Kichijoji Adachi Nakao

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Kichijooji, Kichijōji 吉祥寺 Kichijo-Ji, Nakao
寶珠山 Hojuzan 十林院 Tobayashi-In 吉祥寺 Kichijoji

神奈川県さいたま市緑区中尾1410 / Saitama city,Midori ward, Nakao

The main statue is 阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai.

The temple was founded by 慈覚大師 Jigaku Daishi.
It was burned down by soldiers and recontucted by 賴定僧都.
In 1591, after Tokugawa Ieyasu had come to the Kanto area,
he gave the temple more land and made it 御朱印状.
In 1599 on request of 公延親王 Koen Shinno (1762 - 1803)
it became a sub-temple of 輪王寺 Rinno-Ji.
A priest from 寛永寺 Kanei-Ji became the head priest
and 20 more sub-temples were added.
. Ennin -　Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 / 慈覺大師 (794 – 864) .

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shuin　朱印 stamp

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- - - - - Reference of the Temple
- source : wikipedia
- reference source : tesshow -
- reference source : raifuku.net/junrei/busou ... -
- reference source : nippon-reijo.jimdofree ... -

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This Temple is Nr. 04 of the
. Adachi 100 Fudo Temples 足立百不動尊霊場 Pilgrimage .

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .


....................................................................... Aichi 愛知県　
西尾市 Nishio City

fushokubyoo 不食病 fasting disease
In 巨海村 the village of Komi there is 吉祥寺 the Temple Kichijo-Ji.
There lived one nun. She could keep fasting for half a month and even for one month.
香川太仲 Kagawa Tachu called this "fasting disease".
It seems recently more people suffer from this.




....................................................................... Kagawa 香川県　
坂出市 Sakaide city 金山町 Kanayama town

. ryuu, ryū 龍　竜　伝説　Ryu - dragon legends .
At 金山村吉祥寺 the Temple Kichijo-Ji in Kanayama town the priest started fasting before doing
amagoi 雨乞い a rain ritual. When the time was fulfilled,
the priest saw a dragon coming out of the moat and goint up to heaven.
Then a strong rain begun to fall down.
The temple was later re-named to Ryōkō-in Ryōkō-In 龍光院 Ryuko-In.
. amagoi 雨乞いと伝説 Legends about rain rituals .




....................................................................... Kyoto 京都府 　
京都市 Kyoto city 南区 Minami ward

ijuu 異獣 a monster animal
Around 1675, in Kichijomura in the South of Kyoto, the statue of 吉祥天女 Kichijoten was open for public viewing.
Many people from the nearby villages came, chanting the 六斎念仏 Rokusai Nenbutsu prayer. They made a lot of noise with their prayer gongs and prayer drums. Suddenly a huge monster animal came out and run away to hide under the veranda of a village house. They managed to catch it.
If had the face of a tanuki 狸 badger and was black from the nose to the top of the front. The neck was white, the back was black and the stomach was white. Its buttocks looked like a tokkuri 徳利 sake container. It had no tail and looked more like a mole. Its back legs were long like that of a dog.
For its food it would only eat 串柿 dried persimmons on a stick.
. Kichijoojimura 吉祥寺村 Kichijo-Ji village .




....................................................................... Tokyo 東京都　
吉祥寺村 Kichijoji village

. yooji 楊枝 toothpick legends .
In the compound of the 井の頭弁天堂 Bentendo Hall at Inokashira there was yanagi 柳 an old willow tree.
The toothpicks for the third Shogun Iemitsu have been made from its branches.




....................................................................... Yamaguchi 山口県　
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萩市 Hagi city 見島 Mishima

kitoo 祈祷 Kito prayer ritual
Around 1978, a child had a strong scrub. But it was not brought to a hospital,
but send to 吉祥寺 the Temple Kichijo-Ji.
The priest suggested they should go to a hospital, but the family insisted
to have kitoo で祈祷 a Kito prayer ritual instead.
A few days after the ritula, the scrub was gone.
Now the priest felt relieved.

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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