Yakushi legends 10 Tochigi Tokushima Tottori

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and
legends from Tochigi 栃木県, Tokushima 徳島県 and Tottori 鳥取県

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Tochigi 栃木県

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芳賀郡 Haga 茂木町 Motegi

kome-togi baa sama 米とぎ婆さま old hag washing rice
Near the Yakushi temple there is the old hag washing rice.
She washes and polishes rice in the evening, singing this song:
「米とぎ婆さま晩方さあらさら。薬師様さあらさら。子供さろべとさあらさら。」

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鹿沼市 Kanuma

In front ot the home of the 上沢氏 Kamisawa family there is a 薬師堂 Yakushi Do Hall.
When washing the eyes at a well nearby, the eyes are healed. But the water has now dried up.

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鶏足寺 Keisokuk-Ji "Temple dedicated to the legs of a hen"
本尊：七仏薬師 Shichibutsu Yakushi
足利市小俣町2748-1 // 2748 Omatachō, Ashikaga-shi, Tochigi

. Shichibutsu Yakushi　七仏薬師 / 七佛薬師 Seven Yakushi Statues .

source : .city.ashikaga.tochigi.jp/site/bunkazai...

The statue is 52 cm high. End of Heian or beginning of Kamakura period.
In the compound of 鶏足寺 Keisoku-Ji was a hall dedicated to the Buddha of Medicine, 医王堂本堂.

. Keisokuji 鶏足寺 Keisoku-Ji Temple of the chicken legs .
Three temples with this name, each with a legend of its own.

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- - - - - Yakushi Temples in Tochigi

長樂寺 Choraku-Ji
那須郡那須町寺子丙1404

医王寺 Io-Ji
足利市田中町454

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Tokushima 徳島県
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海部郡 Ama district 宍喰町 Shishikui

tanuki 狸 badger
Once upon a time there lived a Tanuki near the Yakushi Do Hall. He would play a trick on the villagers : When they went to bed with their head facing South, they would wake up next morning with the head facing North (kitamakura, pillow in the North).

kitamakura 北枕
Living people should never sleep with their pillow facing North.
This is the position for placing a dead body in the home, before the funeral.

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美馬郡 Mima district つるぎ町 Tsurugi

. ikiryoo 生霊 . 生き霊 Ikiryo“living spirit” .
Around 1670, a man had made a promise to marry a woman, but did not keep it and married another woman.
The insulted woman went to the Yakushi Do Hall and hit the eyes, ears and breast of the Yakushi statue with a cursing nail. The new wife begun to suffer from possessions and could not be healed. Even a mountain priest performing sacred rituals could not get her rid of the bad spirit.

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- 12 Yakushi Temples in Tokushima
- reference source : yaokami.jp/tokushima -

井戸寺 Ido-Ji
本尊：七仏薬師如来 Seven Yakushi Statues
徳島市国府町井戸北屋敷80-1

薬王寺 Yakuo-Ji
本尊：厄除薬師如来 Yakuyoke Yakushi Nyorai
海部郡美波町奥河内寺前285-1

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Tottori 鳥取県　

Kurayoshi, Sakura village 倉吉市桜
大日寺は寺伝に承和8年（841）Temple Dainichi-Ji
Statue by Ennin -　Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 / 慈覺大師 (794 – 864)
慈覚大師円仁の開基、永延2年（988）恵心僧都の再興とされる。本像は、桧又は榧の一木造りで、像高152.0cm。
肉身部は黄土彩、着身部はベンガラ彩の朱衣金体を呈し、両膝に見られる同心円状の衣文にも特徴がある。丸みを帯びた大らかな作風で、平安中期～後期の造像とみられる。
一木造りの、県内に残る数少ない平安時代の仏像として、価値が高い。
- reference source : db.pref.tottori.jp/bunkazainavi.nsf... -

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

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. Yakushi no men 薬師の面 Yakushi Nyorai mask .
and the makuragami 枕神 "god of the pillow"

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hebi 蛇 serpent
Once a villager found a large pot in the forest behind the temple 薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji. In it was a dead serpent, but on the bottom was a liquid substance like 漆 laquer.
He took the pot home and gave the pot to the priest of the temple, and the scales of the serpent to his neighbour.
And oh wonder, the family of this old man became rich all of a sudden. This must have been the gratitude of the serpent. Later he gave the scales of the serpent to the local 弁天さん Benten Shrine.

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Yakushizoo 薬師像 statue of Yakushi
There lived a dangerous bandit, called 金屋の千賊 Kanaya no Senzo. The lord Chunagon 中納言藤原行平 Fujiwara no Yukihira came all the way from Kyoto to fight him, but after many years of fighting he was not successful. So Yukihira had to give up his title of lord and retired.
He made a vow to 天地神明 the deities of Heaven and Earth, and then carved 14 statues of Yakushi Nyorai. He threw the statues into the river and kept praying to be able to win over Senzo. With the help of the deities, he could eventually win and was able to go back to Kyoto.
One day when he was playing Go, there was a voice: "Hello Chunagon!"
When he looked outside, there was one of the statues of Yakushi Nyorai.
Kanaya is a mountain village, in Kotoura, Tohaku District, Tottori.

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西伯郡 Nishi-Hoki gun 中山町 Nakayama village

tawara Yakushi 俵薬師 Yakushi and a bale of rice
A man always told lies and got his riches by cheating other people, even killing a blind man. One day out of his storage house with the bales of rice he had aquired there came a statue of Yakushi Nyorai.
So he finally changed his mind, cut his hair and became a monk, venerating the statue until he died.

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紙本著色俵薬師縁起絵 Shihon Chakushoku Tawara Yakushi Engi E

This paining is from the legend of the tempel Tofuku-Ji 東福寺:
Once upon a time
they found a statue of Yakushi at the beach and stuffed into a straw bale to carry it to the temple, hence the name "Straw Yakushi".
The top part shows some temples and shrines, below are farmers, fishermen and other people busy with the statue.

一宮町一宮　東福寺
- source : town.ichinomiya.chiba.jp

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東伯郡 Tohaku district 琴浦町 Kotoura

The Yakushi Statue of the temple in 向原 Mukaihara had been found on the beach and brought here. But after that, there were many ill people in the village and many had bad dreams.
An oracle told them to bring the statue to a place where it could not hear the sound of the waves:
灘の音のしない所に祀ってくれ!
Now people come here to pray for healing of breast diseases.

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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2018/02/14

Yakushi legends 10 Tochigi Tokushima Tottori

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