Fudo Hall Legends

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Fudo-Do 不動堂 Legends about a Hall for Fudo Myo-O
不動院 Fudo-In

. Fukagawa Fudo Do 深川不動堂 Tokyo .
This Fudo Hall was the "Edo Branch" of the famous Fudo Temple in Narita.


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....................................................................... Aichi 愛知県

. 高蔵不動院 Takakura Fudo-In .
Nagoya-shi, Atsuta-ku, Takakuracho
"Festival of the Demons of Yakushi Nyorai 大薬師の鬼祭"




....................................................................... Akita 秋田県
仙北郡 Senboku district 西仙北町 Nishi-Senboku town

. nara no ki 楢の木 Nara oak tree, Quercus dentata .
The Nara oak tree in the compound of the temple near 不動堂 the Fudo Hall made scary sounds in the evening.
An itinerant priest promised to make it quiet. He placed a paper strip on it with the inscription
神代よりあた（害）にもならぬ楢の木を、なる木などとは誰かいうらん
Since then the tree did not make sounds any more and soon withered.




....................................................................... Kanagawa 神奈川県
横浜市南区蒔田町 / Yokohama, Minami ward, Maita

. tetsushibari Fudo, tetsu shibari 鉄縛り不動 "Fudo bound by iron" .




....................................................................... Kyoto 京都府
加佐郡 Kasa district 大江町 Oe town

. 酒呑童子 Shuten Doji "Sake Child" Demon .
不動堂 Fudo Hall below the waterfall 千丈ヶ滝下 Senjogataki

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京都市 Kyoto city

Fudo Hall in 鞍馬 Kurama
. Tengu 天狗 and 一条頼重 Ichijo Yorishige .

. Kiyotaki Fudo-In 京都清滝不動院 .
and the tsuchinoko hebi 槌の子蛇 hammerspawn




....................................................................... Miyagi 宮城県
Miyagi 刈田郡 Katta district 七ヶ宿町 Shichikashuku town

. Zaimokuiwa 材木岩 Timber Rocks and 不動堂 Fudo Hall .

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Miyagi 仙台市 Sendai city 太白区 Taihaku ward

. Akiu Otaki 秋保大滝 Akiu Great Falls .
and Priest Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 Ennin.

At the waterfall 全川瀑 Zensenbaku of 名取川 the river Natorigawa priest Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 prayed to Fudo Myo-O at the temple 山寺立石寺 Yamadera Risshaku-Ji.
In 1623, the lord of Yamagata 鳥居忠政 Torii Tadamasa (1566 - 1628) had a conflict with the Temple.
The priest 円海上人 held a special ritual at the waterfall for 37 days to curse Tadamasa.
On the last day he threw the paper with his vow and a wara ningyo 藁人形 a straw doll for curses into the waterfall basin.
The straw doll flew up the waterfall for 56 meters and disappeared.
The priest built a kyoodan 経壇 kyodan platform for sutras in front of the Fudo Hall.
Since then it is called Kyodanbara 経壇原 Field of the Platform Sutra。




....................................................................... Yamagata 山形県
東田川郡 Higashi-Tagawa district 庄内町 Shonai town

. ryuukotsu 竜骨と伝説 Ryukotsu, Legends about dragon bones .
Around 1870, there was a great thunderstorm, hitting 巨杉 the great Sugi tree in the compound of 不動堂 the Fudo Hall, so it burned down.
From the ruins of the tree they found almost two buckets full of strange white bones.
People said it were the bones from the dragon who lived at the foot of the tree.

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Yamagata 最上郡 Mogami district 金山町 Kaneyama town

. shishigashira 獅子頭 lion head .
In former times there were no shishigashira 獅子頭 lion heads in 柳原集落 the Yanagihara hamlet.
In 1890, a villager from 稲沢集落 Inazawa hamlet had stolen the lion heads from Yanagihara, but he soon died.
The person whom he had given the lion heads also died.
A person who offered them to 不動堂 the Fudo Hall also died.

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Yamagata 西置賜郡 Nishi-Okitama district 小国町 Oguni town // 不動院

山形県西置賜郡小国町片貝上の平 3-6
When a new family moved here, they were asked by 不動院 the temple Fudo-In wether they wanted onsen 温泉 hot water or just water.
They choose water and since then there is kiyomizu 清水 clear water coming out of their well.

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. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
A servant went cutting weeds in the morning and did not come back.
When they asked at 不動院 the temple Fudo-In they were told he was bewitched by a fox.
The family put some azukimeshi 小豆飯 rice with red beans in the back of the home and next morning it was gone.
Six days later they found the man in the outskirts of the village.
He did not remember anything.


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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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