Yakushi Legends 04 Fukui to Hyogo

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from
Fukui 福井県, Gifu　岐阜県, Gunma 群馬県, Hiroshima 広島県 and Hyogo 兵庫県

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. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Fukui 福井県 .
with many photos of Yakushi Statues.

source : info.pref.fukui.jp/bunka/bunkazai...

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Gifu 岐阜県

薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji

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. 円空上人と小さな仏さまたち Saint Enku and the small Buddha Statues .
- 飛騨の国の正宗寺 - Temple Shoso-Ji in Hida // kamishibai 紙芝居

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益田郡 Mashita district 下呂町 Gero

Two legends about an ema 絵馬 votive tablet painted with a horse:
蚕飼薬師堂 Kogai Yakushi Hall
上原村薬師堂 Ueharamura Yakushi Hall

Once 狩野法眼 Kano Hogen painted a votive tablet of a horse. But the horse left the plate every night and devastated the fields. So eventually he painted some golden braidle to keep it in place.

. Kano Eitoku 狩野永徳 - 古法眼 Kohogen, . (1543 - 1590)

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多治見市 Tajimi town

Yakushi no tatari 薬師の祟り the curse of Yakushi
At the temple Gensho-Ji 元晶寺 in 小泉村根本 the hamlet Nehon of Koizumi village, there is a golden statue of Yakushi of the size 1寸8分
(1 sun 寸 is about 3 cm, 1 bu 分 is about 1/10 of a sun).
A young farmer's girl had found it along the river Kisogawa, but wherever it was kept, it brought misfortune to the people.
Finally it was therefore dedicated at the temple in Nehon 根本.

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Gunma 群馬県

source : city.midori.gunma.jp/www/contents
みどり市 Midori city

. 円空上人と小さな仏さまたち Saint Enku and the small Buddha Statues .

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太田市 Ota

Yoneyama Yakushi 米山薬師
Once a man as large as the Daibutsu took the 米山薬師 Yakushi from Yoneyama on his back, set it up at 丸山 Maruyama, sat down at 金山 Kaneyama and washed his feet in the river 渡良瀬川 Watarasegawa.
His straw boots became the Big and Small Mount Maruyama 大丸山 - 小丸山.

米山薬師 Yoneyama Yakushi

- many other Yoneyama Yakushi in Japan, here are just two of them:
米山薬師、Kagoshima-ken, 姶良市　Aira-shi, 鍋倉 Nabekura
米山まいり / 米山薬師堂 in Niigata, 柏崎市 Kashiwasaki
- reference source : lib.city.kashiwazaki.niigata.jp... -

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多野郡 Tano district 神流町 Kanna

daija 大蛇 great serpent
At the 池の薬師 Yakushi Pond there lived a husband and wife serpent. The husband snake got killed by a shot. The wife snake shapeshifted into a young woman, went to the temple and told the priest about it. Then she disappeared.
Later when the priest went to the pond to perform amagoi 雨乞い rain rituals, it would always rain after his prayers.

. daija, orochi 大蛇 the huge serpent, great snake .

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Hiroshima 広島県

広島県の文化財
- reference source : Hiroshima Bunkazai List -

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呉市 Kure 蒲刈町 Kamagari

hi no tama 火の玉 ball of fire
Around 1898 on a summer night it was raining heavily. From the temple of Yakushi there came three balls of fire rolling over toward the beach and disappeared.
Since Yakushi and the deity 明神 Myojin are enshrined in the same temple, some villagers said it might have been Myojin.

. hinotama, hi no tama 火の玉と伝説 Legends about fire balls .

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Jizoo sama 地蔵様 Jizo Bosatsu
Once upon a time a fisherman wanted to take the Jizo statue from the Yakushi temple home, but it was so heavy he could not bring it to his boat, so he threw the statue into the water.
A few days later a man walked along the beach and saw a strange sparkle in the water - It was the statue of Jizo!
He saved it and brought it back to the Yakushi temple.

. Legends about Jizo Bosatsu - 地蔵菩薩 .

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Hyogo 兵庫県

- reference : Hyogo Yakushi Bunkazai -

- Legends about Saint Gyoki Bosatsu and
. Arima Onsen　有馬温泉 Hot Spring .
Kobu-zaka (Lump Slope)
In olden times, there was a sick man with a big "kobu (lump)", over his eye. Hoping to be cured, he went to Arima Onsen and prayed to Yakushi Nyorai to heal him. Despite coming all the way to Arima and bathing in the hot springs, he was not cured. Resigned to his fate, the sick person decided to leave Arima.
Incidentally,
there is a slope to the east of Arima. As the sick man was walking up the slope to leave Arima, the lump miraculously dropped from above his eye like ripe fruit dropping from a tree. When people heard about that they started calling the place "Kobu-zaka (Lump Slope)". This sloping path going from Arima Onsen to Zuihoji Temple is now neatly paved.

. 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu (668 - 749) .

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伊丹市 Itami

katame uo 片目魚 / 片目の魚 fish with one eye
At the pond 昆陽池 Koya-Ike there are many fish with only one eye.
Once upon a time, 行基上人 Saint Gyoki Bosatsu found a man lying by the roadside and wanted to bring him to 有馬温泉 Arima Hot Spring. But the man could not move and only murmured he wanted to eat some fresh fish. When Gyoki found a fish and offered him to eat it, the man said, Gyoki should eat first. So Gyoki ate half of the fish, including one eye.
Now the man said he had black pocks all over his body and wanted Gyoki to lik them. When Goyki started to lik his skin, the man suddenly changed and stood there as Yakushi Nyorai.
He had only tried the purity of Saint Gyoki.
The fish was thrown into the pond, but now he had only one eye.

Koyaike is now a place name in Itami, where there is a park, 昆陽池公園.

月なくて昼は霞むや昆陽の池
tsuki nakute hiru wa kasumu ya Koya no Ike

there is no moon
and haze during the day -
Koyaike Pond

. Uejima Onitsura 上島鬼貫 (1660-1738) .

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神戸市 Kobe 東灘区 Higashinada ward

Yakushi Ishi 薬師石 Yakushi Stone
Near West Hirano Village 西平野村 in the direction of Daibutsuhara 大仏原 there is an old Kofun in the pine grove. In the hall is a "Yakushi Stone" 薬師石.
Once a carpenter 大工 wanted to build a house and this stone was in his way, so he wanted to dig it up. But things did not go so smooth. The carpenter was dead from a stomach illness withing three days.
So a statue of Yakushi Nyorai was placed before it to appease the stone.

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Raijin and Yakushi sama 雷神と薬師様
Once upon a time
the God of Lightning fell into a tree, but Yakushi got hold of him, before much damage happened.
Since that time there are no more lightning accidents in 有馬 Arima.

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神戸市 Kobe　西区　Nishi ward

Taisanji 太山寺 / たいさんじ Taisan-Ji (Daisen-Ji)
The statue of 播州明石郡大山寺 Yakushi Nyorai of this temple always started to sweat very much shortly before a disaster would happen in Japan, in order to warn the people.

Sanshinzan Taisan-ji 三身山太山寺
It was established on orders of Empress Gensho in 716, who had a dream about Yakushi Nyorai.

. Genshō Tennō 元正天皇 and Yakushi Nyorai .
and the 勅願寺 Chokugan-Ji, "Imperial Temples".

- Homepage of temple Taisan-Ji
- reference source : do-main.co.jp/taisanji -
Pilgrim Temple Nr. 1 of the Banshu Yakushi Temples 播州薬師第一番霊場
and on four other pilgrim routes in the region.

. 播州薬師霊場 Yakushi pilgrim temples in Banshu / Harima / Hyogo .

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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2018/02/02

Yakushi Legends 04 Fukui to Hyogo

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