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2015/06/01

jigoku-e paintings of hell

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jigokue, jigoku-e 地獄絵 paintings of hell


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. Juu Oo 十王, Juo, Ju-O - 10 Ten Kings of Hell .
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. Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 Kawanabe Kyosai Hell Paintings .

. Jigokudani 地獄谷 ”Hell Valley" - Jigoku no Tani 地獄の谷 .
At Hell Valley on Mount Tate in Etchû Province,
Nikushi Dôjin Demonstrates a Battle of Frogs and Teaches Magic to the Two Comrades Yoshikado and Iga Ju
Etchû Tateyama no Jigokudani ni Nikushi Dôjin kawazu kassen no ki o arawashi Yoshikado Iga Ju no ryôyû
「越中立山の地獄谷に肉芝道人蛙合戦の奇をあらはし良門伊賀寿の両雄に妖術を授く」
by Yoshitora 芳虎画


. Ninnaji 仁和寺 Ninna-Ji, Kyoto - Hell paintings .


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Masuda Family Hell Scroll
Gaki Zoshi (Stories of Hungry Ghosts) Tokyo National eMuseum
Hell Scroll (Tokyo National eMuseum)
Hungry Ghosts Scroll (Tokyo National eMuseum)
Scroll of the Hungry Ghosts (Kyoto National Museum)
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Depicting the horrors of hell through art
is a tradition in Buddhism that goes back at least 1,000 years in Japan. By depicting the suffering in store for sinners, the artworks were supposed to scare people onto the straight and narrow.
But if that’s what this late 19th century scroll was for, it might have had the opposite effect. We’ve never seen such a cute hellscape!



This particular scroll is part of Waseda University’s collection and is a copy by an artist called Kanshou of an unknown earlier hell scroll. His style is simple and kind of spindly, making the humans and devils look cartoonish. The combination that doodling style and the sometimes nonsensical situations makes for a very cute package, in our opinion.
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Having beans thrown at you, being glared at while sitting in a flower - - what horror!
So, Hell.
It’s supposed to be a scary, not-so-cool place, right? All that fire and torture and eternal suffering are supposed to be the ultimate punishment for not acting like a good person during your life. Makes sense that it would be depicted as a pretty miserable place in artwork then, right?

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- source : en.rocketnews24.com - 2016 -
Original Source: Waseda University Library via CuRAZY

kanshoo jigoku emaki 観象(かんしょう)「地獄絵巻」Kansho
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Jigoku Soshi 地獄草子 Hell Scroll


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地獄草紙 東博本 雨炎火石

地獄を描いた12世紀の絵巻物。地獄草紙と呼ばれる絵巻物は、東京国立博物館本(国宝)、奈良国立博物館本(国宝)、旧益田家本甲巻、旧益田家本乙巻の4巻があった。このうち旧益田家本乙巻は、現在では、地獄を描いたものではないとされ、「辟邪絵」(へきじゃえ)と呼ばれるようになっている。
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This scroll consists of seven painted scenes, six of which are accompanied by text. The scenes were based on descriptions of the sixteen lesser hells given in Kisekyô (literally, "Sutra of the World Arising"), which was translated into Chinese by Jnanagupta (d. 600). According to the sutra, around the eight greater hells lie sixteen lesser hells - the hells of "The Black Sand Cloud," "Excrement," "The Five Prongs," "Starvation," "Searing Thirst," "Pus and Blood," "The Single Bronze Cauldron," "Many Bronze Cauldrons," "The Iron Mortar," "Measures," "The Flaming Cock," "The River of Ashes," "The Grinder," "Sword Leaves," "Foxes and Wolves," and "Freezing Ice."
Today, these scenes are ordered such that the second, tenth, ninth, eleventh, first, sixth, and fifteenth hells appear in succession. A scroll fragment of the "Hell of the Single Bronze Cauldron" in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is thought to have originally been part of the Nara set.
Each section of the text begins with the phrase, "There is yet another hell,"
to which is added a description based on Kisekyô, in which the cause for the sinners' fall into a particular hell is recorded. According to one view, however, the seventh scene, rather than depicting the "Hell of Foxes and Wolves" (J. Korô jigoku) described in Kisekyô, represents the "Hell of Wolves and Foxes" (J. Rô yakan nairi) that appears in Dairôtankyô ("Great Sutra of the World Arising").
The paintings are executed with supple lines embellished with a variety of dark, rich colors. They have a somewhat oppressive air and yet at the same time suggest a sense of transcendental peacefulness. The style of the "Hell of the Iron Mortar" recalls the frontispiece of the Chûson-ji Temple sutras, while that of the "Hell of the Flaming Cock" shows the influence of Chinese paintings of the Song dynasty (960-1279). This handscroll has the most delicate expression of all the extant "Illustrated Scrolls of the Six Paths of Rebirth" (J. rokudô emaki), a category that includes other Hell Scrolls, the Scrolls of the Hells for Buddhist Novices (J. Shamon jigoku zôshi), the Hungry Ghosts Scroll (J. Gaki zôshi), Extermination of Evil (J. Hekijae), and the Scroll of Diseases and Deformities (J. Yamai no sôshi).
It is highly probable that these Illustrated Scrolls of the Six Paths of Rebirth correspond to the "Paintings of the Six Paths" (J. rokudô-e) mentioned in textual sources, which were commissioned by Emperor Goshirakawa (1127-92, r. 1155-58) and stored originally in Rengeô-in Temple (Sanjûsangendô).
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Shamon jigoku zôshi 沙門地獄草紙 Scrolls of the Hells for Buddhist Novices
Shamon Jigoku - a hell for monks


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Monk-in-Hell Scroll (Hell of boiling excrement)
This is the fifth volume of Jigoku Zoshi (picture scroll depicting hell) with seven volumes in total, which had been handed down to the Masudas. The Jigoku Zoshi owned by the former Masudas had long been handed down as a set of Jigoku Zoshi and Hekija-e (a painting that depicts a scene of evil being punished and exterminated) (National treasure; owned by the Nara National Museum).
It has been known that the set depicts the Shamon Jigoku (a hell for monks), which is explained in the Batorasetsu Sutra contained in the Butsumyo Sutra comprising 16 volumes and this drawing corresponds to the Fusshi Jigoku in the Shamon Jigoku. The Jigokuhen Gobyobu, a folding screen on which hell was drawn and which was used at the Butsumyo-e Service that had been practiced at Court since the early Heian period, depicts the Shamon Jigoku. Since it is possible that the Hekija Deity (deity that expels evil) was also drawn on this folding screen, some believe that the Jigoku Zoshi of the former Masudas, including this one and Hekija-e originally constituted one picture scroll that was created based on the design of the Jigoku Gobyobu.

While this drawing displays the traditional techniques of Yamato-e in the Heian period as exemplified by the handwriting in the style of Jakuren school in the legend and the careful sketches and shading in character drawing, it also shows characteristics of a transitional period to the Kamakura period, such as the line drawing of Mezurasetsu (servants in hell) represented in the extremely fat or thin bodies. It can be said, therefore, that this was created during the period from the end of the Heian period to the early Kamakura period.
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gaki zôshi, gaki zooshi 餓鬼草子 Gaki Zoshi - Hungry Ghosts Scroll
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hekijae, hekija-e 辟邪絵 Hekija-E - Extermination of Evil, Exorcists Scroll
Hekija 辟邪 deity that expels evil
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yamai no sôshi, yamai no sooshi 病草紙 Yamai no Soshi - Scroll of Diseases and Deformities
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. rokudoo 六道 Rokudo - Six realms of existence .
and gaki 餓鬼 the hungry demons

rokudô emaki, rokudoo emaki 六道絵巻 Rokudo Emaki - Illustrated Scrolls of the Six Paths of Rebirth
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rokudoo e 六道絵 Rokudo-E - Paintings of the Six Paths


. Tengu no dairi emaki 天狗の内裏絵巻 The Tengu Palace .
Minamoto no Yoshitsune visiting Hell with a Tengu guide

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. information of facebook .
naraku ならく / 奈落 hell, hades - sanskrit : naraka, niraya - Naraka

. Juu Oo 十王, Juo, Ju-O - 10 Ten Kings of Hell - Ten Yama Kings .


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Korean painting of hell



Choson period or later. Korea. First quarter of the 20th century.

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Hell paintings on folding screens 地獄絵 襖絵 fusuma-e



(北上市永明寺蔵)Iwate Kitakami
from an exhibition at 北上市和賀町岩崎の鬼の館

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Hell paintings on hanging scrolls  地獄絵 掛け軸 kakejiku





綾部安国寺の地獄絵 Hell paintings from Ankoku-Ji in Ayabe, Kyoto


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. 8 scrolls from a temple in Nagano .


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jigoku ezu 地獄絵図 Hell Paintings


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冷え性の母に極彩地獄絵図
hieshoo no haha ni gokusai jigoku ezu

for my mother
who is always feeling so cold -
this colorful painting of hell


Hasegawa Sogyo (Hasegawa Soogyo) 長谷川双魚 (1897 - 1987)

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地獄絵図たんねんに見る西日来て
吉野義子

地獄絵図右往左往の紙魚の跡
島青櫻

地獄絵図拝して自戒常楽会
名越夜潮

地獄絵図方丈に吊り虫干しす
澤野粂子

地獄絵図赤く輝き冬に入る
細木蓉子

暑さなど何ぞ原爆地獄絵図
古橋成光

立ねぷたいちばん下は地獄絵図
松宮梗子

ソフトクリーム舐めて見てゐる地獄絵図
奥村せいち

十夜果て箱に収むる地獄絵図
北野民夫

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manga hell paintings


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図説 地獄絵の世界 The illustrated world of Hell Paintings
小栗栖 健治





地獄絵を旅する: 残酷・餓鬼・病・死体 Travelling in the world of Hell Paintings
加須屋誠




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- English reference -

. O-Mamori お守り Amulets and Talismans .



. 矢田寺 Temple Yatadera - Yata Jizo Son 矢田地蔵尊 .
Nara Prefecture, Yamato-Koriyama, Yatacho, 3549
... this temple was founded in 679 after Emperor Tenmu fled here during a civil war and prayed for victory.
It is famous for the Jizo statues.

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地獄絵の鬼が溢るる春浅し
jigoku-e no oni ga afururu haru asashi

on the hell scroll
there are so many demons -
spring just beginning

Tr. Gabi Greve

榎本愛子 Enomoto Aiko

. WKD : "thin spring" 春浅し (はるあさし) haru asashi .



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地獄絵に空白はなし安居寺
jigoku e ni kuuhaku wa nashi Ango-Ji (Yassui-Ji)

on the hell painting
not a bit is unpainted -
temple Ango-Ji


松田都青 Matsuda san




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source : henro.gozaru.jp
「安居寺」と書いて「あんこじ」と読むらしい


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安居寺 Ango-Ji /
富山県南砺市安居4941 / 4941 Yasui Nanto-shi, Toyama
In the 2nd year of the Yoro era (718 C.E.), Angoji temple was founded by Shingon Buddhist Patriarch Zenmui Sanzo, who was visiting from India. I
n the Nara period, it served as Emperor Shomu's temple, as well as that of the Kaga Domain in the Edo period, and is thus the home of many treasured items. Notable among these is the standing statue Mikae Amidanyorai, "The Staring Amida Tathagata". The most prized possession of the temple is a wooden statue of Kanon Bodhisattva from the early Heian period (designated important cultural asset), which can be seen at its unveiling once every year on October 18th.
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地獄絵の火にあたたまる十二月
鈴木鷹夫

地獄絵の鬼に止れり春の蝿
栗田やすし

地獄図絵のなかへわめきて蝉の昼 河野南畦
地獄図絵昼つかさどる黒揚羽 河野多希女
地獄図絵朱責めの暑さつづきをり 河野多希女
地獄図絵黒き揚羽が寺を抜け 河野南畦 湖の森
地獄絵ざつと見て ま 何とかなりそう 沙羅冬笛
地獄絵に諭さるる子や地蔵盆 芦澤元子
地獄絵に野萩の風のひとしきり 南光 翠峰
地獄絵に青き山あり蕨餅 野池玉代
地獄絵に風の牡丹を加ふべし 大木あまり

地獄絵のあと涅槃図にひざまづく 石野 冬青
地獄絵のうらの金箔雁のこゑ 三森鉄治
地獄絵の女は白し秋の風 武藤紀子
地獄絵の底で暴れる冬の蝿 井上純郎
地獄絵の朱が目に残り迎鐘 田中驕星
地獄絵の朱色や爪で剥がしたき 池田澄子
地獄絵の水蒼かりし桜かな 有光令子
地獄絵の破れ繕ふ土用干 高田たみ子
地獄絵の襖開けたる花見かな 福島せいぎ
地獄絵の赤を春着の裾に見し 大山安太郎
地獄絵の赤深谷の茸にも 矢島渚男 船のやうに
地獄絵の飯の炎となるお風入れ 高澤良一
地獄絵の飯は火を噴き盆の寺 長谷川櫂

地獄絵を媼の拝む彼岸寺 渡辺威人
地獄絵を見て日盛りを戻るなり 佐藤信子
地獄絵を高く掛けゐし大昼寝 石寒太 翔
地獄絵を黒羽に吊る冬田かな 古舘曹人

寒詣一灯地獄絵を照らす 石倉啓補
廻廊に地獄絵並ぶ花祭 佐藤石花
春陰やむかしこの世の地獄図絵 稲垣きく
炎天を来て地獄絵に見入るなり 佐藤美恵子
白山茶花地獄絵のごと蜂群るゝ 高木雨路
秋風に赤き地獄絵かかりけり 八木林之介
鐘楼のなかの地獄絵うそ寒し 福田甲子雄
雪とける寺地獄絵に朝日射す 中山純子 沙羅
鶏頭花地獄絵の闇たつぷりと 石田阿畏子

こはごはと地獄絵のぞく宵閻魔 鈴木胡月
こほろぎや地獄絵花鳥なかりけり 斉藤夏風
冷まじや地獄絵仕置の白女體 高澤良一 素抱
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地獄画の垣にかかりて鳴雲雀
jigoku e no kaki ni kakarite naku hibari

in the hell painting
perched on a fence...
a lark sings


- Tr. David Lanoue

. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 .
17 haiku about hell by Issa


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かわいい仏像 たのしい地獄絵 - Gentle Buddha Statues - Enjoyable Hell Paintings
須藤 弘敏 (著), 矢島 新 (著) - amazon com

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Nihon Ryōiki - Record of Miraculous Events in Japan
Haruo Shirane, Burton Watson



The Nihon ryoiki, a collection of setsuwa, or "anecdotal" tales, compiled by a monk in late-eighth- or early-ninth-century Japan, records the spread of Buddhist ideas in Japan and the ways in which Buddhism's principles were adapted to the conditions of Japanese society. Beginning in the time before Buddhism was introduced to Japan, the text captures the effects of the nation's initial contact with Buddhism--brought by emissaries from the king of the Korean state of Paekche--and the subsequent adoption and dissemination of these new teachings in Japanese towns and cities.

The Nihon ryoiki provides a crucial window into the ways in which Japanese Buddhists began to make sense of the teachings and texts of their religion, incorporate religious observances and materials from Korea and China, and articulate a popularized form of Buddhist practice and belief that could extend beyond monastic centers. The setsuwa genre would become one of the major textual projects of classical and medieval Buddhism, with nearly two dozen collections appearing over the next five centuries. The Nihon ryoiki serves as a vital reference for these later works, with the tales it contains finding their way into folkloric traditions and becoming a major source for Japanese authors well into the modern period.
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NHK 特別展「地獄絵ワンダーランド」NHK Exhibition Jigoku-E Wonderland
August 2017

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. Hell in Japanese Art .
by Ryouji Kajitani (Author), Naoki Nishida (Author), Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (Artist), Kyosai Kawanabe (Artist), Kazuya Takaoka (Designer)



... artists such as Kazunobu Kano, Nichosai, Yoshitoshi Tsukioka and Kyosai Kawanabe.

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. jigoku no oni 地獄の鬼 demons of the Buddhist hell .
and their legends

. Japan - Shrines and Temples - ABC .


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2014/04/20

yomi yellow springs

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yomi 黄泉 "the yellow springs"
die Gelben Quellen, unterirdisches Schattenreich, Jenseitswelt

meido めいど【冥土 / 冥途】 the Netherworld, nether world, underworld

The Japanese word "yomigaeru" よみがえる【蘇る / 甦る】has the meaning of
"coming back from a visit to the Yellow Springs, yomi kara kaeru 黄泉(よみ)から帰る.

Diyu 地狱 (Jap. jigoku) (Sanskrit: नरक "Naraka")
is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology.
. Alternate names for the Chinese hell .


The deity Izanagi イザナギ visiting the land of YOMI and coming back
. Purification Ritual of Izanagi (misogi 禊 ) .


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The Chinese Underworld
In ancient Chinese religion the Underworld was called the Yellow Springs (Huángquán 黄泉)
possibly a reference to the ubiquitous Yellow River. The Yellow Springs were not a ‘hell’ where one suffers retribution but rather a place where the souls of the departed were supposed to reside, the destination of the whitesoul (pò 魄). Life could be made easier for the pò if it was provided with the necessary amenities: food, clothing, money, precious objects, and servants. These would be placed in the tomb by the surviving relatives. The servants (human and animal) were at first provided by immolating the actual servants of the deceased in the tomb, but with time (during the first half of the first millennium BC) this practice ended and inanimate representations of the attendants were placed in the tomb instead.

Anything more precise as to the exact ancient conception of the underworld is lost, as the surviving texts from Chinese Antiquity have been written by Confucianists who have generally ridiculed the ancient myths.

Under the Hàn, the God of the Eastern Mountain (Mount Tài: Tàishān 泰山), the abode of the xiān 仙, starts being held responsible for the register of the living and the dead; as a result, the idea that the dead reside under Mt Tài starts spreading. Concurrently with Mt Tài in Shāndōng (山東), a temple in Fēngdū 酆都 in Sìchuān (四川) also starts being considered as the entrance to the underground realm of the dead.

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- source : celestialempire.blogspot.jp


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The Japanese word "yomigaeru" よみがえる【蘇る / 甦る】has the meaning of "coming back from a visit to the Yellow Springs, yomi kara kaeru 黄泉(よみ)から帰る.


© More in the WIKIPEDIA !

Fudaraku Tokai 補陀落渡海
Kumano was famous for sending boats to the Fudaraku Paradise of Kannon, and people were not supposed to come back from this "yomi" trip.
... portrays Kumano on the one hand as land of death (yomi), and on the other hand
... individual belief; it was either a trip to Kannon's paradise (fudaraku tokai )
Localizing Paradise –
Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan
- source : japanese-religions.jp


. WKD : Kumano 熊野 .

. The Yellow Springs, Purification Rituals and Haiku

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Afterlife in Ancient and Medieval China
By Thich Thanh Nguyen

... underworld then came to have other names, such as the Dark City, the Yellow Springs, or the Netherworld.
This was where the dead resided which had nothing to do with the punishment yet.
So,
how and what did the Netherworld look like? There was a common belief that the life in the Netherworld was similar to life on earth. This similarity was clearly depicted through the life of dead being and the netherworld’s government. Firstly, people believed that the dead beings were just the continuation of the living; for example, they needed food and possessed various desires: “Yellow Springs reflected the hierarchy nature of the moral world. If a person had a poor and miserable time when alive, they would have the same in the afterlife.”
Thus, people started to provide the dead with almost everything to enable the dead to live a happy and comfortable life in the netherworld:
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Sailing away
... From Heian to Edo times it’s estimated that some twenty monks in all sailed away in this manner. The base for their suicidal mission was Furdarakusan Temple, one of Kumano’s World Heritage sites. It stands near the coast and is said to have been founded, like Seiganto-ji, by a monk from India called Ragyō Shōnin.
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梅咲くや酒屋へ一里黄泉へ二里
ume saku ya sakaya e ichiri yomi e niri

plums are blossoming -
one ri distance to the liquor shop
two ri distance to the Yellow Springs


Anai Futoshi 穴井太 (1926 - 1997)

one RI 里 is about 3.93 kilometers.
. The use of numbers in Haiku. .


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遠しとは常世か黄泉か冬霞
tooshi to wa tokoyo ka yomi ka fuyugasumi

far away - does that mean
heaven or the yellow springs ?
mist in winter


Nakamura Sonoko 中村苑子(1913-2001)
Born in Shizuoka

. WKD : fuyugasumi 冬霞 winter mist .


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愚案ずるに冥土もかくや秋の暮
guanzuru ni meido mo kaku ya aki no kure

it seems to me that
beyond the grave is like this--
autumn evening

Tr. Addiss


in my humble view
the netherworld must be like this –
autumn evening

Tr. David Landis Barnhill

Written in 延宝8年作, Basho age 37

. Basho, Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉(1644 - 1694)


. Enma, Emma 閻魔天、閻魔王 the King of Hell


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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .
meido - the underworld

. konpaku 魂魄 legends about two souls .

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Chiba 千葉県 夷隅郡 Izumi district

rinshi taiken 臨死体験 near death experience
タマヨバイされて甦った人。三途の川の向かいの高い山から連れ合いが筏に乗ってやってきた。引返すと池の周りに、赤や青の旗が立ち、オンベン(御幣)が回っていた。


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Gunma 群馬県 太田市 Ota city

rinshi taiken 臨死体験 near death experience
Once a Buddhist priest came to perform the last rites, but found that the person might still be alive and shouted at the person "Your time is not yet up!"
Thus the person came back to life. On his way to the underworld he saw a lot of lotus flowers and kind people showed him the way. He also got two delicious meals. When he came to himself, he found himself in the living room of his home, with many people visiting.

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Gunma 群馬県 富岡市 Tomioka city

. hitodama 人魂 / 人玉と伝説 Legends about the human soul .
hitodama 人玉 spirit of a dead person, "soul flame"
It has the size of a Bon lantern for a child and stagers around in the air. It appears in front of a temple or home of a diseased person or is seen on the way to the underworld, but it soon becomes invisible again.


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Hyogo 兵庫県 Asago 朝来市 Asago city

neko 猫 cat
通夜は親類の人が夜通し、猫が死者をまたがないように見張っていた。猫に跨れると、死者の霊が悪霊になって甦るという。

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Hyogo 神戸市 Kobe city

yomigaeri 甦
有馬山清涼院の石文が死んだ後、19日して甦った。冥土のことを聞いたところ、ただ、湖山の間にいて、風景が良いだけで特に見るところもなかったと石文は答えた。



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Iwate 岩手県 雫石 Shizukuishi

yomigaeru / yoosei 妖精 fairy
今は行われないが、昔この地方では死んだ人の膝をまげて縄をかけ、胸の方に屈折しておいた。それはひとつには妖精によって甦らせることを恐れたからである。


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Kanagawa 神奈川県 鎌倉市 Kamakura city

onnome sama おんめ様 , ウブメ / 産女 Ubume
At the temple 大巧寺 Daigyo-Ji
昔、大巧寺の上人が川にかかる橋を通りかかったところ、赤ん坊を抱いたウブメに出会った。冥土の苦難を訴えるウブメに上人が経をあげて回向してやると、その心は鎮められた。数日後、美しい女が上人の前に現れ、お礼として1包みの金を置いていった。上人はこれで宝塔を作ったのだが、それが今日も大巧寺にある。


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Kyoto 京都府

meido de shari o eru 冥途で舎利を得る bringing back relics from the underworld
In the village 藍田村 Aidamura in the district 丹波舟井郡 Tanba Funaigun there lives 山田彦七 Yamada Hikoshichi, who was a pious man saying the 念仏 Nenbutsu prayer regularly.
On the first day of the 12th lunar month in 1698 he died at the age of 27, but the next day he caem back to life.
He started talking about his experience in the underworld, telling people he got some busshari 仏舎利 Buddha's relics there. He was holding something sparkling in his left hand - like a small grain.
But on the next day he died for good and the relic was gone from his hand.
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yomigaeri 甦
天慶年中に、東寺の日蔵が死んだ後に甦った。日蔵が言うには、地獄で鉄窟の中に炭のようになった人が赤灰の上に蹲っていて、我は宇多帝の子であるが、仏寺を焼いて有情を害した罪を受けて苦しんでいる。本国に帰って国王および宰補に奏上して供養の卒塔婆を作れと告げたそうだ。
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yuurei 幽霊 ghost
ある民家で妻が死んだ。ある夜、夫が引きこもっていると、亡妻がやってきて生前大切にしていた鏡を取りに来て、冥土に持ち帰る。その後も夜毎に来て存命中に使った調度を持ち帰ったが、ある夜いぶかしく思い糾問すると幽霊と思ったのは欲深な隣家の女だった。

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Kyoto 右京区 Ukyo ward

meido no tori 冥途の鳥 bird of the underworld
In the village of 宇津村 Utsumura there lives this bird, with white feathers and a red beak. When it calls at night, someone has died in the village.



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Mie 三重県 尾鷲市 Owase city

shinbutsu 新仏 rituals for a person who has just died
線香立ては新仏専用のもので、平常は使わない。蝋燭も一本その傍に立てておくが、これは決して継ぎ足してはいけない。新仏の魂は、この明かりと煙をたよりにして冥土の旅に上がるという。




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Nagano 長野県 茅野市 Chino city

daija 大蛇 huge serpent
甲賀三郎は妻に隠された愛妾を探しに蓼科山に登った。頂上にあった竪穴で翁と媼に出会い、道を尋ねた上に栗餅をもらい、その晩は池畔にあった祠に宿を取った。夜が明けて人が来たが、三郎を見て「大蛇大蛇」と言って逃げ出してしまった。神々が、「冥土の食べ物を食べたので人になることはできない。諏訪湖に入り神になるのがよい」と言ったので、その通りにしたという。



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Nara 奈良県 都祁村 Tsuge mura village

aburi sakana アブリ魚
深江川のアブリ魚は、腹の両側に焼けたような模様がある。子どもたちが魚を焼いているところに弘法大師が通りかかり、買い取って川に放してやると、半焼けの魚はみるみる甦って泳ぎまわった。模様はそのときの焼け焦げの跡。これと同じ話が室生村にもある。



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Niigata 新潟県 長岡市 Nagaoka city

kinki 禁忌 taboo
死者に着せる衣類を縫うのには、縫った糸を止めるのに玉を結ばないこれは、冥土への旅で鬼に引っ張られたときに、すぐに着物が脱げるようにという。


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Osaka 大阪市

Enma-O 閻魔王 king of hell
At the temple 長宝寺 / 長寳寺 Choho-Ji the King of Hell called the priest to visit the underworld, showed him all the pain and suffering there and made him change his ways in the future.



長宝寺 / 長寳寺 Choho-Ji
3-chōme-4 Hirano Honmachi Hirano-ku, Osaka


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Tokyo 東京都 中央区 Chuo ward

. oogonkyuu 黄金宮 Ogon-Kyu Golden Hall .


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Tottori 鳥取県 岩美郡 岩美町 Iwami town

The tamashi 魂 soul of a dead person leaves the home soon, via the gables of the house.
It moves on to the underworld, others say it goes to 摩尼山 Mount Manizan.
On the first equinox after a death, family members make a ritual visit to Mount Manizan.


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Manizan is a mountain in Tottori, also called 喜見山 Kikenzan.
It is in the compound of the temple Mani-Ji and is 357 m high.
There is a temple called 摩尼寺 Mani-Ji.
624 Kakuji, Tottori / 鳥取市覚寺(かくじ)

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. Japan - Shrines and Temples - ABC .


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naraku ならく / 奈落 hell, hades
sanskrit : naraka, niraya


. Diyu 地狱 (Jap. jigoku) (Sanskrit: नरक "Naraka") .
is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology.


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Naraka (Sanskrit: नरक) or Niraya (Pāli: निरय) is a term in Buddhist cosmology usually referred to in English as "hell", "hell realm", or "purgatory". The Narakas of Buddhism are closely related to diyu, the hell in Chinese mythology. A Naraka differs from the hells of Abrahamic religions in two respects: firstly, beings are not sent to Naraka as the result of a divine judgment and punishment; secondly, the length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal, though it is usually very long.

A being is born into a Naraka as a direct result of his or her accumulated karma and resides there for a finite period of time until that karma has achieved its full result. After his or her karma is used up, he or she will be reborn in one of the higher worlds as the result of karma that had not yet ripened.

In the Devaduta Sutta, the 130th discourse of Majjhima Nikaya, the Buddha teaches about hell in vivid detail.

Physically, Narakas are thought of as a series of cavernous layers which extend below Jambudvīpa (the ordinary human world) into the earth. There are several schemes for enumerating these Narakas and describing their torments. The Abhidharma-kosa (Treasure House of Higher Knowledge) is the root text that describes the most common scheme, the Eight Cold Narakas and Eight Hot Narakas.

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Arbuda (頞部陀), the "blister" Naraka, is a dark, frozen plain surrounded by icy mountains and continually swept by blizzards. Inhabitants of this world arise fully grown and abide lifelong naked and alone, while the cold raises blisters upon their bodies. The length of life in this Naraka is said to be the time it would take to empty a barrel of sesame seed if one only took out a single seed every hundred years.

Nirarbuda (刺部陀), the "burst blister" Naraka, is Naraka is even colder than Arbuda. There, the blisters burst open, leaving the beings' bodies covered with frozen blood and pus.

Aṭaṭa (頞听陀) is the "shivering" Naraka. There, beings shiver in the cold, making an aṭ-aṭ-aṭ sound with their mouths.

Hahava (臛臛婆) is the "lamentation" Naraka. There, the beings lament in the cold, going haa, haa in pain.

Huhuva (虎々婆), the "chattering teeth" Naraka, is where beings shiver as their teeth chatter, making the sound hu, hu.

Utpala (嗢鉢羅) is the "blue lotus" Naraka. The intense cold there makes the skin turn blue like the colour of an utpala waterlily.

Padma (鉢特摩), the "lotus" Naraka, has blizzards that cracks open frozen skin, leaving one raw and bloody.

Mahāpadma (摩訶鉢特摩) is the "great lotus" Naraka. The entire body cracks into pieces and the internal organs are exposed to the cold, also cracking.


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Sañjīva, the "reviving" Naraka, has ground made of hot iron heated by an immense fire. Beings in this Naraka appear fully grown, already in a state of fear and misery. As soon as the being begins to fear being harmed by others, their fellows appear and attack each other with iron claws and hell guards appear and attack the being with fiery weapons. As soon as the being experiences an unconsciousness like death, they are suddenly restored to full health and the attacks begin again. Other tortures experienced in this Naraka include having molten metal dropped upon them, being sliced into pieces, and suffering from the heat of the iron ground. Life in this Naraka is 1.62×1012 years long. It is said to be 1000 yojanas beneath Jambudvīpa and 10,000 yojanas in each direction (a yojana being 7 miles, or 11 kilometres).

Kālasūtra, the "black thread" Naraka, includes the torments of Sañjīva. In addition, black lines are drawn upon the body, which hell guards use as guides to cut the beings with fiery saws and sharp axes.Life in this Naraka is 1.296×1013 years long.

Saṃghāta, the "crushing" Naraka, is surrounded by huge masses of rock that smash together and crush the beings to a bloody jelly. When the rocks move apart again, life is restored to the being and the process starts again.Life in this Naraka is 1.0368×1014 years long.

Raurava, the "screaming" Naraka, is where beings run wildly about, looking for refuge from the burning ground. When they find an apparent shelter, they are locked inside it as it blazes around them, while they scream inside. Life in this Naraka is 8.2944×1014 years long.

Mahāraurava, the "great screaming" Naraka, is similar to Raurava.Punishment in here are for people who maintain their own body by hurting others. In this hell, ruru animals known as kravyāda torment them and eat their flesh. Life in this Naraka is 6.63552×1015 years long.

Tapana is the "heating" Naraka, where hell guards impale beings on a fiery spear until flames issue from their noses and mouths.Life in this Naraka is 5.308416×1016 years long.

Pratāpana, the "great heating" Naraka. The tortures here are similar to the Tapana Naraka, but the beings are pierced more bloodily with a trident.Life in this Naraka is 4.2467328×1017 years long. It is also said to last for the length of half an antarakalpa.

Avīci, is the "uninterrupted" Naraka. Beings are roasted in an immense blazing oven with terrible suffering. Life in this Naraka is 3.39738624×1018 years long. It is also said to last for the length of an antarakalpa.

Some sources describe five hundred or even hundreds of thousands of different Narakas.
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. Hachi Netsu Jigoku 八熱地獄 Eight Hot Hells .


. Hachi Kan Jigoku 八寒地獄 Eight Cold Hells .


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僧兵の古寺を奈落に樹氷咲く
soohei no koji o naraku ni juhyoo saku

turning the old temple
of the monk-soldiers into hell -
rime blossoms on trees


Kimura Kohitsuji 木村仔羊




There were many temples where the monks functioned as soldiers too.
Even nowadays there are festivals in their honor.


. soohei, sōhei 僧兵 monk-warrior, monk-soldier .

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あさがほや奈落のふちのやはらかく
asagao ya naraku no fuchi no yawarakaku

morning glories -
the softness of the edge
of hell

Tr. Gabi Greve

Masaki Yuuko 正木ゆう子 Masaki Yuko
(1952 - ) from Kumamoto

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桜散る山車の奈落の昼の闇
伊藤いと子

辻廻す山車の奈落を人知らず
出島かず江

腕もがれ鬼は奈落へ嵯峨念仏
鈴木妙子

堪へたりし金神奈落寒明けぬ
稲垣きくの

逆縁の奈落を鳴けり青葉木菟
神戸周子

散り紅葉奈落しずめる祇王の地
千曲山人

倶利伽羅の奈落へ落葉急ぐ木々
入村玲子

工事場の奈落に落葉舞ひつづけ
鈴木貞雄

水暮れて奈落のごとし朴落葉
渡辺古鏡

きらめきつ奈落へ飛べる木の葉かな
西村和子


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. Jigoku Bosatsu 地獄菩薩 "Bosatsu of Hell" .
- - - - - Namu Jigoku Daibosatsu 南無地獄大菩薩, Jizoo Bosatsu 地蔵菩薩

. jigokudoo 地獄道(じごくどう)The World of Hell .

. Jigoku no Baba 地獄の婆., Datsueba 奪衣婆 or 脱衣婆 the Old Hag of Hell .

. jigokuyaki, jigoku yaki 地獄焼 grilling seafood alive - "Hellish grilling" .  


. Juu Oo, Jū-ō 十王, Juo, Ju-O - 10 Ten Kings of Hell, Ten Yama Kings .


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Hachi Kan Jigoku Cold Hells

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Hachi Kan Jigoku, Hachikan Jigoku, Hakkan Jigoku 八寒地獄 Eight Cold Hells
Eight Frozen Hells

There are also
. Hachi Netsu Jigoku 八熱地獄 Eight Hot Hells .


The Eight Cold Hells lie under the continent of Jambudvipa next to the eight hot hells.



source : Jigoku Nyumon



Abuda 頞部陀(あぶだ)地獄 Arbuda

Nirabuta 刺部陀(にらぶた)地獄 Nirarbuda

Atada 頞听陀(あただ)地獄 Atata

Kakaba 臛臛婆(かかば)地獄 Hahava

Kokoba 虎々婆(ここば)地獄 Huhuva

Upara, Ubara 嗢鉢羅(うばら)地獄 Utpala

Hadoma - Guren 鉢特摩(はどま)地獄 Padma

Maka Hadoma 摩訶鉢特摩(まかはどま)地獄 Mahapadma


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Hachi Dai Jigoku 八大地獄 Eight Great Hells
Hachi Netsu Jigoku 八熱地獄 Eight Hot Hells


as discribed in the sutra Jooagonkyoo 長阿含経
According to the bad deeds done in this world



source : www12.canvas.ne.jp/horai
Hell of Avici 阿鼻地獄 


1 tookatsu 等活地獄 Reviving
殺生

2 gokujoo jigoku 黒縄地獄 Black Rope
殺生、盗み

3 shugoo jigoku, shuugoo jigoku 衆合地獄 Crushing Mountains
殺生、盗み、邪淫

4 kyookan jigoku 叫喚地獄 Shrieking
殺生、盗み、邪淫、飲酒

5 dai kyookan jigoku 大叫喚地獄 Great Shrieking
殺生、盗み、邪淫、飲酒、妄語(うそ)

6 shoonetsu jigoku 焦熱地獄 / 炎熱地獄 Scorching
殺生、盗み、邪淫、飲酒、妄語、邪見

7 dai shoonetsu jigoku 大焦熱地獄 / 大炎熱地獄 Great Scorching
殺生、盗み、邪淫、飲酒、妄語、邪見、犯持戒人(尼僧・童女などへの強姦)

8 abi jigoku 阿鼻地獄 / 無間地獄 Avici
殺生、盗み、邪淫、飲酒、妄語、邪見、犯持戒人、父母・阿羅漢(聖者)殺害。

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. naraku ならく / 奈落 Naraka hell, hades .

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. Muken no Kane 無間の鐘 "Unlimited Bell", "Soundless Bell" .
abi jigoku 阿鼻地獄 Hell of Avici - is called 無間地獄 "Mugen Jigoku".



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Avīci
In Buddhism, Avīci (Sanskrit and Pali for "without waves" – Japanese and Chinese: 無間地獄, Wújiàn dìyù and 阿鼻地獄, Ābí dìyù) or Avichi,
is the lowest Level of the Naraka or "hell" realm, into which the dead who have committed grave misdeeds may be reborn. It is said to be a cube 20,000 yojanas (120,000 to 300,000 kilometres) to a side, buried deep underneath the divine (nonvisible) earth. Avīci is often translated into English as "interminable" or "incessant", due to the idea that those beings that have been sent there languish there eternally. The other hells function more like Purgatory, where after perhaps a few aeons of suffering, one might be reborn as some sort of lowly life-form in a somewhat less horrible place; but, those sent to Avīci Hell are thought to be hopeless of any respite.
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Buddhism teaches that rebirth into Naraka is temporary, while the offenders works off the karma they garnered in life. Rebirth into Avīci hell is not eternal. However, the Lotus Sutra provides an example of humans who have to endure long-term suffering in Avīci. Some sutras state that rebirth in Avīci will be for innumerable kalpas (aeons). When the offender passes away after one kalpa, it is reborn in the same place, suffering for another kalpa, and on and on until it has exhausted its bad karma.
For this reason, Avīci hell is also known as the "non-stop way" (無間道).
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THE LARGER SUTRA MANDALA
Immeasurable Pain in the Three Evil Paths




The bottom panel shows painful retributions of evil acts. In the right is the realm of animals; one can see animals and birds fighting each other for survival. Next, below it in the corner is the realm of hungry spirits, who suffer from hunger and thirst ; as soon as they want to drink water, it turns into flames.

The eight scorching hells are depicted in the most realistic touch:

First, the hell of "All Reviving" (1), where sinners undergo interminable pain; when they die, the guard revives them and forces them to receive further pain.

Second, the hell of "Black Rope" (2), where sinners are forced to walk on the red-hot iron ropes; when they fall off, a great mass of fire burns them. Also, a red-hot iron rope is tied around the sinner and the guard cuts the body along the rope.

Third, the hell of "Crushing Mountains" (3), where sinners are hung upside down, crushed with a rock, or are chasing after women only to be cut by the sharp edges of the leaves.

Fourth, the hell of "Shrieking" (4), where sinners are driven into flames, or red-hot iron bars are forced into their mouths, or their intestines are pulled out.

Fifth, the hell of "Scorching" (5), where sinners are fried in huge flames.

Sixth, the hell of "Great Shrieking" (6), where sinners are tied to stakes and the guards pull out their tongues with red-hot iron pincers.

Seventh, the hell of "Great Scorching" (7), where sinners are burnt alive in a huge mass of fire.

Eighth, the hell of "Uninterrupted Torment" (Avici) (8), where big dogs, pythons and monsters with many heads vomit volumes of flame to burn the sinners. In the Larger Sutra there is no description of hell, but the artist depicted it based on Genshin's Ojoyoshu.
source : www12.canvas.ne.jp/horai


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Hachi Kan Jigoku 八寒地獄 Eight Cold Hells

. Hakkan Jigoku 八寒地獄 Eight Frozen Hells .


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2013/04/10

Ten Kings of Hell

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Juu Oo 十王, Juo, Ju-O - 10 Ten Kings of Hell
Ten Yama Kings



source : city.numata.gunma.jp

- Juuoozu 十王図 paintings of the 10 kings - With Jizo Bosatsu in the middle, there are

秦広王・初江王・宋帝王・五官王・閻魔王・変成王・泰山王・平等王・都市王・五道転輪王

Each of these kings has a representative in the Buddhist pantheon
and is responsible for a set of seven days after death:
(Click on each image for more photos.)



Shinkoo oo 秦広王 (不動明王 Fudo Myo-O)
first seven days 初七日(7日目・6日後)



Shokoo oo 初江王 (釈迦如来 Shaka Nyorai)
second seven days 二七日(14日目・13日後)



Sootei oo 宋帝王 (文殊菩薩 Monju Bosatsu)
third seven days 三七日(21日目・20日後)



Gokan oo 五官王 (普賢菩薩 Fugen Bosatsu)
fourth seven days 四七日(28日目・27日後)

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Enma oo - Emma  閻魔王 (地蔵菩薩 Jizo Bosatsu)
fifth seven days 五七日(35日目・34日後)

. Enma, Emma 閻魔天、閻魔王 Yama-raja, King of Hell .


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Henjoo oo 変成王 (弥勒菩薩 Miroku Bosatsu)
sixth seven days 六七日(42日目・41日後)




. Taizan Fukun 泰山府君 / 太山府君 King of Hell .
Daizan oo 泰山王 Taizan-O (薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai)
seventh seven days 七七日(49日目・48日後)

(after 49 days, the soul leaves this world and goes to the other world.



Hyoodoo oo 平等王 (観音菩薩 Kannon Bosatsu)
100 days after death 百か日(100日目・99日後)



Toshi oo 都市王 (勢至菩薩 Seishi Bosatsu)
first death aniversary 一周忌(2年目・1年後)



Godoo tenrin oo 五道転輪王 (阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai)
third death aniversary 三回忌(3年目・2年後)


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Jū-ō (Juo) 十王 TEN JUDGES OF HELL
The Jū-ō (lit. = 10 kings) concept is based on Chinese Taoism and was introduced to Japan during the Heian Period (794-1185 AD). In Kamakura, it flourished in the 14th century, and seems to be the Buddhist counterpart of the Roman Catholic concept of purgatory, the latter stemming in large part from Dante's Inferno. According to the Juo teachings, a wicked person goes to hell after death while a good person goes to paradise. Those whose fate is not yet certain after their death are subject to weekly trials, during which their deeds while living are determined and classified. They are judged by the Ten Kings (the Juo) in the courts of the netherworld.
source : Mark Schumacher



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Ten Courts of Hell in China
The concept of the "Ten Courts of Hell" began after Chinese folk religions were influenced by Buddhism. In Chinese mythology, the Jade Emperor put King Yama in charge of overseeing the affairs of Diyu. There are 12,800 hells located under the earth - eight dark hells, eight cold hells and 84,000 miscellaneous hells located at the edge of the universe.



All will go to Diyu (jigoku 地獄) after death but the period of time one spends in Diyu depends on the severity of the sins he or she has committed, and after receiving due punishment, he or she will eventually be sent for reincarnation. In the meantime, souls will pass from stage to stage at the decision of Yama. Yama also reduced the number of hells to ten. He later divided Diyu into ten courts, each overseen by a "Yama King", while he remained as the sovereign ruler of Diyu.
source : wikipedia



quote- Daoism
Origin of the Yamas of the Ten Hells
The Yamas were also known as the Kings of Hell ( 閰羅王 Yanluo Wang ) or Kings of Souls. Originally, Yama was a Chinese rendering of the Sanskrit word Yanmo or Yan Moluo. In Indian mythical stories, Yama, along with his sister, acted as the ruler of hell where he controlled male souls and his sister dealt with female souls. As the ruler as well as controller of hell, Yama started to become popular in China during the Southern and Northern dynasties. Originally, there was only one Yama. But owing to his increasing functions, he was transformed into five Yamas, assisted by 18 aides.

During the Tang dynasty, it became popular that the Heavenly Emperor issued the designation for Yama and conferred on him the privilege of controlling soldiers at the Five Sacred Mountains, and that hell consisted of ten hells, which were ruled respectively by ten kings. They were known as the Ten Kings of Hell ( 地府十王 Difu Shiwang ). Each of the Ten Kings had his own name as well as title.
Their general title was 'Yamas of the Ten Halls' ( 十殿閰王 Shidian Yanwang ).
source : en.daoinfo.org/wiki

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source : info.pref.fukui.jp/bunka/bunkazai

木造 十王像 - Wooden statues of the 10 kings of hell

Echizen Town 越前市
Important Treasures of Fukui Prefecture - 福井県内の文化財


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. juuoo moode 十王詣(じゅうおうもうで) visiting the 10 Kings of Hell .
kigo for late summer

juuoo mairi 十王詣(じゅうおうまいり)First visit to the 10 kings of hell
kigo for the New Year

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毛虫焼く十王像を見たる後
kemushi yaku juu oo zoo o mitaru ato

burning a hairy caterpillar
after I have seen the statues
of 10 Kings of Hell


Sano Kazue 佐野一恵


. WKD : kemushi 毛虫 hairy caterpillar .


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