Kumamoto Henro Kyushu

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Kumamoto 熊本県 Henro Pilgrims

50 願成寺 Ganjo-Ji
51 勘代寺 Kandai-Ji
52 高寺院 Takatera-In
53 観蓮寺 Kanren-Ji
54 医王寺 Io-Ji
55 本蔵院 Honzo-In
56 金剛寺 Kongo-Ji
57 蓮華院誕生寺 Renge-In Tanjo-Ji
58 金剛寺 Kongo-Ji

98 生善院 Shozen-in
99 高野寺 Koya-Ji
100 金剛乗寺 Kongojo-Ji
101 大勝寺 Taisho-Ji


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50 Ganjooji 願成寺 Ganjo-Ji
伝法山
熊本県人吉市願成寺町956 / Ganjojimachi, Hitoyoshi


51 Kandaiji 勘代寺 Kandai-Ji
遍照山吉祥院
熊本県球磨郡多良木町久米1396 / Kume, Taragi, Kuma District


52 Takaterain 高寺院 Takatera-In
金剛山
熊本県球磨郡山江村大字山田甲1640 / Kō Yamada, Yamae-mura, Kuma-gun


53 Kanrenji 観蓮寺 Kanren-Ji
千福山
熊本県人吉市城本町村山1363 / Hitoyoshi, Murayama


54 医王寺 Io-Ji
白雲山
熊本県八代市袋町5-34 / Fukuromachi, Yatsushiro


55 Honzooin 本蔵院 Honzo-In
最栄山
熊本県熊本市中央区本荘6-15-50 / Honjo, Chuo Ward, Kumamoto


56 Kongooji 金剛寺 Kongo-Ji
白蓮山
熊本県熊本市中央区新屋敷1-22-12 / Shinyashiki, Chuo Ward, Kumamoto,


57 Tanjooji 蓮華院誕生寺 Renge-In Tanjo-Ji
高原山
熊本県玉名市築地2288 / Tsuiji, Tamana


Nr. 58 金剛寺 Kongo-Ji
熊本県荒尾市宮内出目373 / Kunaideme, Arao


98 Shoozenin 生善院 Shozen-in
千光山
熊本県球磨郡水上村大字岩野3542 / Iwano, Mizukami, Kuma District


Nr. 99 . Kooyaji 高野寺 Koya-Ji .
青井山 Aoi san
熊本県人吉市下青井町４７ / Shimoaoimachi, Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto


. 100 Kongōjō-ji 護国山 金剛乗寺 Kongojo-Ji .
熊本県山鹿市山鹿1592 / Yamaga, Kumamoto


101 Taishooji 大勝寺 Taisho-Ji
成田山 Naritasan
熊本県荒尾市下井手1595-6 / Shimoide, Arao


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. Fudō Myō-ō, Fudoo Myoo-Oo 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O
Acala Vidyârâja - Vidyaraja – Fudo Myoo .

. 九州三十六不動尊霊場 Kyushu - 36 Fudo temples .

. . Pilgrimages to Fudo Temples 不動明王巡礼
Fudo Myo-O Junrei - Introduction - .

The Five Great Wisdom Kings, Godai Myo-O - 五大明王
. The Five Great Elements of the Universe - 地水火風空の五大 .

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. 四国お遍路さん Pilgrims in Shikoku . - General Information

Koya San in Wakayama

Kobo Daishi Kukai 弘法大師　空海
(Kooboo Daishi, Kuukai)

. Gyoki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 (668 - 749) Saint Gyōki .


Haiku and Henro:
.... . The Haiku Henro Pilgrimage  

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Daibutsu Kyoto

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Daibutsu in Kyoto 京都の大仏様

. daibutsu 大仏 Big Buddha statues .
- Introduction -
The best known are in Nara and Kamakura.

There have been four BIG BUDDHA statues build in Kyoto in the course of history, but all of them are now lost.


京都大仏御殿盛衰記 - 村山修一



（『都名所図絵』より、赤丸内に大仏の顔が見える）
Miyako Meisho Zue : The face of the Daibutsu can be seen in the red circle.
Now there is a public park : 大仏殿跡緑地公園

- reference source : shihobe505/archives -


. Hookooji, Hōkō-ji 方広寺 Hoko-Ji .

Toyotomi Hideyoshi 豊臣秀吉 ordered its construction to appease the souls of the Tensho earthquake victims, January 18, 1586, with a magnitude of M 7.8.
He had a sculptor from China make a huge wooden statue.　
It was then covered with clay and laquer and finally gold foil.

Hideyoshi was determined that the capital city should have a Daibutsu temple to surpass that of Nara.
He is reputed to have claimed at the outset that he would complete construction in half the time it took Emperor Shōmu to complete the Great Buddha of Nara.



The hall and the statue was destroyed by the Bunroku earthquake before it was finished in August 14,1596.
Two years later, Hideyoshi died.

His son Toyotomi Hideyori 豊臣秀頼 re-built the temple and statue, this time to be cast in bronze to make it last.
But it was again destroyed by fire in 1602.
The next reconstruction was finished in 1612.
That was when the huge bronze bell was cast.
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !



　Construction of the Great Buddha by Hideyoshi
秀吉の大仏造立 - 河内将芳 Kawauchi Masayoshi

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The 24-meter-high Kyoto Daibutsu (no longer extant) of Hōkōji Temple 方広寺 was built during the reign of Toyotomi Hideyoshi 豊臣秀吉 (1536-1598).
Toyotomi founded this Tendai-sect temple and ordered the creation of its giant monument to honor the spirit of his dead mother and his ancestors. After his own death it became the Toyotomi mortuary temple. Construction of the giant statue reportedly took only three years (as compared to 20 years for the Nara Daibutsu).
The wood image was made by noted sculpture Kōshō 康正 (1534-1621), the head of the Shichijō Bussho 七条仏所 (Seventh Avenue Atelier), a major sculpting workshop of the Keiha school located in Kyoto. However, the statue was destroyed by an earthquake soon after its completion in 1596.
Another statue was soon commissioned, this time in bronze, but it was destroyed in an accidental fire during the casting process in 1602.
A third effigy was commissioned between 1609 and 1616, but it was ruined in another natural disaster in 1622.
A fourth statue, this time made of wood, was created in 1664 by the Buddhist sculpture Genshin 玄信 (active mid-17th century, part of Kōshō’s lineage). It was destroyed by lightning in 1789.


Tokyo National Museum

All that remains of this once spectacular landmark is a small wooden maquette (hinagata 雛形) attributed to Genshin.
Note:
Tokyo National Museum attributes the maquette to sculptor Fujimura Chūen 藤村忠円, a student of Genshin. But research by Chō Yōichi (published in TNM’s own journal, #554, June 1998) explains why Genshin is the likely creator.


Mode, Attributed to Genshin 玄信.

--- Says scholar Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey
in A Song for the Shogun: Engelbert Kaempfer and 17th-c. Japan:
“The only detailed pictorial record of the Kyoto Daibutsu is from the drawings of the German physician Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1712), who stayed in Japan from 1690 to 1692. In his writings, he noted the particulars, from the ’long bovine ears’ and the ’frizzy hair’ to the fact that there would be space enough for three Japanese mats on its outstretched palm. He measured out the distances for a more detailed record, and noted that the width between the shoulders was equivalent to fifteen paces.”
(Site Editor: The effigy he witnessed must have been the statue built in 1664.)

--- Says scholar Jens Hvass in 1999:
..... The Daibutsu at Tōdai-ji in Nara in 752.
..... The Daibutsu in Kamakura in 1252.
The third big Buddha figure was erected in Kyoto in the late 16th century by the big upstart in Japanese history, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-98). It was even bigger than its two predecessors were, and by that time in Japanese history, legitimization through architectural manifestations seems to have become an unquestionable necessity of power positions.”
- source : Mark Schumacher



Sketch of Hōkōji Daibutsu by Kaempfer - wikipedia -

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京都 ～まぼろし大仏の旅～
東福寺
・京都の町の南東、鴨川のほとりにある正面橋。大仏様の真正面にあったことから名づけられたという。
The bridge Shomen-bashi 正面橋 "Front Bridge" was in the front of the Daibutsu Temple.

・橋の先にある方広寺は４００年ほど前に創建された由緒あるお寺。戦国の頃の文化財も数多く残されている。
・明治時代に撮影した写真に大仏殿が写っている。高さ約１０ｍ、江戸時代の終わり頃に木で造られた。胸から上だけだったが、親しみのあるお顔。
・江戸時代の京都を描いた絵図にも大仏様が載っている。大仏殿を造るため、木材を川から引き上げている。京都の大仏はたくさんの町の人たちの力で造られたが、４代目の大仏だという。
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Postal stamp : Daibutsu Mae
京都大仏前郵便局　風景印
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方広寺の大釣鐘 Hoko-Ji and the Big Bell


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Koshoji Iwafune Tochigi

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Kooshooji 高勝寺 Kosho-Ji, Tochigi
岩船山 高勝寺 Iwafunesan, Iwafune-San Kosho-Ji



〒329-4307 栃木県下都賀郡 岩舟町静３ / Tochigi, Shimotsuke-gun, Iwafune-machi, Shizuka 3

This is one of the three most important temples in honor of
Jizo Bosatsu　地蔵菩薩.

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高勝寺 History of Kosho-ji
Priest Myogan, living in Daisen, Tottori, had a desire to meet a living Jizo (a Buddhist saint) and so, went on a trip to east Japan. He traveled and looked for Jizo, and eventually arrived at Iwafune. As dusk fell, he found a mountain hermitage in the middle of the rock, where a man called Igabo lived. Igabo kindly gave him a night’s lodging, and told him a living Jizo would come out on the top of the rock on the 18th and 24th of every month. The priest was happy to hear that and asked Igabo if he could stay at the hermitage for a while.

One day a villager visited Igabo to help him plow a field on the following day. Then a different villager came and told him that he wanted Igabo to thatch his roof the next day. Then another villager appeared and asked him to plane boards for his house, also on the next day. Then yet another villager asked Igabo to dig a well —you guessed it— the next day. Igabo answered “Sure!” to all of them. Myogan murmured, “It looks strange. He received all these requests, but how can he do everything in one day?”

The next morning, Igabo left the hermitage and began to do the work. The priest Myogan followed Igabo secretly. But soon Myogan was given the slip. So, he went around the places where Igabo should have been helping. To his surprised, Igabo was working very hard at all the places he promised.

Igabo came back to the hermitage at night. Myogan thought Igabo must be exhausted from the hard work. But he said in a happy voice, “Let’s get up early and go to see a living Jizo tomorrow!”

Early in the morning, Myogan and Igabo scrambled up the rocky mountain and reached the summit. Just at that moment, the sun rose and birds chirped. Myogan sat on a rock and prayed wholeheartedly that a living Jizo would come. Finally, brilliant light was released from the sky and a Jizo appeared. Myogan felt supreme bliss for a while. When Myogan came to, he found himself alone. Myogan was so happy that he didn’t realize Igabo had left.

After that Myogan returned to his homeland. And the next year, he came back to Iwafune to see Igabo. But he couldn’t find the hermitage Igabo had lived in. He asked some villagers about Igabo, but no one knew about the hermitage or Igabo. He was sad. And then he went to the place the hermitage used to be, and found a stone Jizo statue there. Myogan looked at the Jizo statue carefully, and suddenly realized that the face of the Jizo was exactly the same as Igabo. Eventually, Myogan understood that the living Jizo was Igabo himself!

Myogan established a temple on the rock of Iwafune and enshrined the Jizo statue in 771. After that, Myogan protected the temple and did his best for the villagers, much as Igabo had. Since then, the number of Jizo statues has been increasing, due to the donation of believers.

Tochigi Iwafune-san Kosho-ji Temple
Iwafune-san Rock looks like a boat left on the broad Kanto Plain.
The rock itself has been deified and is worshiped as a god. It is considered to be the place where spirits get together and come back to the next world. The top of the rock has been a sacred place for more than 1200 years and Kosho-ji Temple has been a great support to people living in all over the Kanto district.
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There are huge numbers of Jizo statues in this temple. People believe Jizo bless barren couples with children, help mothers with safe deliveries and bless the children with health—all through divine grace. The origin of these Jizo statues is based on the folklore described below.
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The highest point of the rock is 173 meters above sea level. The edges of this rocky mountain are all cliffs, with Jizo statues scattered around along the edges. ...
- source : Tomoko Kamishima 2013 -



shooshin Jizoo 生身の地蔵 living Jizo at 下野の岩船 Mount Iwafune in Shimotsuke (Tochigi).
Iwafune Jizoo 岩船地蔵 Iwafune Jizo

Guseiboo Myoogan 弘誓坊 明願 Guseibo Myogan, priest from 大山 Mount Daisen, Tottori,
came to Tochigi in 777 (宝亀8).

Igaboo 伊賀坊 Igabo, Iga-Bo

Later 徳川吉宗 Shogun Yoshimune had the main hall rebuilt, but it was lost in a fire in 1926.
The pagoda dates back to 1751.



Mount Iwafunesan

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shuin 朱印 temple stamp




- Homepage of the temple kousyouji
- source : www.iwafunesan.com

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- Yearly Festivals 年中行事 -



During the Spring and Autumn Equinox, many visitors come to look at the many Jizo statues to find the face of a loved one.


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. Jizoo Bosatsu 地蔵菩薩 Jizo Bosatsu Kshitigarbha .
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. Legends about Jizo Bosatsu - 地蔵菩薩 .

. O-Mamori お守り　Amulets and Talismans .


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kaidan ordination platform

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kaidan 戒壇 platform for Buddhist ordination

A special hall to perform a Buddhist ordination (kairitsu 戒律).


source : pikapikasos.blog95.fc2.com
戒壇巡り Kaidan meguri
岐阜県関市西日吉町35　/ 関善光寺 Seki Zenko-Ji in Gifu

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Kaidanin 戒壇院 Kaidan-In 戒壇堂 Kaidan-Do


source : todaiji.or.jp/contents
Nara, Todai-Ji, 戒壇堂 Kaidan-Do

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A Tendai 天台 sect building that contains an ordination platform used exclusively for the ceremony to impart the Buddhist precepts upon priests and nuns.
At the ceremony, called jukai 受戒, the initiates vow to accept and follow the precepts of Buddhism. The Chinese priest Jianzhen (Jp; Ganjin 鑑真, 688-763), who reached Japan in the mid-8c is said to have ordered an ordination platform to be erected in front of Toudaiji 東大寺 (Todai-Ji)  (Nara), in April 754, for the precepts of Emperor Shoumu 聖武. In May 754, it was relocated west of the Daibutsuden 大仏殿 where a building had been erected for the platform. This is considered the first in Japan. The building was often destroyed and rebuilt. Finally, in 1731 at Reiunji 霊雲寺 in Tokyo, it was rebuilt in its original form.

Another kaidan-in was built in 1678 as the center of the Tendai sect. It is called the Enryakuji Daijou Kaidan-in dou 延暦寺大乗戒壇院堂 and is located in Shiga prefecture. It is a 5×5 bay square, single-storied structure. The kaidan is 3×3 bays and a 1-bay wide aisle surrounds it. This aisle is called a mokoshi 裳階 and has a pent roof. The kaidan-in has a coffered ceiling, and the roof over it is pyramidal hougyou-zukuri 宝形造, with an undulating bargeboard karahafu 唐破風. Roofing is tochibuki 栩葺, that is, wood roofing 1cm to 3cm thick and 9 cm to 15cm wide.
The kaidan-in or daijou kaidan-in correspond to the Kanjoudou 潅頂堂 of the Shingon 真言 sect.
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kanjoodoo 潅頂堂 Kanjo-Do

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Also called kanjouin 潅頂院 Kanjo-In.
The hall used to conduct the ceremony to confer the basic precepts and mystic teachings of Esoteric Buddhism, mikkyou 密教, on young men who are to be trained as Buddhist priests. An important part of the ceremony is the pouring of water over the young men's heads as part of their initiation rites. Kanjou are known to have existed at Mt. Kouya 高野, Wakayama prefecture, the headquarters of the Shingon 真言 sect, and at Jingoji 神護寺 in Kyoto.
Only one Shingon sect kanjoudou still exists at Kyouougokokuji 教王護国寺 (also called Touji 東寺) in Kyoto.
This building, called the Kanjouin 潅頂院, was rebuilt in 1634. The TOUHOUKI 東宝記 describes the original kanjoudou, at Mt. Kouya, as having been constructed in the twin hall style narabidou 双堂, with a large main hall shoudou 正堂, of 5×4 bays and a separate worship hall raidou 礼堂. These two halls were connected by a passage-like hall called an ai-no-ma 合の間.
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. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 - Introduction .

かいだんの穴よりひらり小てふ（ちょう）哉
kaidan no ana yori hirari kochoo kana

lightly, from a passageway
beneath Amida Buddha
a small butterfly
Tr. Chris Drake

This hokku is from the third month (April) of 1818. In Issa's diary the hokku is placed next to a hokku about Zenkoji Temple, and he also mentions making a pilgrimage to Zenkoji on the morning of 3/7 (April 11), so presumably this hokku is based on that visit to the temple, which is located only a few miles from his hometown. This large temple is very famous and attracts pilgrims from throughout Japan. One of the highlights of a pilgrimage to the temple was (and still is) passing through a completely dark passageway under the raised main hall, a hall in which a very old statue of Amida Buddha is worshiped. The statue is so fragile that it is never shown, and at official "showings" an exact copy, itself very old, is shown instead.

The corridor beneath the high floor of the main hall is known as the "ordination platform," but its larger purpose is to allow all people visiting the temple to form a close relationship with Amida Buddha. People do this by wholly depending on and trusting completely in Amida in spite of being unable to see anything down in the corridor. Feeling their way in the dark through the winding corridor, an experience that is said to be a bit frightening for some pilgrims, their hands eventually touch a large metal key attached to the wall on their right. The key is located directly beneath the statue of Amida Buddha in the hall above, and it symbolizes entrance into the Pure Land. If people think wholly of Amida while touching this key, it is believed that Amida will feel their sincerity and promise to accept them into the Pure Land. After symbolically touching Amida and sensing his promise, people then feel their way to the exit, a stairway located a few feet from the entrance. See the contemporary picture of the passageway entrance at the link below.

In the hokku one of the pilgrims is revealed to be a small butterfly. Since ancient times in Japan and the Ryukyus, butterflies have been evoked in songs and poems as the physical manifestations of souls and gods, so Issa may feel that the butterfly fluttering so freely out of the passageway exit is the soul of someone who sincerely prayed to Amida down in the darkness and is now flying through the air of the Pure Land. Or perhaps Issa takes the butterfly to be a sign that his own recent underground feelings toward Amida have been mutual. If so, his own feet must now feel as light as the butterfly.

The link below is to a picture put up by the Issa Memorial Museum of two pilgrims in Issa's age going down into the dark corridor beneath the high floor of Zenkoji Temple's main hall, a corridor that passes directly under an especially revered statue of Amida Buddha. Two monks stand at lower right:



Chris Drake

一茶と善光寺 - 戒壇巡り」
- source : issakinenkan.com/diary -


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kaidan no ana yori hirari ko chô kana

from a hole in the temple's
pulpit, swish!
little butterfly

Kaidan doesn't signify, as I first thought, the step of a staircase. Shinji Ogawa notes that it means "an ordination platform" in a large Buddhist temple, like Zenkôji Temple in Issa's home province.

From this platform, Buddhist precepts are taught; Kogo dai jiten (Shogakukan 1983) 499, and so I've chosen the English word, "pulpit," to approximate its meaning. No longer a caterpillar, Issa's butterfly has been reborn as a pure, innocent embodiment of enlightenment. This little "priest" has more to teach about Buddha's law than human preachers.

- source : David Lanoue -

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戒壇院裏の崖なる穴施行
Kaidan-In ura no gake naru ana segyoo

Kaidan-In hall
in the cliff behind it
offerings in the holes

茨木和生 Ibaraki Kazuo (1939 - )

. ana segyoo 穴施行 placing alms food at the holes for animals .
kigo for late winter

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戎壇院辺りは静かお山焼 橋本道子

戒壇院前に屯す袋角 森孝子

戒壇院霰ひと撒きして雪に 赤松[けい]子

杉花粉とぶ下野の戒壇院 大坪貞子

余寒なる戒壇院址何の花弁 橋本榮治

靴音一つ戒壇院の秋の昼 鷲谷七菜子

端居して戒壇院に女あり 高野素十

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kinun Jizo for Money

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kinun Jizoo 金運地蔵　Kin-Un Jizo for Money

kinun shoorai 金運招来
zaiun koojoo 財運向上 make more money
shoobai hanjoo 商売繁盛 good business
.kinun, kin un 金運お守り to make money - amulets .
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金福地蔵 Kinpuku Jizo for Luck with Money



- source : yahoo.co.jp/waraku-store


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Origami 折紙 Six Jizo for all purposes

6人のお地蔵さんが作れてそれぞれ
「学（賢」「体（勝）」「金（福）」「美（輝）」「芸（才）」「剛（強）」





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開運ゴールドプレート護符地蔵大菩薩子供守護金運
Gold Plate for your purse



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銭塚地蔵尊 Asakusa Zenizuka Jizo - かんかん地蔵 Kankan Jizo
Zeniduka-Jizou

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One day in the early 18th century, a certain housewife happened to dig up a jar full of coins from her garden. Worried, however, that she and her husband would become lazy due to reliance on this new-found wealth and lose what they had, she decided to put it back into the ground. This mind-set brought the family prosperity. The couple placed a statue of Bodhisattva Jizo on the spot where she had buried the jar.
“Kanei Tsuho”



Zenizuka Jizo-do Hall enshrines this image of Bodhisattva Jizo, still visited by large numbers of people praying for success in business. The coins are said to be buried under the stone pagoda housing six statues of Bodhisattva Jizo in the center of the hall. Thus originated the name zenizuka (“mound where the treasure is buried”). Buddhist ceremonies are offered each month on dates containing the number four (4, 14 and 24), and a particularly large ceremony is held on the 24th of January, May and September.
The current Jizo-do Hall
was reconstructed in 1964. Visitors to the hall offer salt, incense and candles to the images of Jizo. Because of the salt used to purify the Jizo images, the statues here are also known as Shioname-jizo (Salt-licking Jizo).
- source : senso-ji.jp/guide/zeniduka -



People offer a small pot of salt and then take one of the two black stones to hit the statue.
This makes the sound of "kankan", hence the name. The white figure used to be Jizo . . .

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Kakurinji Harima

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Kakurinji 鶴林寺 Kakurin-Ji Harima, Hyogo
加古川市加古川町北在家424 / 424 Kakogawachō Kitazaike, Kakogawa-shi, Hyōgo

Nr. 09 on this pilgrimage :
. 播州薬師霊場 Yakushi pilgrim temples in Banshu - Harima / Hyogo 兵庫県 .
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He sits on iwaza 岩座, a stone podestal, which is quite unusual for a Yakushi statue.

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蓮華じゃなく岩？に座った珍しいお薬師さん。
- source : generalgingerxxx.doorblog.jp/archives

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刀田山鶴林寺 Todasan Kakurin-Ji
Toda no Taishi 刀田の太子



The temple was built on request of Imperial Prince Shotoku in the hope to spread Buddhism. Its original name was Shitennoji Shoryo-In.
It hosts many treasures and cultural property from the Heian and Muromachi Period.


. Imperial Prince Shotoku 聖徳太子 Shotoku Taishi (Daishi) . 574-622

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sange no hana　散華の花 auspicious flower petals

. sange 散華 "scattering blossoms" amulets .

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- Homepage of the temple
- source : kakurinji.or.jp


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◆薬師三尊像 Yakushi Sanzon Trias



◆ Eben Hooshi 恵便法師像 Priest Eben Hoshi from 高句麗 Kokuri, Korea
聖徳太子が、加古川下流に身をかくしていた僧、恵便のところに足を運ばれ「木の丸殿」を作って教を受けられたと言われている。

◆行道面
◆釈迦像
◆行基菩薩像 Gyoki Bosatsu
◆聖徳太子像
◆如意輪観音像 / ◆十一面観音 / ◆聖観音立像
◆十二神将より伐折羅大将像
◆持國天 / ◆広目天 / ◆増長天 / ◆多聞天
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. Yakushi sanzon 薬師三尊 Yakushi Triad, Trias, Trinity .

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- Yearly Festivals 　年中行事-

1月1日 - 初詣
1月8日 - 修正会（鬼追い）
2月15日 - 涅槃会
3月21日 - 春彼岸法要（太子会式）
3月22日 - 太子法要（太子会式）
3月23日 - 柴灯大護摩供（太子会式）
5月8日 - 花祭り（納骨・納髪・塔婆回向）
7月下旬 - 早朝坐禅会
8月7日 - 盆施餓鬼会
9月 - 秋坐禅会
十三夜 - 観月会
12月31日 - 除夜の鐘

月例行事　－ every Month
毎月8日 - 写経と法話の会
毎月18日 - 観音講

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Kani Yakushi Gifu

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Kani Yakushi 蟹薬師 "Crab Yakushi"
大寺山願興寺 Daiji San, Ganko-Ji
Mitake no Kani Yakushi 御嵩の蟹薬師
岐阜県南部，可児（かに）the district of Kani in Gifu
岐阜県可児郡御嵩町御嵩１３７７－１ / Mitake town

Situated on the Western Side of 御嶽宿 Mitake-Juku of the old 中山道 Nakasendo road.
The temple was first built in 713.
In 815, 伝教大師（最澄） Dengyo Daishi Saicho dedicated the statue of Yakushi.
It is also closely related to the emperor Ichijoo Tennoo 一条天皇 Ichijo Tanno, when the annual festival 蟹薬師祭礼 started
The temple was lost to fire many times in its history, but usually rebuilt in greater splendor.
A special hall for the Yakushi Statue, 薬師如来の厨子堂, was built in 1610.





- source : gankoji.sakura.ne.jp - [


The crest of the temple 願興寺の紋章
kani botan 蟹牡丹 crab and peony



. kamon 家紋 family crest - Introduction .


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The foundation of Gankoji Temple
At the age of 36, Saicho visited China with Kukai (referred to as Kobo-taishi) as a member of Kentoshi (a mission represening Japan to China). On his return from China, he founded Enryakuji Temple (the headquarters of Tendai-shu, a faction of Buddhism) at Hieizan in north-eastern part of Kyoto. In order to carry out the Tendai-shu’s tenet “relieve all the people”, Saicho travelled all around Japan and finally reached Mitake via Tosando (an old passway connecting northern Japan and Kyoto). At that time the area surrounding Mitake was suffering from epidemic, so he built a fuseya, leaving a hand-made sculpture of Yakushi-Nyorai and said his prayer for the residents’ recovery.

Building of Shichido-Garan
There was a very clever girl who was a daughter of Emperor Ichijyo. She boasted about her own ability but the Emperor was uncomfortable with her attitude and drove her out of Kyoto. She started travelling along the Tosando , but during her trip she became exhausted and much thinner than before. It was already winter when she arrived in Nakamura village (currently called Naka district in Mitake-cho) in her ragged clothes. She built an hermitage with the help of neighbors in the village and began to live there. She shaved her hair and became a nun named Gyouchini, praying for Yakushi-Nyorai every day.
At that time, a line of light began to appear every night from a pond at the foot from the mountain in the south of the village. Fierce wind blew, waves in the pond and a roar of mountain went accompanied the light. Gyouchi went close to the bank of the pond in the evening and found the pond had flooded and the entire village was under water with people almost drowned. Gyouchi counted her beads and kept praying, gazing the pond. Then an enormous 30-meter-long, big snake suddenly appeared and tried to swallow her.
Despite the snake’s appearance, Gyouchi just kept praying for Yakushi Nyorai without any fear. After a while the wind and wave stopped, and a small 6-centimeters-long image of Buddha surrounded by small crabs appeared in front of her. Inspired by this development, Gyouchi said her prayer for the image and enshrined it in her hermitage. On hearing the whole story, the Emperor Ichijyo issued a permission to build a sanctum there. This led to the establishment of a magnificent Shichido-Garan style temple in 998 named “Oterasan-Gankoji”.

Gankoji, burnt down twice by wars
Gankoji was burnt down in 1108 (the first year of Tenjin Era) during a rebellion led by Yoshitsugu Minamoto. At that time the image of Yakushi-Nyorai was moved to and enshrined at a shrine in Tsushima, Aichi Prefecture. After a while, the Yakushi-Do (a hall to enshrine Yakushi-Nyorai) was rebuilt in the premises of Gankoji. 100 years later, Koketsu Gengo Yasumori (in his capacity as Jito, an administrator of the Mitake area from the central government) re-constructed the rest of Gankoji. In 1572, in the midst of the battle between Takeda and Oda, a servant of Shingen Takeda set fire to Gankoji and burnt it down. As valuable images of Buddha and scriptures were kept ivied Gankoji, a number of monks of Gukeiji temple rushed into Gankoji and carried them out of the temple. Thanks to their work, all the images and 600 sets of scriptures remained intact. The images were kept in a temporary hall in the premises of Gukeiji for a while.

Building of the present hall
Shingen Takeda, an enthusiastic believer of Tendai-shu, expressed his strong anger with his staff for setting fire to the Gankoji. It is believed that he gave residents in Mitake area his promise to rebuild the temple. However, Shingen died before undertaking the restoration. 10 years later, led by Yojiro Tamaki, residents in the area began to rebuild Gankoji by themselves. Not only did they collect a fund from neighboring temples and shrines, but also brought wooden boards and pillars voluntarily. The restoration was completed in 1582 (the 9th year of Tensho Era).
One feature of the present hall is its wide corridors. This shows the residents’ thoughtful consideration in order for travelers to avoid rain during the night. The other is that the humble style of the back of the hall compared to the front. It shows that the residents tried hard to rebuild the hall within their financial constraints.
In the concert on the 23rd November 2006 held during the event “Nakasendo Walk”, Mr. Bincho Tanaka, a teacher of Gagaku both in Japan and all over the world played a whistle. In the concert which took place at Gankoji, some attendees would have felt eternal history as in the air the Emperor Ichijyo was known as an expert of whistle.
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. Dengyo Daishi Saicho 伝教大師最澄 .
(766 - 822)

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The origin of the Gankoji Festival 蟹薬師祭礼
The Gankoji Festival is originated in 999 (the 5th year of Chotoku Era), when the Shichido-Garan style temple was completed. Since then, ceremonies such as Daiji-Hyoshi, Shishi-mai and Hae-oi have been held part of the festival. Among them, Hae-oi was an important ceremony to drive off something unclean, given that could an epidemic, which was a matter of life and death at that time.
It is believed that the mask used in the Hae-oi ceremony was created by Gyouchi. There were two types of heads of Shishi (an item used in Shishi-mai lion-head ceremony), one was male and the other was female. When the male one was used, clothes and a mask for a male were used in the Hae-oi ceremony and vice versa.

願興寺月例祭事　- every month
８日　薬師縁日　　（焚き上げ・法話）
１８日　観音縁日　　（説法）
２４日　地蔵縁日　　（水子供養）
２８日　不動明王縁日（安全祈願）

願興寺年間祭事と行事
４月第１日　　蟹薬師祭礼 The main Festival in April
８月第１土曜　竹筒の燈明
大晦日　　　　竹筒の燈明

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STATUE OF KANI YAKUSHI
Daianji, Nara City, Japan



This statue was dedicated to the temple by a medical doctor to pray for confining cancer. Both words of KANI in Japanese and cancer in astronomy in English share a common meaning, that is, crab. In view of such a relationship, the doctor wanted to have this statue created for dedication.
- source : nara-heritage-online.naist.jp

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One of the three great Yakushi temples of Japan 日本三薬師:

. Hooraiji 鳳来寺 Horai-Ji Yakushi, Mikawa, Aichi .

. Kani Yakushi 蟹薬師 "Crab Yakushi" at 願興寺 Ganko-Ji . - Gifu

. Yamanaka Yakushi 山中薬師 - 瑠璃山医王寺　Rurisan Io-Ji . - Gifu

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Yakushi Kokeshi

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kokeshi and Yakushi こけしと薬師如来

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Yakushi Kokeshi Doo 薬師こけし堂 Yakushi Kokeshi-Do
Tsuchiyu onsen hot spring in Fukushima

Yakushi as the Buddha of Medicine has a long relationship with hot springs.
In Tohoku he is 薬師瑠璃子如来 Yakushi Ruriko Nyorai and also related to the making of kokeshi wooden dolls.

The beginning dates back to the son of Emperor Montoku (827 - 858),
called 惟喬親王 Koretaka Shinno (844 - 897), the founder of woodcraft.
惟喬親王（文徳天皇の第一皇子）



The first Yakushi Hall had been built in 湯元下ノ町, but was swept away in 1913 during a flooding. The statue of Yakushi Nyorai had survived at the temple 興徳寺 Kotoku-Ji.
Later in 1974 the Yakushi Kokeshi Do hall was constructed.

Every year on the 8th day of April
there is the main festival of this Kokeshi Hall, where water from the Hot Spring is offered.
Every year on the third Sunday in April
there is a special memorial service for kokeshi dolls こけし供養祭 (kokeshi kuyo) and also for used writing brushes 筆供養.



- source : kitemite.me/tsuchiyu


kokeshi kuyoo こけし供養 memorial service for used kokeshi
and
Tsuchiyu Kokeshi Matsuri　土湯こけし祭り

This is a service for old dolls, including kokeshi, to say "Thank you for your long service!"



First the Kokeshi are consecrated in front of the temple hall.
They are burned in a huge fire while the priest chants sutras.



- source : and more photos 福島県福島市 土湯温泉


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Bustle of Tsuchiyu-Onsen Hot Spring
Kokeshi-Do Shrine
Kokeshi-Do Shrine is further up the stone steps from Taishi-Do Shrine. Tsuchiyu is one of three major production sites of Kokeshi-Dolls in Japan. This shrine is dedicated to Koretaka Shinno who is said to be the father of woodcraft, Yakushi Nyorai, a Buddhist deity who is able to cure all illnesses, and Tsuchiyu Kokeshi Dolls.

Taishi-Do Shrine
Taishi-Do Shrine, which is dedicated to Prince Shotoku, stands on a hill looking down the tourist section of Tsuchiyu-Onsen. Follow the gentle sloping stone steps and feel your spirit soothed in a unique Japanese environment with venerable buildings, moss-covered stone pavements, and stone lanterns surrounded by trees.

Eight Views of Tsuchiyu-Onsen Hot Spring
In the age of Bunka-Bunsei in Edo era, Tsuchiyu was known as a place for Haikai (amusing and playful Japanese poems) and produced many haiku poets. The group of haiku poets was called "Tsuchiyu-ren" and they composed many poems.
"Eight Views of Hot Spring" is a collection of poems composed by "Hatomaro", a member of the "Tsuchiyu-ren" group. Visit and enjoy the unchanged beauty of Tsuchiyu-Onsen that has appeared in the "Eight Views of Tsuchiyu-Onsen Hot Spring" poems.
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こけし神社 Kokeshi Shrine
小野宮惟喬親王神社 Onomiya Koretaka Shinno Shrine
in Fukuoka Yatumiya, Shiroishi-shi - Miyagi
宮城県白石市の弥治郎こけしの産地

New Year's First Making of Yajiro Kokeshi Wooden Dolls
January 2
This New Year's event has a strong association with traditional Kokeshi-doll craftsmen of the Yajiro style. With a prayer, kokeshi dolls fashioned by a selected craftsman are offered to the shrine.

- source : pref.miyagi.jp/kankou



Photos from the shrine and kokeshi
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Introducing over 100 forms of Kannon in Japan.
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Ayumi Kannon あゆみ観音 "Kannon for going step by step”
for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, 2011.


Bando 坂東三十三観音 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples in Kanto .

Batoo Kannon, Horseheaded Kannon 馬頭観音

Byakue Kannon 白衣観音 with White Robes


Daruma Kannon ... だるま観音

dorei 観音像土鈴 clay bell with Kannon Bosatsu

Edo - 江戸三十三観音霊場 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples

Enkiri Kannon 縁切り観音 to cut a bond


Fukutoku Kannon 福徳観音 - 福泉寺 Fukusen-Ji, Tono, Iwate
The biggest wooden Kannon statue in Japan !

Funanori Kannon 救世舟乗観音 Kannon riding a boat


Gankake Kannon Bosatsu 願掛け観音 to make a wish

Empress Gensho Tenno 元正天皇 and Kannon Statues in her memory

Guze Kannon 救世観音 / 求世観音 Temple Horyu-Ji 法隆寺, Yumedono 夢殿, Nara

Gyoran Kannon 魚籃観世音菩薩 with a fish basket .
and Iruka kuyo Kanzeon 海豚供養救世観音 Kannon holding a dolphin


Hakodate 33 Kannon Pilgrimage 西国移土三十三観音, 函館市湯川寺

Hatakiri Kannon はたきり観音さん Shikoku Henro 10

Hitokoto Kannon 一言観音 One-Prayer Kannon

Hokuriku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage　北陸三十三ヵ所観音霊場巡り .

Hyaku Kannon Meijidera 百観音明治寺 . - Tokyo


Ichigan Kannon 一願観音 ... One Wish Kannon

. Ise Saigoku 33 Kannon 伊勢西国三十三所観音巡礼 Pilgrimage .

Irezumi 刺青 tatoo with Kannon and Dragon King

Iwa Kannon 岩観音 Rock Kannon / 栃木県那須町芦野
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Iwakura Kannon Holy Water 岩倉大雲寺 観音水 Temple Daiun-Ji


Joogyoo Bosatsu, Jōgyō 浄行菩薩 Jogyo Bosatsu of Purity

Jundei Kannon, Juntei Kannon 准胝 観音 Mother of all Buddhas, 准胝仏母

. Juuichimen 十一面観音 Juichimen Kannon with 11 faces .

. Juuichimen 十一面大士 Juichimen Daiji / Daishi Kannon Bosatsu .


Kamakura - Kannon Pilgrimage

. Kannonji 観音寺 Kannon-Ji temples in Japan .

. Kanto 33 Kannon Pilgrimage 関東三十三観音霊場 .

Kitamuki Kannon 北向き観音 / 北向観音 Kannon facing North

. kookaishin 航海神 Kokaishin Deities of Fishermen .
Horyoshin 豊漁神 Deities for a good catch, including 十一面観音像 Kannon Bosatsu with 11 faces

Kosodate Kannon 子育観音 to protect children

. 巨勢金岡 Kose no Kanaoka - painter . - first Kannon Painting

. Koyasu Kannon　子安観音 Protector or Children.

Kudara Kannon 百済観音 Temple Horyu-Ji Nara 法隆寺

. kujira Kannon 鯨観音 Kannon on a whale - Ise 正福寺 Shofuku-Ji .


. Mama Kannon 間々観音 龍音寺 Ryuon-Ji, Aichi .
お乳のお寺 O-Chichi no O-Tera // おっぱい寺 Oppai Tera, Oppai-dera
- Breast-feeding Kannon

Matsukura Kannon 松倉観音 Hida, Takayama, Gifu


. Medama-no-Kannon 目玉の観音 Eyeball Kannon .

Me no Hotoke, Kannon for your Eyes Nara, Tsubosakadera 壷阪寺（南法華寺)

. menoo Kannon めのう観音 /　瑪瑙観音　Meno Kannon made of Agate stone .

Michibiki Kannon 導き観音 "Guiding Kannon" at temple Taimadera 当麻寺 / 當麻寺, Nara

. Mikata 大悲山三方石観音 Saihizan Mikata Ishi Kannon - Stone Kannon .
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Mushifuuji Kanzeon 虫封観世音 Mushifuji "Kannon to ward off "insects"


Nago Kannon 那古観音 temple Nagodera 那古寺, Tateyama, Chiba

. Nedoshi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage 小机領三十三所子歳観音霊場 Kozukue .

. nishimuki Kannon. Nishi-Muki 西向聖観世音菩薩 Kannon facing West .

Nyoirin Kannon, Wishfulfilling Kannon- 如意輪観音
..... Seiryuu Gongen, Dragon Deity Zennyo 清瀧権現


Ofusa Kannon おふさ観音 - Ofsacho town, Kashihara, Nara
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Ogawadera 小川寺 Kannon Legend - Toyama .

O-Shichi Kannon お七観音 at temple Tanjo-Ji in Okayama 誕生時

Owari shi Kannon 尾張四観音
The Four Kannon Temples of Owari Nagoya
Owari Thirty-three Kannon Pilgrimage
(尾張三十三観音 Owari Sanjuusan Kannon)


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33 Kannon Temples of Saigoku (Kansai area) 西国三十三観音霊場 or Saigoku Junrei 西国巡礼.
33 Kannon Temples of Bandō (Kanto area) 坂東三十三観音霊場
34 Kannon Temples of Chichibu (Valley in Saitama) 秩父三十四観音霊場
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. Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage 西国三十三観音霊場 (Saikoku) .

. Hyakkannon Joju-In 百観音成就院 100 Kannon statues at Temple Joju-In .
Kanto. Named after the three pilgrimages to Saigoku, Bando and Chichibu.


- PINTEREST - Kannon images -

pokkuri Kannon ぽっくり観音 / ポックリ観音 - or
pokkuri, korori Kannon ころり観音　/ コロリ観音　Kannon Bosatsu granting a sudden death


roku Kannon 六観音 six Kannon .
１．聖観音・餓鬼道　- Sho Kannon - Gakido
２．千手観音・地獄道 - Thousand-Armed Kannon - Jigokudo
３．馬頭観音・畜生道 - Horse-Headed Kannon - Chikushodo
４．十一面観音・修羅道 - Eleven-Headed Kannon - Shurado
５．不空羂索観音・人間道 - Fuku-Kenjaku Kannon - Ningendo
６．如意輪観音・天界道 - Nyoirin Kannon - Tenkaido, Tendo

rokumen Kannon 六面観音 Kannon with six faces .
carved by Enku 円空

Ryuu-oo Kanzeon Bosatsu 竜王観世音菩薩 Ryu-O
with the Dragon King

ryuutoo Kannon 龍灯観音 with a "Dragon Light" . - Miyagi, Ishinomaki


Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage

Sake 酒, Kannon and Yokai monster legends .

Sasano Kannon 笹野観音 Yonezawa, Yamagata

Sendai 仙台三十三観音 - Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples
- reference source : miyagitabi.com/link..33kannon... -
- source : ja.japantravel.com/miyagi/33-kannon-temple -

Senju Kannon, with 1000 Arms and Juuichimen Kannon with 11 heads
千手観音, 十一面観音 Juichimen Kannon

Shichimen Kannon 七面観音 Nichiren and Mount Minobu

Shiohi Kannon 潮干観音 "Kannon of the Ebb Tide" 　－海繁寺 Kaihan-Ji Tokyo

Shoo Kannon, Shō Kannon 聖観音 / 正観音 Sho Kannon

Shoonai 33 Kannon Reijo 庄内三十三観音霊場 Pilgirmage in Shonai, Yamagata

. Suigetsu Kannon 水月観音 "Water Moon Kannon" .


. Taihei Kannon for Peace 泰平 正観世音菩薩 .

. Tokyo Kannon Reijo 東京三十三観音霊場 Pilgrimage .

Tono Shichi Kannon 遠野 七観音 Seven Kannon of Tono - pilgrimage .

Usuzumi Kannon, Light Charcoal Cherry Tree Kannon 薄墨観音


. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来　and Kannon 長野 .

Yookihi Kannon 楊貴妃観音 Yokihi Kannon
Sennyuuji 泉涌寺 Sennyu-Ji, Kyoto. like the Chinese Princes Yang Gui Fei


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dorei どれい　土鈴観音 clay bells with Kannon
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hariko Kannon 張子観音 papermachee dolls of Kannon
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manga mukashibanashi　マンガ昔話データベース Legends about Kannon
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Pilgrimage to Kannon Temples
From Hokkaido to Okinawa
- source : nippon-reijo.jimdo.com -

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. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 - Introduction .


. O-Mamori お守り　Amulets and Talismans .

. Japan - Shrines and Temples - ABC .


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