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2015/05/12

Jizo Mochi Legends

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Legends about Jizo Bosatsu and mochi rice cakes - 地蔵と餅

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Jizomochi 地蔵餅 the name of sweet shops
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. Botamochi Jizo ぼた餅地蔵 .
legends from various parts of Japan


In some legends, Jizo eats the Mochi offerings, in others they are made in greatfulness.




Jizomochi 地蔵餅 the real thing


and for good measure
soba kui Jizo そば喰地蔵 Jizo eating Buckwheat noodles (see below)

もぐもぐ地蔵 mogumogu Jizo munching rice balls

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..................................................... Aomori 青森県 .....................................................

クニチ,シトギマワシ Kunichi September 9
shitogi mawashi シトギマワシ passing Shitogi Mochi around

On the days with nine in the ninth lunar month (09, 19 and 29) it is customary to prepare Shitogi Mochi with the newly harvested rice and offer them to the deity.
The last one of these days, shime kunichi シメクニチ 29, is also called
shitogi mawashi シトギマワシ.
The old ladies and housewifes offer three each to Inari, 月山様 Gassan, 日月様 Deities of Sun and Moon, Jizo, 馬の神様 the Deity of horses, Fudo Myo-O, 金精様 Konsei sama (Deity of the Male Symbol) and 権現様 Gongen sama.

「クニヂにの、餅食わねばホイド抜げネ」


. shitogi mochi しとぎもち / しとぎ餅 fried or uncooked rice cakes .
First made as offerings for the deities, later eaten by the family.



..................................................... Hyogo 兵庫県 .....................................................

氷上郡 Hikami gun

天神,地蔵,川の主

男が、嫁が産気づいたので産婆を呼びに行ったが、その途中で天神さんが地蔵さんに今度生まれるのが男の子で15歳で大井川の主の餌食になるというのを聞いた。子供が15歳になったとき、江戸へ行く用事ができたが、父の言うとおり大井川に1升3合の餅を播いたら83までの寿命を与えられた。


..................................................... Ibaraki 栃木県 .....................................................

芳賀郡 茂木町

昔、お婆さんが座敷の真中で白く光る変なものを見つけた。それは1粒の米で、餅について食べることになったが、団子にしたら転がっていって地蔵さんに食べられた。そのかわりに地蔵から搗いても搗いても搗ききれない米をもらい、餅を搗くとたくさん出来たので村の人にわけてやったという。




..................................................... Iwate 岩手県 .....................................................

tanaka no Jizo 田中の地蔵 Jizo in the fields

There was a stone statue of Jizo. This Jizo would become the play companion for children. And sometimes it would eat azuki mochi 小豆餅 red bean mochi .

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- another legend with azuki mochi 小豆餅

Yamagata 山形県, Asahimachi 朝日町



yodare Jizo よだれ地蔵
よだれ地蔵様は、よだれや疳を治してくれる子育て地蔵です。今でも遠くから参拝に来る人が大勢います。祈願の時は小豆餅を供え、地蔵様の口元にあんこを塗り、小豆餅断ちを約束し、治った時は地蔵様に帽子やよだれかけ、鐘の緒とともにお菓子を供えてお礼参りをします。
江戸時代の中頃、楯岡から運ばれていた地蔵様の荷車が突然動かなくなり、地蔵様が「私はこの美しい地にとどまり、民衆を救いたい」と言いました。村人達は大喜びし、お堂を建てて祭ったのだそうです。
- source : asahi-ecom.jp -

. yodarekake よだれ掛け - 涎掛け bib, baby bib .
Jizo with a red bib




..................................................... Miyagi 宮城県 .....................................................

awamochi 粟餅を食った地蔵様 Jizo Bosatsu eating Millet Mochi




Once upon a time,
the kind and honest 正兵衛 Shobei and the greedy 慾兵衛 Yokubei lived in a village. The poor Shobei, who could not afford Mochi made from white rice, pounded some of millet and offered it to the deities.
His neighbour Yokubei was quite rich and pounded white Mochi.
Shobei wanted to make some offerings to the Jizo statue by the river, so he put some Millet Mochi in his bag and took a bucket to get New Year's Water by the river. He walked along the river, but when he wanted to put the Mochi up as an offering for Jizo, he could not find them any more. They must have slipped out of his pocket somehow, so he apologized profoundly to Jizo.
And well, Jizo answered:
"I just ate your Mochi which have come floating past. They were quite delicious!"
When Shobei looked more closely, he could see some powder around the mouth of the Jizo statue.
So Shobei thanked Jizo with all his heart and went home.
On the way home his bucked suddenly felt very heavy and when he looked inside at his home, he found that it was filled with small and large gold coins.
When Yokubei heard the story from Shobei, he got all envious and went down to the river himself. He stuffed some of his white Mochi into the mouth of the statue and then hurried home.
But his bucket was filled with heavy stones and horse excrements . . .




..................................................... Niigata 新潟県 .....................................................

kasa Jizo 笠地蔵 Six Jizo with straw hats

冬の夜、山奥でお婆さんと二人で暮らしていたお爺さんが、菅笠を売りに町へ行ったおり、雪をかぶっていたお地蔵さんに笠をかぶせたところ、そのお地蔵さんが恩返しに餅をついてくれた。
To thank Jizo, Grandfather made some Mochi for him.

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Since there was more food than the old couple could eat, they had the mice invite their animal friends over, and everybody prepared the food together. Then the old man stacked the boxes of special New Year's food and rice cakes that they had made and took them to the Jizo-sama statues.
"Jizo-sama. Now I can make you an offering. Thank you."



One of the most popular legends, look here for translations:
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..................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県 .....................................................
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引佐郡 Inasa gun

Awamochi Jizo 粟餅地蔵 Jizo eating millet Mochi
During the 南北朝時 Nanbokuchoera (around 1500) there was a person with a lantern standing in front of 奥山城 Okuyama Castle every night. A servant thought this rather strange and went looking, but he fell asleep soon. When he woke up he saw something very strange, took his sword and cut it into two parts, the he run back home immediately. When he went back the next morning, he saw a statue of Jizo Bosatsu cut into two. This Jizo had been erected to prevent wild boars from doing harm to the nearby fields.
Since the servant had cut the statue, the man with the lantern had not been seen again. 奥山六郎次郎朝藤 Lord Okuyama Rokuro Jiro Asafuji had the statue re-built and placed it there again, but next morning it was split into two again. Every time the statue was re-built, this happened again.
The name of this statue is not quite clear.



..................................................... Toyama 富山県 .....................................................

昔、
富山湾の海辺の町に、お花という十ほどの娘がまま母と住んでおった。
お花は毎日、寺の地蔵堂の前でもちを売っておった。まま母はいつも、
「売れ残ったら、家には入れんよ」
ときつく言っておったもんで、お花は一つでもようけ売ろうとがんばった。
けれど、きょうのようにてんで運のない日もある。日も暮れようというのに、もち箱はまだズシリと重たいのだ。腹が減り、疲れて肩も首も痛くて、お花はもち箱の上に頭をたれた。小さな鼻先にもち粉がつき、ほわん、とよいにおいがする。お花は思わず、もちをぱくり、ぱくりとほおばった。
ああ、とためいきをついたそのときじゃ。
「こら、お花! 売り物に手を出すとは盗人と同じ。いつも盗み食いしておったな!」
まま母はお花にかけ寄り、お花の頭といい背中といい、めちゃくちゃに打ち据えた。



「ちがいます! お地蔵さんにちこうて初めてです。もう二度とせんから、堪忍して」
「ほぅ。ほんなら、お地蔵さんが手を出してそのもちを食べなさったら、許してやってもいいがねぇ」
お花は、お地蔵さんの胸にかじりついた。
「お地蔵さん、お助けくださいませ」
すると、うす笑いをしたお地蔵さんの手がにゅうっとのびて、箱の中のもちをひとつとり、むしゃむしゃとたいらげたんじゃ。
まま母の驚いたのなんのったら。口をあんぐり開けて腰を抜かしたまま手を合わせ、
「お、お許しくだされ。もうまま子いじめはいたしません。おらが悪うございました」
と謝った。以来、まま母は人が変わったようにやさしくなったとさ。

source : www.cocolotus.com/item/

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. Buckwheat noodles (soba 蕎麦) .
Daruma eating buckwheat noodles


soba kui Jizo そば喰地蔵 / 蕎麦喰地蔵尊 Jizo eating Buckwheat noodles
at temple 方広寺 Hoko-Ji, Kyoto - Karasudera 専定寺(烏寺)

The statue of this Jizo is about 1 meter. It dates back to the Muromachi period. It is also called
shishi Jizo 獅子地蔵 "Jizo the Lion".
Jizo holds the ritual stick 錫状, in the left hand the wish-fulfilling jewel 宝珠.
The left foot of the seated statue hangs down to the earth.

In the Edo period, around 1700, a man called 伏見屋左近 Fushimiya Sakon from 三条寺町 Sanjo-Ji ward came here every day to offer chrysanthemum flowers.
Once he had business in Edo and had to cross the river 駿河の大井川 Oigawa in Suruga. But the river was flooding and could not be crossed. Since Sakon had to return really urgent, he jumped head first into the river trying to swim. He struggeled in the floods when suddenly a lion passed by, took Sakon on his back and brought him safely to the other shore. Then the lion disappeared in the sky.
That night, a priest appeared in the dream of Sakon, telling him he was the Jizo of 烏寺Karasudera. To show his gratitude for the daily offerings of flowers he had changed into a lion and saved him.
When Sakon woke up, there was a statue of Jizo, about 9 cm tall, beside his pillow.
When he finally reached Kyoto, we went to the temple Karasudera and showed the statue to the priest. The priest told him it was the small statue inside the main statue (tainaibutsu 胎内仏).
To show his gratitude, Sakon now built a special hall for this Jizo.
(according to the old records 拾遺都名所図会)

This temple is Nr. 43 on a pilgrim tour to 48 Jizo Temples.
洛陽四十八願所第43番札所

(Still trying to figure out the relation to eating buckwheat noodles.)



Senjooji 専定寺 Senjo-Ji
is also called Karasudera. It is located in the West of Hoko-Ji.

. Hookooji, Hōkō-ji 方広寺 Hoko-Ji, Kyoto .
Kyoto Daibutsu no Nanafushigi 京都大仏の七不思議
The seven wonders of the Daibutsu in Kyoto

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another legend from Edo, now Tokyo Nerima  江戸 練馬区

延命蕎麦喰地蔵尊奉安所




そば喰い僧の伝説といえば、「蕎麦喰地蔵尊」も有名だ。毎夜、そばを食べに来る高貴な僧を不思議に思って、そば屋のあるじが跡をつけてみると、地蔵堂の中にすっと消えた。その夜、枕元に地蔵のお告げがあり、毎日のそばの礼と、一家の安全を約束された。

以来、あるじは地蔵様にそばを供えたので、江戸中に悪疫が流行した折りも、一家は難を免れた。この地蔵尊のある寺は、幾度かの移転ののち浅草田島町に移り、現在は練馬区にあると資料にあった。資料に記されていた寺の名は「誓願寺」。

ところが、地図で見たかぎりその番地にはその名の寺がない。あるのは、十一ヶ寺といって○○院というのが一一ある寺だ。ダメで元々のつもりで電車に乗った。西武線豊島園駅。遊園地に向かう子供連れや若いカップルを横目でにらみながら、彼らとは反対方向に進む。

にわかに線香のにおいがしてきた。門の看板を見る。やはり「誓願時」の文字はない。山門を入ると道路を隔てて左に五つ、右に六つの「院」がある。目当ての地蔵様はどこにあるのか、右の院を訪ね、左の院をのぞく。院内のどこにあるとも知れないし、大きさや形も分からないから、くまなく探し回る。「ここにもない…、やはり誓願寺のある所なのか」と諦めかけて、あと二つとなったとき地蔵様の社が目に飛び込んだ。山門から向かって左の一番奥の「九品院」の脇に地蔵様がいた。
門には「延命蕎麦喰地蔵尊奉安所」とある。間違いない。干しそばが供えられている。来た甲斐があった。ありがたい。思わず手を合わせた。

- source : www.nichimen.or.jp -


九品院のソバ食い地蔵
About 1.50 m high stone statue.

Edo 江戸期所在地 / 田島山誓願寺 塔頭西慶院(現九品院)(浅草北寺町)
現所在地    / 誓願寺(府中市紅葉丘) 九品院(練馬区練馬4丁目)

練馬の九品院
江戸時代、浅草広小路にあったそば屋・尾張屋に夜ごとそばを食べにくる僧がいて、主人は手厚くそばを振舞っていた。ある夜、そっと後をつけてみると誓願寺西慶院の地蔵堂に姿を消した。その夜の夢枕に現れてそば振舞の礼と一家を守ることを告げたという。尾張屋はその後も地蔵にそばを供えて、一家は栄えたという。この話がつたわって、地蔵尊にそばを供養するようになって蕎麦喰地蔵尊として有名になったという。明治時代に西慶院は同宗門の九品院と合弁し、関東大震災後に地蔵尊共に練馬の九品院に移っている。



- source : seikouminzoku.sakura.ne.jp -

- source : widetown/otona -

tba


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yokai database - Jizo and Mochi -
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Legends about Soba そば用語辞典 【 そ 】   
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. Join the Jizo Bosatsu Gallery - Facebook .


. Legends about Jizo Bosatsu and Mochi rice cakes - 地蔵と餅 .

. Legends about Roku Jizō 六地蔵 Roku Jizo, Six Jizo Statues .

. Enmei Jizoo 延命地蔵 life-prolonging Jizo .

. kitsune 狐 fox and Jizo Legends . *

. shichiya 質屋 - Jizo at the pawn shop .

. Soomen Jizoo そうめん地蔵 Somen Noodles Jizo .

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- - - - - Aichi 愛知県

okama Jizoo お釜地蔵 Jizo and the cooking pot



Once upon a time
there was evil mother who tried to kill her child by boiling it in a huge pot. But
suddenly, Jizo sama appeared to act as a substitute for her kid.
The evil mother clearned up her act and mind when she saw Jizo standing in the hot water.
Since then it is said that this Okama Jizo protects the children .

- source and more photos : Aoi san on facebook -




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- - - - - Chiba 千葉県

. Ketsubon Kyo 血盆経 Blood Bowl Sutra .




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- - - - - Fukui 福井県

敦賀市 Tsuruga 赤崎区 Akasaki ward

There are special prayer groups for the Deity of the Mountain、Yama no Shinko 山の神講.
When a new home is built, the children all come together and run to the 大日堂 Hall of Dainichi, clad only in a loincloth (and nowadays white pants) and carrying thick ropes. At the Hall their leader puts a rope he had carried around his waist on the roots of the sacred 松の木 pine tree.



Then all the other kids put their シト / つと (shito) tsuto there. Then they all go into the hall and smear a special sacred paste made from rice, water and sake, called shitogi シトキ / しとぎ on their bodies. This act signifies to become a Jizo.
The Deity of the Mountains is seen of a "Monster of the Night" (yoru no mamono 夜の魔物).
This ceremony is supposed to appease him and keep the children safe.

- source : www.city.tsuruga.lg.jp




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- - - - - Fukushima 福島県

福島市 Fukushima

Kazafuki Jizoo son 風吹地蔵尊 Jizo from Kazafuki
The 16th day of the 3rd lunar month is the day of Jizo at the local temple. Already one week before the festival the impatient children from the local grammar school come here to play. During that time they are allowed to do anything they like with the Jizo.
On the "floating festival" day, Toonagashi トーナガシ, the water of the canal is stopped for a while, then the statue of Jizo, all naked, gets a rope around its head and is lowered into the water to let flow. The children have to pull the rope to hold it back.
Then one day someone washed the Jizo on the festival day and brought him to the shrine 神社. But after that his grandmother became ill and had to stay in bed.

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. sweets offerings to Jizo to heal children .




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- - - - - Hiroshima 広島県

呉市 Kure 蒲刈町 Kamagari

. Jizo sama and Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 .




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- - - - - Kanagawa 神奈川県

. mochiage Jizo 持上げ地蔵 lifting the Jizo statue .
at 蓮光寺 the Temple Renko-Ji




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- - - - - Miyagi 宮城県

. amazake Jizoo 甘酒地蔵 Jizo and sweet rice wine .
and the death of Date Munekiyo 伊達河内守宗清 (1600 - 1634)

. awamochi 粟餅を食った地蔵様 Jizo Bosatsu eating Millet Mochi .

. Mizunokami 水の神 and Jizo Bosatsu .




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- - - - - Nagano 長野県

. amagoi Jizo 雨ごい地蔵尊 rain rituals with Jizo .
at the river 千曲川 Chikumagawa

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南佐久郡 Minami-Saku district 小海町 Koumi town

. Jizo no horagaishi 地蔵のほらが石 conch-shell stone of Jizo. .

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佐久市 Saku town

Roku Jizo 六地蔵尊 The Six Jizo
During the Edo period, there was an epidemic in the region. So the local Lord Nezu 祢津 had six Jizo taken to Edo to quell the spread of the disease. The statues were very heavy and difficult to transport over the many passes, especially 碓氷峠 Usui Pass in Gunma.
But on his way back when the disease had gone and he crossed the pass again, the Jizo statues felt really light.




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- - - - - Nara 奈良県

三宅町 Mitake

. oote kure Jizoo おうてくれ地蔵さん Carrying a Jizo piggyback .




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- - - - - Okayama 岡山県

asekaki Jizo sama 汗かき地蔵さま
eboshi o kabutta O-Jizo san 綿帽子をかぶったお地蔵さん
kubikiri Jizo 首切り地蔵

more tba
. Legends from Okayama 岡山の民話と伝説 .




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- - - - - Saitama 埼玉県

. ohaguro Jizoo お歯黒地蔵 Jizo Bosatsu with black teeth .

. sakenomi Jizoo 酒飲み地蔵 Jizo having a drink of Sake - statue .
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岩槻市 Iwatsuki

Once upon a time
a samurai from 浦和市 Urawa got very drunk on sake.
He took his sword and cut off his nose, shouting "If Jizo has a soul 魂, he should now come here and show it to me"!
But after that misfortune happened constantly to his family. When the clan was almost at the end of its wits, they begun to offer rice to Jizo every year on the 24th day of the 7th lunar month.
The 24th day of each month is considered the ennichi 縁日 prayer day for Jizo.




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- - - - - Tochigi 栃木県

After a drinking party a drunk hunter once threw his hunting dog and a Jizo statue into the lake. The Jizo began to swim on the water, grabbed the poor dog and brought him back to the shore.

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. Iwafunesan 岩船山 高勝寺 Iwafune-San Kosho-Ji .
shooshin Jizoo 生身の地蔵 living Jizo Igaboo 伊賀坊 Igabo, Iga-Bo
and Guseiboo Myoogan 弘誓坊 明願 Guseibo Myogan from Mount Daisen, Tottori




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- - - - - Tokyo 東京都

. Asakusa Kannon 浅草観音伝説 Legends from Asakusa Kannon Temple .

. hamaguri 蛤 clam shell and golden Jizo statue .

. Hoosenji 豊仙寺 / 宝仙寺 Temple Hosen-Ji .
- daija no hone 大蛇の骨 bones of a huge serpent
- Jizo no hoosoo 地蔵の疱瘡 Jizo Bosatsu with smallpox

. hoozuki 鬼燈 - 鬼灯 - ほうずき Chinese lantern plant .

. ishi Jizoo odoru 石地蔵踊る dancing stone Jizo .
at Yotsuya 四ツ谷乗運寺横町 Joun-Ji Yokocho, Shinjuku




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みなべ町 Manabe

On the steep road in front of 嘉道地蔵さん Yoshimichi Jizo many people came to fall but nobody was ever injured. Jizo always picked them up and brought them back to the road safely.
Once a drunk old man on his bicycle fell into the river, but even he got away safely and without injuries.



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草取地蔵,オツナ地蔵
入山の地蔵,アメップリ地蔵
手なし地蔵,北向き地蔵
地蔵菩薩,夜泣地蔵
言成地蔵,(夢のお告げ),(祟り)
婆と石地蔵
子育て地蔵 . . and many more

地蔵菩薩 18 / 地蔵尊 46 / 地蔵 595
yokai database 妖怪データベース - 01 / 595
- source : www.nichibun.ac.jp


Sake and Jizo 酒 - reference
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2015/04/08

Taue Jizo

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Taue Jizoo, Ta-ue Jizoo 田植え地蔵 Jizo planting rice

. WKD : taue 田植 planting rice in the paddies .
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from Izumo no Kuni 出雲の国 Tottori

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田植え地蔵【The Ta Ue Jizo】
In the old days,
it was the custom to share labor, and to perform labor as a form of tax. This was not voluntary, but compulsory. The story is this:
Once upon a time, near the Grand Shrine of Izumo Taisha, an old couple lived who worshipped a wooden statue of Jizo. Sadly, the wife died. Thereafter, the old man lived alone and he also became ill.

At that same time, the village chief told everyone to come and help plant rice in his fields. The old man, too sick to go, worried about his punishment, and prayed to his family Jizo for mercy. On the day for planting the rice, the village chief called the name of each householder. When the old man’s name was called, a 17-year-old youth stepped forward.

He was accepted in place of the old man and worked so hard and well that the chief gave him a sake cup as a reward when the work was done. The boy put the cup on his head and went home. The next day, the chief came to tell the old man of the boy’s good work. The old man was quite surprised at this, because he knew nothing about such a boy. He felt that the boy had come because of the Jizo, and he went to him to pray. When he confronted his statue and started to pray, he noticed with amazement that there was a cup on the Jizo’s head, and that its feet were covered with mud!

Then he realized that his little god had done the work himself. All over Japan, there are many stories of the Ta Ue Jizo. The two that I have told you concern our own Izumo no Kuni, and I thought you might be interested in them.
It is such customs and stories that have continued to hold my interest in the Izumo no Kuni of legend.
- source : japanese-culture.info


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Many farmers venerate a Jizo by the roadside on their daily way to the fields.
So sometimes during the busy season of planting and harvesting, the Jizo comes to help them, taking the figure of a young man working very fast and always cheerful.
Once all the work is done, the stone Jizo is back on his wayside podestal, usually with a lot of mud stains on his body and robe.
Now the farmer can say his "Thank You" prayer.



Stories of a Jizo paying back in gratitude for regular daily prayers are also told in the

Jizo Bosatsu Reigenki 地蔵菩薩霊験記

Spiritual Tales of Ti-Tsang Bodhisattva
This Chinese text appeared near the end of China’s Sung dynasty (+ 960-1279 AD) and was compiled by Chang Chin-chi (常謹集). It contained miraculous stories about Jizō that incorporated many earlier Jizō traditions. Included are tales about people who escape from hell thanks to Jizō, tales of people who are reborn in Miroku’s Tusita heaven or other Buddhist heavens, of deceased parents suffering in hell who are delivered from its torments, and stories where Jizō takes the place of certain hell dwellers to save them from danger. Such miracles were made possible by the pious offerings of living relatives who made pictures and statues of Jizō.

SŪTRAS & TEXTS ABOUT JIZŌ
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This is a story told by the priest of the temple 伊馥寺 Ifuku-Ji
253 Izawacho, Matsusaka, Mie.

The photo does not show the rice-planting Jizo.
The Taue-Jizo is in a small hall in the back of the compound. It is made of metal, maybe during the Edo period. The head priest at that time had a visitor from Kawasaki and was handed this statue with the name of Taue Jizo.

At the temple are other statues of Jizo with special names.
清水地蔵 Kiyomizu Jizo is one of them.
- source : minsominwa.tsutaetai.jp


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2015/01/30

Hearn and Jizo

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Lafcadio Hearn and Jizo

. Lafcadio Hearn, Koizumi Yakumo 小泉八雲 (1850-1904) .
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In the Wake of Lafcadio Hearn Part 1 and 2

Text by Lafcadio Hearn. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894)
Photos by Ojisanjake More Glimpses of Unfamilar Japan (2009)

. . . "We cross the broad opening of the bay, journey along another half-mile of ghastly sea-precipice, and finally make for a lofty promontory of naked Plutonic rock. We pass by its menacing foot, slip along its side, and lo! at an angle opens the arched mouth of a wonderful cavern, broad, lofty, and full of light, with no floor but the sea. Beneath us, as we slip into it, I can see rocks fully twenty feet down. The water is clear as air."




. . . "This is the legendary Fountain of Jizo,
the fountain of milk at which the souls of dead children drink. Sometimes it flows more swiftly, sometimes more slowly; but it never ceases by night or day. And mothers suffering from want of milk come hither to pray that milk may be given unto them; and their prayer is heard. And mothers having more milk than their infants need come hither also, and pray to Jizo that so much as they can give may be taken for the dead children; and their prayer is heard, and their milk diminishes." . . .

. . . "Far within the dusk I see the face of a Jizo, smiling in palestone, and before him, and all about him, a weird congregation of grey shapes without shape--a host of fantasticalities that strangely suggest the wreck of a cemetery. From the sea the ribbed floor of the cavern slopes high through deepening shadows hack to the black mouth of a farther grotto; and all that slope is covered with hundreds and thousands of forms like shattered haka. But as the eyes grow accustomed to the gloaming it becomes manifest that these were never haka; they are only little towers of stone and pebbles deftly piled up by long and patient labour."



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"Had we come earlier, the boatwoman says, we should have seen many more. For 'tis at night, when the soil of the cavern is moist with dews and drippings from the roof, that They leave Their footprints upon it; but when the heat of the day comes, and the sand and the rocks dry up, the prints of the little feet vanish away."

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Hearn also wrote:

"Farther on, I find other figures of Jizo, single reliefs, sculptured upon tombs. But one of these is a work of art so charming that I feel a pain at being obliged to pass it by. More sweet, assuredly, than any imaged Christ, this dream in white stone of the playfellow of dead children, like a beautiful young boy, with gracious eyelids half closed, and face made heavenly by such a smile as only Buddhist art could have imagined, the smile of infinite lovingness and supremest gentleness. Indeed, so charming the ideal of Jizo is that in the speech of the people a beautiful face is always likened to his-'Jizo-kao,' as the face of Jizo."

"As I pen these lines, there returns to me the vision of a Kyoto night. While passing through some wonderfully thronged and illuminated street, of which I cannot remember the name, I had turned aside to look at a statue of Jizo, before the entrance of a very small temple. The figure was that of a kozo, an acolyte-a beautiful boy; and its smile was a bit of divine realism. As I stood gazing, a young lad, perhaps ten years old, ran up beside me, joined his little hands before the image, bowed his head and prayed for a moment in silence. He had but just left some comrades, and the joy and glow of play were still upon his face; and his unconscious smile was so strangely like the smile of the child of stone that the boy seemed the twin brother of the god. And then I thought: 'The smile of bronze or stone is not a copy only; but that which the Buddhist sculptor symbolises thereby must be the explanation of the smile of the race."


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Shogun Jizo

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Shoogun Jizoo, Shōgun Jizō 将軍地蔵 Shogun Jizo, General Jizo
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蓮華三昧経に勝軍地蔵

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Victorious Jizō, Battle-Field Protector,
often shown clad in armor. A form of Jizō widely venerated by warriors.
Writes scholar Yoshiko Kurata Dykstra:
“The idea that Jizō would vicariously receive their injuries and wounds made Jizō immensely attractive among warriors. A story in the Japanese Taiheiki 太平記 (circa 1371) describes how a soldier took refuge in the Jizō Hall of Mibu after fleeing from a battle in the capital. A priest who was the incarnation of the Jizō in the hall appeared and was captured by the enemy in place of the soldier. People later discovered the Jizō statue in the hall was marked as though it had been tightly bound.” (See Shibarare ‘String-Bound’ Jizō for similar stories).
Dykstra also writes: “Shōgun Ashikaga Takauji 足利 尊氏 (1305-58), a fervent Jizō devotee, drew a picture of Jizō and worshipped it daily. The deity Shōgun Jizō (Victorious Jizō) of Atago 愛宕 and Shirakawa 白川 was very popular among warriors, who venerated Jizō as protector in battle.”

There are numerous stories about Jizō as a battlefield protector.
Jōkōmyōji Temple 浄光明寺 in Kamakura houses a statue of Jizō called the Yahiroi Jizō 矢拾い地蔵, literally Arrow-Gathering Jizō. According to legend, Yahiroi Jizō appeared as a child-monk on the battlefield to save Ashikaga Tadayoshi 足利直義 (1306-52), the younger brother of Ashikaga Takauji, by gathering arrows after Tadayoshi had run out of weapons. Jōkōmyōji Temple is #16 and #17 on the Kamakura Pilgrimage to 24 Jizō Sites.

Within the precints of Tenonji Temple 天恩寺 in Okazaki City (Aichi Prefecture) is a large cedar tree named Ieyasu-ko Mikaeri-no-Sugi (lit. = Cedar Tree Ieyasu Looked Back At). According to legend, Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 (1542-1616) visited this temple to pray for victory in his campaign to unify Japan. While praying, someone called out his name. As he turned around to address the caller, he saw an assassin hiding behind a huge cedar tree with arrow poised to shoot. Ieyasu narrowly escaped, and as he left the temple for the battlefield, he looked back repeatedly at the tree to show his gratitude, for the voice he had heard was that of Enmei Jizō 延命地蔵 (Life Prolonging Jizō). Enmei Jizō is also one of Six Jizō who protect all beings in the six realms of desire and rebirth. See Six Jizō for details. (source: nippon-kichi)

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Bodhisattva as Warrior God - The Curious Case of Shōgun Jizō
Patricia Yamada - PDF file, 27 pages
Jizo as war god 軍神 gunshin
Jizo as personal protective deity 念持仏 nenji butsu
venerated by “barbarian-subduing generalissimo” (seii-tai shogun 征夷大将軍) Sakanoue Tamuramaro 坂上田村麻呂 (758-811)
But Jizo is "made in Japan" and not found in India or China.
The earliest known written reference to a Shōgun Jizō is in a postscript to the
Tōnomine ryakki 多武峰略記 (Brief Accounts of Tōno Peak), dated 1197.
Shōteki 勝敵 Bishamonten.

It is not clear when Shōgun Jizō appeared on the Kyoto side of Mt. Atago as the “true ground ” (honji butsu 本地仏) of Atago Daigongen 愛宕大権現, the inclusive
title for the enshrined fire and thunder deities. I

In the Kamakura period Shōgun Jizō veneration was practiced mainly by esoteric recluses and by retired emperors seeking to conquer their enemies.

Uriuzan 瓜生山
The tiny stone Uriuzan 瓜生山 Shōgun Jizō, in a small, former Buddhist hall on Maruyama off the road to Mt. Hiei and the Enryaku-ji, is tied to clashes between the Ashikaga clan and its presumed allies. . . . snip . . . people called the area Shōgun Jizō yama or Shōgun yama.

Shōgun Jizō gunki 勝軍地蔵軍記

When Mount Atago became a shugendō mountain sacred to Shōgun Jizō is far from clear.
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Shudō (1979) and Bouchy (1987) speculate that Kyoto Atago hijiri were actively spreading Atago Shōgun Jizō as the true ground of other indigenous kami in areas throughout the country as early as the late Sengoku years, perhaps even earlier in Yamato (Nara), Tamba and other areas near Kyoto.

A Muromachi period stone statue called the Yoroi Jizō 鎧地蔵 (armored Jizō),
kept in a small hall in Kidera-chō 紀寺町 , Nara City, shows Shōgun Jizō flanked
by Bishamonten and Fudō. . . . once was enshrined at the now defunct Haku’un-in
白雲院 and called Yoroi Jizō Atago Daigongen 鎧地蔵愛宕大権現.
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In 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu “invited” the Kyoto Atago deity to Edo to protect his new capital.
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Kyoto Atagosan silk mandala,
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Shingon temple of Sennnyuuji 泉涌寺 Sennyu-Ji, Kyoto
都府京都市 東山区泉涌寺山内町27

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Jizo and the inoshishi 猪 wild boar  

Flammarion Iconographic Guide:
“In certain cases, Jizō may also assume a syncretic aspect, and be represented as a warrior when assimilated with Atago Gongen 愛宕権現, a Kami considered to be a temporary incarnation of Jizō.
This kami (Shintō deity), protector from flame and fire, mainly venerated on Mount Atago in Kyoto Prefecture, has also been identified as being Kaguzuchi-no-Kami or even Susanoo-no-Mikoto 須佐之男命 (storm god and brother of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu 太陽神アマテラス) and sometimes even as Izanagi 伊邪那岐命 (Japanese creator god). He is represented with the features of a Chinese warrior on horseback, carrying a pigrim’s staff and a cintamani (Jp. = hōjunotama 宝珠の玉 or wish-granting jewel). Popular imagery sometimes also symbolizes him by statuettes of a horse carrying a cintamani on its back.
The support animal or messenger of this Atago Gongen is the wild boar, the symbol of courage, strength, and perseverance.
Many legends relate that warriors in difficulty have been rescued by wild boars or Atago Jizō 愛宕地蔵, which charged at their enemies, putting them to flight.”
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The white wild boar 白猪 (shirai, shira-i) is a messenger of the deity of Atago Jinja 愛宕神社.
It is celebrated on the forth day of the second month.




Mount Atago Yama 愛宕山 / 阿多古 in Kyoto and
. Atago Gongen 愛宕権現 and Atago Jinja 愛宕神社 .





Shogun Jizo riding a white wild boar / Anryu-In 安立院 Tokyo
7 Chome-10-4 Yanaka, Taito, Tokyo 安立院(東京都台東区谷中7-10)


- Look at more Atago Jizo on a wild boar here, especially with relation to Tokugawa Ieyasu and Nikko :



日光の愛宕社 勝(将)軍地蔵と猪
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Chookyuuji 長久寺 Chokyu-Ji
坂戸市浅羽  埼玉 - 1486 Asaba, Sakado, Saitama

This statue is dating back to 1792.


戦勝ではなく害獣退治というわけ

This Jizo is not here to win a battle as general,
but to help the farmers with the fight against the wild boars of the time.
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. inoshishi 猪 wild boar .
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inoshishi yoke イノシシ除け warding off wild boars


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Jizo and Kobo Daishi in front of large nets to ward off the wild boars.
Shikoku Henro Nr. 23 -  第23番札所 薬王寺 Yakuo-Ji



猪の被害 damage by wild boars - quite a problem in rural Japan these days.
Even in my village in Okayama the wild boars take over, since the hunters are mostly too old to continue their jobs and there is nobody to do anything. Just electric fences around the rice paddies, but the wild boars jump over it and destroy the crops anyway.


Wild boars digging along the road to my home in Okayama.
During the snow months, they are at their best (or worst) . . .






. Wild boars in Okayama .




猪や米を食べるな食べるなよ
inoshishi ya kome o taberu na、taberu na yo

twiglight zone -
wild boars harvesting
the fallen rice


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General Jizo (Shoogun Jizoo)

Seit der Kamakura-Zeit bekannt. Seit der Muromachi-Zeit besonders von den Samurai als Kriegsgott verehrt, weil er Sieg in der Schlacht gewährt. Aus diesem Glauben entwickelte sich später der stellvertretende Jizoo.
Zerstört mit seinen schrecklichen Waffen das Unwissen der Menschen.
Mit chinesischer Rüstung auf einem Pferd sitzend oder neben einem Pferd stehend, einen Pilgerstab oder eine Gebetsfahne (ban) in der Hand.


勝軍騎馬尊像 / 勝勝軍牙尊像 / 勝軍騎馬神像
shoogun kiba sonzoo

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2015/01/28

Bake Jizo Monster

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Bakejizo, Bake-Jizo 化け地蔵 / 化地蔵 Jizo as a yokai monster
obake Jizoo お化け地蔵 O-bake Jizo


. yookai 妖怪 Yokai Japanese Ghosts and Ghost Stories .
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by Mizuki Shigeru


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地蔵菩薩は釈迦の入滅から弥勒仏の下生までの無仏時代に衆生済度を受け持つ菩薩として奈良時代あたりから信仰され、末法思想のさかんだった平安中期以降に地蔵信仰はとくに広まった。
路傍や墓地の入り口などに立つ、頭を丸め、身に衲衣、袈裟をまとう僧形の石地蔵は「お地蔵さん」と呼ばれ、最も馴染みのある仏様といえる。しかし、あまりに馴染みのあるせいか、仏様であるにもかかわらず、古くなった道具が化ける付喪神のごとく化けるという話が聞かれることがある。
遠州白須賀(静岡県浜名郡湖西町白須賀)の潮見坂にある石地蔵は、夜な夜な化けて出るとの噂があった。そんなある年、この村を訪れた若い浪人が化地蔵のことを耳にして、その噂を確かめに潮見坂に赴く。すると六体ある石地蔵のうち一体がたちまち大きな一つ目入道となった。そして赤い舌をぺろりと出し、大声で笑った。浪人がすぐさま斬りつけると、化け物は悲鳴をあげて消え去った。翌朝になって確かめると、石地蔵の一体が肩から斜めにに斬りおろされて倒れていたという。

Stone Jizo in Shogin-Ji Taito Tokyo
また、東京都台東区橋場の松吟寺内にある「お化け地蔵」は背丈が3m近くもある、他に例を見ない巨大な石地蔵である。その昔、白井権八なる武士がこの地蔵の陰に隠れて辻斬りをやり、地蔵に向かって「知らんふり」しろと言ったところ、「お前こそ人に言うでないぞ」と答えたという。.
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Obake (Bogy) Jizo



Once upon a time, this area was within the premises of Sosenji Temple. The bogy Jizo is located at a corner of the Sosenji Temple and initially it was called "baby-raising Jizo." But the Jizo, an image in stone, had a large hat and a large height of more than 3 m. So, some people said that the hat moved in direction, and then they used to call it obake (bogy) Jizo.
According to the foundation stone of the Jizo, it is recorded that the Jizo was built in 1721 and broken into two pieces after the Great Kanto Earthquake but it was repaired with the head portion replaced.

松吟寺 Shogin-ji Temple, 2 chome 5-3, Hashiba Tokyo
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Japanese Ghost story, the impossible-to-count Bake Jizo

Rows of dozens of stone statues representing Jizo Bodhisattva
can be found frequently in Japan, but during my travels across Japan I found a few of them really special. One example is the row of statues from the Kanmangafuchi Abyss in Nikko, a wonderfully beautiful place: the Jizo are lining the trail through the forest, along the raging river … The foliage was thick and the path was a bit mysterious, especially since it was in the evening and the light was starting to fade.

But the feeling was caused by their story:



It is said that these Jizo were donated by the followers of Bishop Tenkai and that originally there were 100 statues. After a flood in 1902, some of them were destroyed or taken by the water current.
But until today, nobody knows for sure how many Jizo are in this valley… because the legend says that each time they were counted - the result was different.
That’s why they are called Bake Jizo, meaning “Ghost Jizo".

The reasonable explanation: since many statues were destroyed, some of them are completely missing, others are only a pedestal or a pile of broken rocks, but can still be counted . . .
- source : muza-chan.net

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. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .

................................................................................. Fukushima 福島県

In the 田村郡 Tamura district, 小野町 Ono
主に正月に、家の中で1人の子が目を瞑って中央に座り、周りで5、6人が唱え言を唱え囃し立てる。やがて中央の子が体を揺らし始め、地蔵さんが乗り憑いたとわかる。色々な質問に答えてくれ、気持ちのよい子、欲得のない子には地蔵さんが憑きやすかった。

................................................................................. Kanagawa 神奈川県
津久井郡 Tsukui district 城山町 Shiroyamamachi

In front of the Bakejizo of 尻無沢 Shirinashizawa (now 都井沢 Toizawa) a fox shapeshifted into a beautiful woman, carrying fallen leaves in a basket on her head. A man who passed along saw her true features and tried to kill the woman/fox. Soon after that he became very ill. He had to say 百万遍念仏 the Nenbutsu Prayer for 10000 times to get well again.

. 地蔵菩薩と狐と伝説 Legends about Jizo Bosatsu and kitsune Foxes .


................................................................................. Nagasaki 長崎県

In 平戸市 Hirado - ヤコ憑き yakotsuki
ある爺さんが煮干製造所で鰯干しの竿をお地蔵様のガン首に結びつけたら、地蔵さんがひっくり返った。爺さんは地蔵さんをカワの中に投げ込んだので、ヤコ憑きのようになって口走ったという。


................................................................................. Shiga 滋賀県
蒲生町 Gamo town

. A fox shape-shifted into 地蔵 Jizo Bosatsu .

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Tajimi Jizo

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Tajimi Jizo 多治見地蔵
Tajimi town, Gifu 岐阜県多治見市

Chichi Jizo 乳地蔵
Kubikiri Jizo 首切り地蔵
Watanabe Jizo 渡辺地蔵
Yamashita Jizo 山下地蔵

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Chichi Jizo 乳地蔵 Nipple Jizo
He is a specialist in curing the nipple problems of nursing mothers.



Other Nipple Jizo of Japan
- - - - - Taga town in Shiga 多賀町滋賀県
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Kubikiri Jizo 首切り地蔵


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Statue near 普賢寺 Fugen-Ji in Ohara 大原町




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Watanabe Jizo 渡辺地蔵
岐阜県多治見市山下町



At 245 cm in height, the "Watanabe Jizo" is Tajimi's largest.
Adorned in purple attire, it was erected at what used to be known as the village of Watanabe-cho (from the Edo period until 1944) and is now 4 chome, Hokoji), in the town of Yamashita-cho.
One upon a time, the store-keeper of a rice shop called Komegin went to Tsumagi to get rice stalks. He saw that a statue of Jizo-sama was as a bridge across a small river, which seemed a shame and is probably why they dedicated the new statue in the Watanabe region.

- source : Hayato Tokugawa - facebook

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Yamashita Jizo 山下地蔵 

On the children's park of Yamashita-cho in Tajimi (Gifu Prefecture) stands a statue of "Yamashita Jizo," a deity who often grants wishes.



Long ago, people whose wish had been granted gave thanks by making a new Jizo. That is why 30 Jizo statues are lined up side by side. At first, they were in Doba-bora Cave (under Yosei Elementary School) but because few people visited there, they were moved to the base of a nearby chestnut tree, where they were also collectively called the "Chestnut Tree Jizo."



After that, a road was opened there, so the Jizo were again relocated, this time to its present site. Every August 24, the place becomes crowded with the Jizo Bon (the Jizo Festival of the Dead).
When wishes are granted these days, the Jizo may be lightly embraced.
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