Myooji Tokai Sekigahara

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Myooooji 妙応寺 Myoo-Ji, Sekigahara
青坂山 Aosakazan 妙応寺 Myooji

岐阜県不破郡関ヶ原町今須2591-1 / Gifu, Fuwa, Sekigahara town, Imasu

The main statue is 釈迦牟尼仏 Shakamuni Gautama Buddha.

About 600 years ago in 1360, the mother names「妙応」Myoo of the lord 長江重景 Nagae Kageshige
died and went to hell, because she had been greedy and quite inhuman.
High priest 大徹宗令禅師 Daitetsu Sorei Zenshi, who passed the area by chance,
heared the story and held a special ritual for her.
Her son 長江重景 Nagae Kageshige built the temple Myoo-Ji in her honor.
The special name of the statue became ko harami Yakushi 子孕み薬師 "the pregnant Yakushi".

家康公がの腰掛石 the Stone were Tokugawa Ieyasu used to sit and rest

地獄谷伝説 The legend of the Valley of Hell
In the early Muromachi period (1336 - 1573) a priest came to the Kannon Hall in Imasu and stayed over night.
There appeared two demons, put an old woman on skwwers and ate her.
The next morning the lord 長江重景 Nagae Shigekage, who had stayed in the Temple,
learned, that the old woman was his mother 妙応 Myoo, who had died.


Stone pagodas in the compound

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shuin　朱印 stamp

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This temple is Nr. 13 of the pilgrimage
. 東海49薬師 Tokai Pilgrimage to 49 Yakushi temples .

Also on the pilgrimage 美濃三十三霊場 to 33 Temples in Mino - Nr. 18.

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