor bath was spacious but would have been more enjoyable if it had a view of the Alps. The outdoor bath made of river rocks is only operating in the summer.
- source : www.go-nagano.net
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松本市 Matsumoto

. Shiraito Onsen 白糸温泉 .

....................................................................... Oita　大分県
Beppu

清寧山 Seineizan Kankaiji 観海寺 -　Kankai-Ji

. Onsen Yakushi 温泉薬師 "Yakushi Nyorai of the Hot Spring .
Empress Gensho Tenno 元正天皇 and Yakushi Nyorai　薬師如来

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邇摩郡 Nima district - 温泉津 Yunotsu Hot Spring

Yakushi no men 薬師の面 mask of Yakushi
To have the mask of Yakushi at the tempel 山田寺 Yamadadera laquered anew, the mask was sent to Kyoto to a certain craftsman. This man knew that things made from this tree would eventually make him a rich man, so he made a mask from a different wood and tried to sent it back.
But the mask became very angry about this, so he threw it into the sea and told it to find its way back to Yamadera in 八代 Yashiro. The mask landed at the beach of 温泉津 Yunotsu village. A child picked it up and began to dance with it, when the headman of Yashiro village saw her and took the mask home.
That night he had a dream when the makuragami 枕神 "god of the dream pillow", with the mask appeared by his bedside and told him to bring the mask back to the temple Yamadadera.

....................................................................... Tottori 鳥取県

. Yoshioka Onsen 吉岡温泉 Hot Spring .
The Elder Ashioka 葦岡長者

....................................................................... Wakayama 和歌山県

Hanayama Onsen 花山温泉　Yakushi no Yu　薬師の湯

Kansai's strongest Therapeutic Hydrogen Carbonate Hot Spring Hanayama Onsen Yakushi no Yu is very close to Wakayama Interchange and its features are a high density of active elements and the reddish brown water of an iron carbonate onsen. The water temperature from the source is 26ºC. By alternately soaking in the source bath and the large public bath that is heated to 42ºC, it is possible to obtain even further effects from bathing.
574 Narukami Wakayama City
- source : www.hanayamaonsen.com -

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青葉蔭薬師瑠璃光の出湯とぞ
aobakage yakushi ruriko no ideyu tozo

shade under green leaves -
that's just right for a hot bath
of Yakushi Nyorai

高橋睦郎 Takahashi Mutsuo (1937 - )

the most prominent and prolific male poets, essayists, and writers of contemporary Japan, with more than three dozen collections of poetry, several works of prose, dozens books of essays, and several major literary prizes to his name.
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かつこうや山の湯の薬師さんの白い障子
kakkoo ya yama no yu no yakushi san no shiroi shooji

this cuckoo -
a Yakushi hot spring in the mountains
with white sliding doors

Hagiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水 (1884 - 1976)
pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi

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百日紅散る湯の町の薬師堂
sarusuberi chiru yu no machi no yakushi doo

the Yakushi Hall
in a hot spring town
where crape myrtle is scattering

増田善昭 Masuda Yoshiaki

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2015/07/08

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