Daikoin Ichihara Futsukaichiba

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Daikooin 大光院 Daiko-In, Futsukaichiba
智光山 Chikozan 無量寺 Muryo-Ji 大光院 Daikoin

市原市二日市場４７５ / Ichihara city, Futsukaichiba

The date of the founding is not clear. It was most probably founded in the Early Edo Period.
It was relocated from 寺谷村 Teratani village to its present place.

Not much information is found online.

大光院石塔群 A group of stone pagodas in the compound:

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- source : google Daikoin
- reference source : tesshow -
- reference source : nippon-reijo.jimdofree ... -

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This Temple is Nr. 26 of the
. Ichihara 市原郡八十八ヶ所霊場 88 Temples Pilgrimage .

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大光院の子育て呑竜の忌日かな
Daikoin no kosodate Konryuu no imibi kana

田中星児 Tanaka Seiji

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

....................................................................... Gunma 群馬県　
太田市 Ota city 金山町 Kanayama town

. kaminari 雷と伝説 Legends about Thunder and Lightning .
On the day before 呑龍上人 Saint Donryu performed water rituals at 大光院 the Temple Daiko-In
there was a strong thunderstorm and lightning fell down.
Saint Donryu performed special rituals to calm the weather.
Now the Deity of Thunderstorms promised not to let lightning fall again.
This is the origin of the expression Donryu Raijo 呑龍雷除.
. Donryu Shonin 呑龍上人 Saint Donryu (1556 - 1623) .

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kiguchi 木口 the cut end of a fallen tree
The Temple 大光院 Daiko-In has the family graves of 新田家 the Nitta clan.
Near the grave of 新田義重 Nitta Yoshishige (1135 - 1202) is 大松 a huge pine tree.
. matsu 松と伝説 Legends about the pine tree / 松の木 matsu no ki .
During a strong storm around 1800 it fell down.
When people looked at the cut end of the broken tree, it looked like 葵の葉の形 an Aoi leaf.

aoi is a plant of the Malvaceae group.
mitsuba aoi, Aoi with three leaves - "triple hollyhock", is the crest of the Tokugawa clan.

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. kaeru 蛙 frog legends .
呑竜上人 Saint Donryu Shonin (1556 - 1632)
When 呑竜上人 Saint Donryu Shonin visited the Temple Daiko-In,
he sealed the mouth of the frogs in the pond,
so they could not make any sound any more.




....................................................................... Ibaraki 茨城県　
那珂郡 Naka district

kitsune tsuki 狐憑き bewitched by a fox
Once upon a time, there was a woman who suddenly behaved quite strange.
She undressed and put on a man's loincloth.
Then the stood on her head.
People asked the young priest from 大光院 the Temple Daiko-In for help.
He said she was bewitched by a fox and they should give her fried Tofu
and other food that a fox liked.
. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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