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2015/12/12

Yamanaka Yakushi Gifu

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

岐阜県中津川市落合山中 1423-2 / Gifu, Nakatsu, Ochiai, Yamanaka



It is also known as
mushifuuji no Yakushi 虫封じの薬師 "Yakushi warding off the three worms".

The old buildings were lost in fire and it was reconstructed by the Jodo sect in 1544.

Visitors and pilgrims come from all parts of Japan.
The main statue of Yakushi was carved by 行基 Gyoki.

It is also known for its medicine to heal wounds, the 狐膏薬 Fox Medicine.

The main lodging of Ochiai village is run by the 本陣井口家 Iguchi family.
It is said a traveller was told the secret of the medicine by the deity 秋葉大明神 Akiba Daimyojin.



. mushifuuji 虫封じ amulets to ward off the "Three Worms" .

. Akiba Gongen 秋葉権現 the Akiba Deity .


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There is also a memorial stone with a haiku by Matsuo Basho in the back garden:

ume ga ka ni notto hi no deru yamaji kana
. 梅が香にのっと日の出る山路かな .

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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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中津川 Nakatsugawa was a postal station along the 中山道 Nakasendo Road. On the road toward Magome was the next station, the small hamlet of 落合 Ochiai.

山中薬師の狐膏薬伝説 Yamanaka Yakushi and the legend of the Fox Medicine

ズイトンさんの狐膏薬 The legend of Zuiton san and the Fox Medicine

Once upon a time
there lived an old monk at the temple, called ズイトンさん Zuiton san.
Once he was working in the garden when a fox appeared who looked rather painful. When he picked him up, he saw a large thorn in the leg of the fox. Zuiton san pulled it out and the fox suddenly seemed to smile at Zuiton san. Then he walked back into the mountain forest.



A few evenings later
he heard a sound at the entrance door and when he opened he saw the fox. The fox wanted to show his gratitude by teaching Zuiton san how to make good medicine cream.

まず、マムシグサの根っこのまあるい奴をすり潰す。そこへオオバコの種とキツネノマゴの葉をすり潰して混ぜる。次はモーチを入れて良く練り合わせる。それと油を布切れに塗り付けて、痛いところに張れば、たちどころに痛みが取れます.

(Other versions talk about the fox appearing in the dream of Zuiton san, teaching him.)
Zuiton san made the cream as told and put some on his back, which always hurt him. And in no time his pain was healed. Zuiton san was overjoyed.

He put up a sign 御夢想狐こうやく (Fox Medicine given in a Dream) and began to sell it. The villagers came and soon buyers from other parts of Japan showed up in a never-ending row.



In a similar legend, a fox in the disguise of a running messenger 飛脚 taught how to make the medicine, then called
Tokusan no kitsune kooyaku 徳さんの狐膏薬


source and more photos : saikoro0438/nakasendo

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. kitsune densetsu 狐 伝説 fox legends .
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Ochiai-juku (落合宿 Ochiai-juku) was the forty-fourth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō.



It is located in the present-day city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The honjin and the sub-honjin, as well as some old street lights, remain from the Edo period. The Honjin were the main rest areas in old post towns and very few remain today.
There are ten hills that must be traversed to get to Ochiai-juku from the preceding post town of Magome-juku.
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. Nakasendō 中山道 The Nakasendo Road .

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2015/06/10

Four Word Zen Teachings

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Four-word Zen Teachings 四字禅語 yoji zengo

. Koan and Haiku 公案と俳句 .
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四字禅語集 100 Zen Teachings in Four Words

shooken 正見(しょうけん)
shooyui 正思惟(しょうしゆい) 
shoogo 正語(しょうご)
shoogoo 正業(しょうごう)
shoomyoo 正命(しょうみょう)
shooshoojin 正精進(しょうしょうじん)
shoonen 正念(しょうねん)
shoojoo 正定(しょうじょう)

- - - - -  extensive resource in Japanese
- source : 四字禅語集


Japanese-English Glossary of Zen Terms
Compiled by Gábor Terebess
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A55
泥多佛大(どろおおければほとけだいなり)
doro ookereba hotoke dai nari

時々、不思議な意味を持つ言葉に出遭う。この「泥多ければ佛大なり」もその分野に入る言葉である。泥とは煩悩であり、煩悩が多ければそれだけ悟りも大きいと言っている。私達は佛になるのには、煩悩という迷いを持っていてはいけないと理解している。この理解を土台ごとひっくりかえしてしまう言葉である。佛教では、迷いが多いということは、それだけ努力しているのだと考える。自分の欠点に気づくということは、それを直したい自分があるということである。迷いや煩悩がないということは、自分に対しての反省もないのである。私達は物事に失敗したときは、何故失敗したのだろうかと、反省をする。そして「不運」とか「幸運」という言葉にいき当たる。私が失敗したのは不運だった。彼が成功したのは幸運だったという言葉である。しかし、待ってください。
「不運だ」「不幸だ」と嘆いても、人間の都合で勝手に善いものと悪いものに振り分けているのだ。自分を中心とした身勝手な嘆きといえる。結局、「不運」「不幸」も私達自身の心が作り出した「幻影」に過ぎないのである。自分で作り出した「幻影」に腹を立て、イライラしているようである。幻影に惑わされない方法如何なるものかと、考えを進めなければならない。一言で言うと「感謝」という言葉に代表される。血気盛んな青春時代は、自分を中心に世の中が回っていると思っている。社会へ出て、一つ一つ壁にぶち当たり、、挫折しなければ、本当の意味の感謝は理解出来ないであろう。皆のおかげで自分が存在していること、目に見えない「ご縁」に対しても感謝が出来る心を持ちたいものである。

doro ookereba hotoke dai nari
mizu maseba fune takashi

Much mud will make a larger Buddha
with much water your boat will ride high.

The One Taste of Truth: Zen and the Art of Drinking Tea
By William Scott Wilson
Mud and water here symbolize adversity. The more clay or mud, the bigger and more impressive the Buddhist statue will be; as water increases, your boat will ride high above the river bottom. Thus, the more your confusion, the more your despair (if you continue and work hard), the deeper your enlightenment, the more exquisite your skills will be.
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身心脱落とは坐禅なり
Dropping off body and mind is zazen.



Skeleton Performing Zazen on Waves, Maruyama Okyo
(Daijoji Temple, Hyogo, Japan)

Ōkyo’s “Skeleton”, Not Performing Zazen;
Reflections on the Iconography of the Daijōji’s kyakuden
Beatrice Shoemaker
Ōkyo's "Skeleton" may have been the first anatomically accurate skeleton depicted in a lotus position, but skeletons had a long and bifurcated history in Japanese iconology. Ōkyo's innovative depiction rested on shasei, the realism he adopted from rangaku, Western studies [...]. Until the first officially authorised dissection of a human corpse, performed in Kyoto in 1754 by the physician Yamawaki Tōyō, published as the  Zōshi 蔵志 Anatomical Record in 1759, knowledge of human anatomy had rested exclusively on Chinese medical treatises. [...]
The visual dissonance between the naturalistic skeleton and the traditional, Song inspired waves would have shocked the non-metropolitan viewer, who might not have easy access to Sugita Denpaku's Kaitai Shinsho [another rangaku anatomical work]. Ōkyo effectively uses the latest scientific findings to represent what is left once all that is transient, from human passions to the various processes of aging, disease and decay, have been stripped away.
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2015/05/20

Yakushi Legends Tokyo

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru
Legends from Tokyo / Edo  東京 - 江戸と薬師さん 

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Tako Yakushi 蛸薬師 Octopus Yakushi  

Spelled 多幸薬師 TA KO Yakushi for a lot of happiness and good luck.

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. Kinegawa Yakushi 木下川薬師 Yakushi from Kinegawa .
- Kigegawa Yakushi Engi - misspelling of Kinegawa

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三宅島 三宅村 Mitake Island

Yakushi Sama no kara neko 薬師様のカラ猫

When a child cries and mother does not know what to do about it, she tells it
"Here comes the karaneko cat of Yakushi Sama!".
、薬師様のカラ猫だぞ

karaneko 唐猫 ?

. Neko Yakushi 猫薬師 Yakushi Nyorai and the Cat .


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. Tako Yakushi 目黒の蛸薬師 Octopus Yakushi in Meguro, Edo .
多幸薬師 TA KO Yakushi for a lot of happiness and good luck

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- - - - - and one more Tako Yakushi in Kyoto

Tako Yakushidō (Octopus Yakushi Hall), Eifukuji Temple 永福寺 (lit. = Temple of Eternal Fortune), Kyoto
浄瑠璃山林秀院永福寺 - 京都市中京区新京極蛸薬師東側町503


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The temple originally stood in Nijo Muromachi and was founded in 1181. The engi, retold in the temple's pamphlet, informs believers about the miraculous origins of the temple.



In the Muromachi ward of Kyoto lived a rich man who shaved his head and sought his refuge in the Yakushi Buddha of Enryakuji on Mt Hiei 比叡山. Year after year, he made monthly pilgrimages to this Buddha. But as the years went by, he became old and weak, and one day, he spoke in front of the Yakushi Buddha:

"I am getting too old to continue my practice of monthly pilgrimages. Please let me have your image to place in my home, Lord Yakushi!"

After uttering this wish, the devout believer descended from Mt Hiei. That night, the Yakushi Buddha appeared to him in a dream and spoke: "In a certain place, a stone Yakushi statue carved by St Dengyo 伝教大師 [i.e. Saicho 最澄, the founder of Enryakuji and Tendai Buddhism] himself has been buried. You can take that home."

Full of joy, the next day the wealthy man climbed the mountain and when he dug in the indicated spot he indeed found a holy image hewn from stone that emitted a wondrous light.

He took this image home and built a hall of six by four bays for it. This temple was called Eifukuji, or Temple of Eternal Bliss, and it greatly flourished and young and old, men and women, flocked in great numbers to the temple to pay their respects.

In the Kencho period (1249-56) of Emperor Gofukakusa 後深草天皇 (1243 - 1304) there lived a monk called Zenko 善光 in this temple. It happened at one time that his mother fell ill. Although he took good care of her, she did not recover and spoke from her bed to Zenko: "If only I could eat some octopus (tako タコ), I like that so much from since I was young, that my illness might get better!"

Zenko was not allowed to buy octopus, a living being, for a meal because he was a Buddhist monk and therefore he was greatly distressed. Still, the thought of his sick mother was stronger than his awe for the precepts, so he took a wooden box in his arms and went to the market to find an octopus.

When he walked back, some people became suspicious that he, a monk, had bought a living creature for food and they followed him all the way to the gate of his temple, pressing him to show what was in the box. Zenko could not refuse and prayed with all his heart to the Lord Buddha: "I have only bought this octopus to help my mother recover from her illness. Lord Yakushi, please help me out of this difficulty!"

When he opened the box, the eight-legged octopus had been transformed into a set of eight sutra scrolls お経の巻物 and a light shone from them in all four directions.



The people who saw this all pressed their hands together in prayer and sang the praises of the Lord Yakushi, the Buddha of the Lapis Lazuli Paradise.

Strangely enough, the scriptures turned again into an octopus who then jumped into the pond in front of the temple where he changed into the form of the Yakushi Buddha. He emitted a green Lapis Lazuli light and when this struck the head of Zenko's mother her illness was immediately healed. She rose from her bed and in a loud voice sang the praises of the Lapis Lazuli Buddha, over and over again.

Thus the temple came to be known as Octopus Yakushi. From then on, when people visited and prayed for relief from illness, they immediately were healed; when women prayed for children, they were blessed with offspring; and all difficulties and problems were eliminated.

This reached the ears of His Majesty the Emperor and in 1441 the temple received an Imperial License. Since then prayers have been said here for bountiful harvests, the Emperor's long life, and the peace of the nation. When one prays ardently for divine protection, no wish is left unfulfilled: in the present world the seven ills are immediately dispelled and the seven blessings immediately granted.
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To our day, the octopus is featured at the temple at the Yakushi Hall 蛸薬師堂
to rub for healing.



nade Yakushi なで薬師 Yakishi to be rubbed

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ema 絵馬 votive tablets
ema 絵馬 votive tablets
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oboosan to tako お坊さんとタコ The priest and the octopus

Once upon a time
a priest on a trip was walking along the beach, when suddenly a large octopus came out of the waves and pleaded "Please let me be your student"!
So the priest took the octopus out of the water and carried it with him on his trip.

By nightfall the priest had completely lost his way. To ask for a shelter he knocked at a farmhouse. The owner was a man with bitter face, but when he realized the priest was carrying a delicious-looking octopus, he let them in.

While the priest was chanting the sutras for Yakushi Nyorai, the farmer prepared a very hot bath and tried to throw the octopus in it. Just at that time the priest interrupted his chanting with a loud shout of "Pay Attention"「喝!」 KATSU! and the clever octopus made his escape from the hot bath, while the farmer looked quite perplexed.
Next morning the priest and his octopus companion continued their trip safely.

The farmer, who had not gotten his delicious boiled octopus last night, was mubemling to himself and then tried to get into the hot bath himself. Just then - out of the bathtub came the large legs of an octopus and tired to suck at the body of the farmer.
This octopus was in fact Yakushi Nyorai, to whom the priest had prayed the night before.
Yakushi San begun to suck out all the bad intentions of the man's heart and attitude.



The farmer became quite a gentle caring man, after Yakushi san had sucked out his all maliciuos intentions.
And the trip of the priest and his octopus companion continued.



source : hinoki-diary.blogspot.jp

delicious Tako wafers with sweet filling 明石銘菓:たこ最中


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kuruma kaeshi no O-Yakushi san 車返のお薬師さん Yakushi who brought the car to a stop

In the time of the Kamakura Shogunate 鎌倉幕府 (1192 - 1333) they were transporting the statue of Yakushi Nyorai お薬師さん from 奥州平泉 Hiraizumi far away in Tohoku to Kamakura.
On their way, when they passes Shiraito 白糸の地, the cart suddenly became very heavy and did not move any more.
So the drivers decided to leave the statue here and built a small Hall for it.
They say that Yakushi had choosen this region of Shiraito for his stay.


- still trying to locate the Shiraito 白糸 -

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Repairing a Yakushi statue from the Edo period



薬師如来立像(江戸時代)の現状・保存修復
http://buddha-statue.at.webry.info/200901/article_1.html


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Monsters, legends and Yakushi 妖怪データベース
- source : nichibun yokai database

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2015/04/03

Yakushipedia - ABC Index

[ . Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 Bhaisajyaguru . ]
. Yakushi Nyorai Legends 薬師如来 .
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Yakushipedia ABC-Index 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai Bhaisajyaguru
the Buddha of Medicine and Healing



- source : Shin Yakushi-Ji 新薬師寺


- - - - - My friend Mark Schumacher has all the details.
Yakushi Nyorai - YAKUSHI TATHĀGATA
Yakushi’s full name is Yakushi-rurikō 薬師瑠璃光,
Lord of the Eastern Paradise of Pure Lapis Lazuli
Medicine Master of Lapis Lazuli Radiance.
Introducing the features of Yakushi Nyorai, the important statues and temples.


Medicine Master Buddha:
The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan


Yui Suzuki
This profusely illustrated volume illuminates the primacy of icons in disseminating the worship of the Medicine Master Buddha (J: Yakushi Nyorai) in Japan. Suzuki’s meticulous study explicates how the devotional cult of Yakushi, one of the earliest Buddhist cults imported to Japan from the continent, interacted and blended with local beliefs, religious dispositions, and ritual practices over the centuries, developing its own distinctive imprint on Japanese soil. Worship of the Medicine Master Buddha became most influential during the Heian period (794–1185), when Yakushi’s popularity spread to different levels of society and locales outside the capital. The large number of Heian-period Yakushi statues found all across Japan demonstrates that Yakushi worship was an integral component of Heian religious practice.

Medicine Master Buddha focuses on the ninth-century Tendai master Saichō (767–822) and his personal reverence for a standing Yakushi icon. The author proposes that, after Saichō’s death, the Tendai school played a critical role in popularizing the cult of this particular icon as a way of memorializing its founding master and strengthening its position as a major school of Japanese Buddhism. This publication offers a fresh perspective on sculptural representations of the Medicine Master Buddha (including the famous Jingoji Yakushi), and in so doing, reconsiders Yakushi worship as foundational to Heian religious and artistic culture.
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日本三大薬師 / 日本三薬師 the three most famous Yakushi temples in Japan

薬師寺 Nara, 日向薬師 Hinata Yakushi, 会津の勝常寺 Aizu, Shoji-Ji
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Kani Yakushi 蟹薬師 "Crab Yakushi" - Yamanaka Yakushi 山中薬師 - Gifu
and 三河の鳳来寺 Horai-Ji - Mikawa, Aichi

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. Akaidake Yakushi 閼伽井嶽薬師 - 常福寺 Jofuku-Ji, Fukushima

Amulets for Eye Diseases 眼病 Yakushi Nyorai healing - Tokyo

. Ana Yakushi Kofun 穴薬師古墳 .
- Yakushi-ana 薬師穴 Yakushi cave / ana no Yakushi 穴の薬師 Yakushi with holes

. Arai Yakushi Baisho-In 新井薬師 梅照院 .

budoo Yakushi葡萄薬師 Budo Yakushi, Grapes Yakushi- Yamanashi

. bokeyoke Yakushi ぼけ除け薬師 to prevent dementia .

Daigiji 大義寺 Daigi-Ji / Taigi-Ji - Tama Henro pilgrimage

. Enku 円空 Yakushi Sanzon 薬師三尊 .

Fudo - Yakushi Nyorai and Fudo Myo-O legends 薬師と不動 伝説

Genshō Tennō 元正天皇 Empress Gensho Tenno and Yakushi -(683 – 748)

Gyooki Bosatsu. Gyōki 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu and Yakushi (668-749 AD)


Haiku and kigo 俳句 about Yakushi Nyorai

- - - Heian Period and Yakushi 平安時代と薬師 - (794 - 1192)

. hi mizu no Yakushi 日見ずの薬師 Yakushi not to see the sun .
大鹿村 Oshika village, Nagano

Hinata Yakushi 日向薬師 日向山霊山寺 - Kanagawa

Hizura Yakushidoo 日面薬師堂 Hizura Yakushi Do Hall - Kajiyaba, Fukushima

Hokedake Yakush-ji 法華嶽薬師寺 Hokkedake Yakushi Temple
and the quail car toy (うずら車 uzuraguruma)

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

Hooryuuji - 法隆寺 Yakushi Statue at Temple Horyu-ji


Inaba Yakushi 因幡薬師 - Kyoto
temple 平等寺 Byodo-Ji and
因幡堂縁起絵巻 Inabado engi emaki "picture scroll of legends of the Inabado Hall" .

. Ishiyakushi, Ishi-Yakushi 石薬師 various Rock and Stone Yakushi .
and temple Ishiyakushi-Ji, 石薬師寺 Suzuka, Mie

. Iyo 12 Yakushi Temples, Shikoku 伊予十二薬師霊場 .
01 - Toorinji 東林寺 Torin-Ji / 02 小谷山医座寺 Iza-Ji / 03 室岡山蓮華寺 Renge-Ji / 04 Saihooji 大楽山西法寺 Saiho-Ji / 05 Onoyama Shookannji 小野山正観寺 Shokan-Ji / 06 Kooshakuji 瑠璃山香積寺 Koshaku-Ji / 07 Chooryuuji 興福山長隆寺 Choryu-Ji / 08 - 雲門寺 Unmon-Ji / 09 玉松山金蓮寺 Konren-Ji / 10 Choorakuji 長楽寺 Choraku-Ji / 11 Joomyooin 浄明院 Jomyo-In / 12 瑠璃光山薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji - and
Anyooji 安養寺 Anyo-Ji / Juurinji 十輪寺 Jurin-Ji / Saikooji 西光寺 Saiko-Ji


Jingoji 神護寺 Jingo-Ji, Kyoto, Sanbi 三尾

Jinmu-Ji Temple, Fudo Myo-O and Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来
(Jimmuji 神武寺) in Zushi Town, Kanagawa prefecture

Jooshooji 常性寺 Josho-Ji - Tama Henro pilgrimage

Juusanbutsu 十三仏
Yakushi Nyorai is one of the 13 protector Buddhas


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

Kankaiji 観海寺 - Kankai-Ji - Oita

Katade Yakushi 隻手薬師 "Yakushi with one arm" 瑠璃山香積寺 Koshaku-Ji Ehime

Kawakami Yakushi 川上薬師 - 弥勒寺 Miroku-Ji Tokyo

Kazusa Yakushi Pilgrimage 上総国薬師如来霊場

Kenryusan Daigongen Yakushi剣龍山大権現薬師如来
Mount Kenryu-San, Yamagata

Kinegawa Yakushi 木下川薬師 Yakushi from Kinegawa - Edo
- Kigegawa Yakushi Engi = misspelling of Kinegawa

Kinoshita no Yakushi 木ノ下の薬師 Yakushi from Kinoshita - Miyagi

Kiyotakiji 清瀧寺 / 清滝寺 Kiyotaki-Ji - Kochi

kokeshi wooden dolls and Yakushi こけしと薬師如来

. Koyakushizoo 香薬師像 Koyakushi-Zo Statue, Ko-Yakushi .

Koyasu Yakushi 子安薬師 "to protect children"

. Kyushu Pilgrimage to 49 Yakushi Temples 九州四十九薬師霊場 .


. Legends and Folktales about Yakushi Nyorai .


Mine Yakushidoo 峯薬師堂 in Hiraizumi, Iwate
famous for healing eye disease

migawari Yakushi 身代わり薬師 Yakushi as personal substiture *

. Mokujiki 木喰上人 / 木食 statue carver .


nabe Yakushi 鍋薬師 Yakushi and the cooking pot

nade Yakushi なで薬師 Yakushi to be rubbed

neko Yakushi 猫薬師 Yakushi and the Cat

nezumi Yakushi ねずみ薬師 Yakushi and the mice

nure Yakushi 濡れ薬師 Yakushi who got wet
- - - - - Miyagi - 柴田郡 柴田町 Shibata
- - - - - Gunma 高崎市南八幡 - Takasaki Town


. Oka Yakushi Ruriko Nyorai 岡薬師瑠璃光如来 . - Matsuyama, Ehime - 星岡山

Oni 鬼 demons and Yakushi Nyorai

onsen Yakushi 温泉薬師 hot springs and Yakushi *


. Paradise of Yakushi Nyorai 薬師浄土曼荼羅 Yakushi Jodo Mandala .
薬師瑠璃光浄土 Yakushi Ruriko Jodo / 東方瑠璃光浄土 Toho Ruriko Jodo
Eastern Paradise of Pure Lapis Lazuli 東方浄瑠璃世界 Toho Joruri Sekai

placebo effect プラシーボ効果 and Yakushi Nyorai

pokkuri Yakushi ポックリ薬師 granting a sudden death

Raigo-In 大原来迎院 Ohara, Kyoto

Ruriko - Yakushi Rurikoo Nyorai 薬師瑠璃光如来 Yakushi of Lapis Lazuli Radiance.
- - - - - Ruriji 瑠璃寺 temples names Ruri-Ji
- - - - - Rurikooji 瑠璃光寺 temples names Ruriko-Ji - Rurikō-ji  
- - - - - Rurizan (るりざん) 瑠璃山 Ruriyama

ryuutoo Yakushi 龍灯薬師 Yakushi of the Dragon Lantern . - Matsuyama, Ehime

Saikoku Yakushi Pilgrimages to 49 temples
西国四十九薬師巡礼 / 西国薬師巡礼 Saigoku Yakushi

Sakurado Yakushi 桜堂薬師 / 櫻堂薬師 - Gifu

Senmi Yakushi-Ji 川見薬師寺 (せんみやくしじ)Kawami Yakushi-Ji - Aichi

Shichibutsu Yakushi 七仏薬師 / 七佛薬師 Seven Yakushi statues - Introduction
- from from 丹後 Tango: 七薬師伝説 : one is muchi yakushi 鞭薬師 "whip Yakushi"
麻呂子親王 Prince Maroko Shinno (当麻皇子 Prince Taima no Miko)

Shiga no Yakushi 志賀の薬師 Yakushi from Shiga village - Miyagi

shio Yakushi 塩薬師 "Salt Yakushi"
- shio no Yakushi 塩の薬師 Yakushi and Salt - Miyagi. Yakushi und Salz

Shunkō-ji 春光寺 Shunko-Ji - Kyoto

Shusse Yakushi 出世薬師 for a good career .

sugi Yakushi 杉薬師 Yakushi and the cedar tree - Miyagi

Sukunahikona no mikoto 少彦名命 Sukuna Hikona (Sukuna-Bikona) and Shinno shi 神農氏 .


Taisanji 太山寺 Taisan-Ji - Hyogo

Tako Yakushi 多幸薬師 / 蛸薬師 Yakushi and the Octopus
in Edo, Kyoto . . .

Tanishi Choja and Yakushi たにし長者

tawara Yakushi 俵薬師 Yakushi and a bale of rice

. Tengu Legends with Yakushi  薬師と天狗伝説 .

Tokuitsu (Toku-Ichi) 得一 徳溢 and the Yakushi Temples in the Aizu area.
Aizu Go Yakushi 会津五薬師 Five Yakushi temples
Kukai Kobo Daishi, priest Tokuitsu and the fighting with the Emishi people in the Tohoku region by the imperial government in Kyoto.
. Enichiji 慧日寺 Enichi-Ji .

Tohoku - Three Great Yakushi Statues 東北の三大薬師

Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 and Yakushi Nyorai

. Tookondoo 東金堂 Tokon-Do "Eastern Golden Hall" - Temple Kofuku-Ji . - Nara

tora Yakushi 寅薬師 "Tiger Yakushi"


Yamaya Yakushidoo 山屋薬師堂 Yamaya Yakushi-Do Hall - Aomori

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Yakushi Nyorai - Deutscher Text - German .

- yakko 薬壷 medicine pot .

. Yakushida, Yakushiden 薬師田 "Fields of Yakushi" . - place names

Yakushi Engi 薬師縁起 Old Yakushi Scroll Legends

Yakushiji 薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji - Yakushi Temples *

. Yakushi Jinja 薬師神社 Yakushi Shrines . *

Yakushigama, Yakushi no Kama 薬師窯 Yakushi Kiln - Aichi

. Yakushiishi, Yakushi-Ishi 薬師石 Yakushi Ishi Stone or Rock .

Yakushi Kokeshi Doo 薬師こけし堂 Yakushi Kokeshi-Do
興徳寺 Tsuchiyu Hot Spring 土湯温泉 - Fukushima

Yakushi Okami "薬師大神" Yakushi Daijin

Yakushi Onsen 薬師温泉 Hot Springs named Yakushi
. - - - - - Yakushi no Yu 薬師の湯 .

Yakushi sanzon 薬師三尊 Yakushi Triad, Trias, Trinity .

yakushisoo, yakushi soo 薬師草 "Yakushi plant" - Youngia denticulata

. Yakushi Tooge 薬師峠 Yakushi Toge pass - in Japan .

Yakushi zoo, Yakushi Norai zoo 薬師如来像 Statues of Yakushi Nyorai 

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Yamada Yakushi Nyorai 山田薬師如来
and a manju sweets legend from the shop Yamadaya in Ehime.
- Yamada Yakushi 山田薬師 . - Matsuyama, Ehime - 正観寺 Shokan-Ji

. Yamada Naokimi 山田尚公 - carver . - Okayama

. 山中薬師 Yamanaka Yakushi - 医王寺 Io-Ji . - Gifu, Nakatsugawa
and kitsune kooyaku 狐膏薬 fox medicine

Yooji Yakushi Doo 楊枝薬師堂 The Yakushi Hall of Yoji Village - Mie

Yoshiwara (Shizuoka) 吉原の薬師堂 Yoshiwara no Yakushi-Do .
and Tokugawa Ieyasu

Yakuriki Myojin 薬力明神 a Shinto Kami version

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru

. Yakushi Onsen 薬師温泉 Hot Springs named Yakushi
Yakushi no Yu 薬師の湯 - Yakushi Yu 薬師湯 .



. Legends about Yakushi Nyorai 薬師伝説 .

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Other Place names with Yakushi

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Mountains named Yakushi

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Niigata 新潟県

加茂市,南蒲原郡 Minamikanbara district
Yoneyama Awagatake Awayakushi 米山,粟ケ岳,粟薬師

Once upon the time of the Gods,
the two mountains Yoneyama and Awagatake tried to find out which one could hold more water. In the end the water began to flow towart Awagatake. The female deity called Awa Yakushi took her undergarment (koshimaki腰巻) and tired to stop the flow until both mountains were about the same size.
Some say the name of the mountain is also 薬師岳 Yakushidake.
And at Yoneyama the name of the deity was 恵那薬師 Ena Yakushi, later pronounced Yone.
It is a mountain where Yakushi Nyorai lives 薬師如来の住む山.


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Toyama 富山県

Yakushidake, Yakushi-Dake 薬師岳 Mount Yakushi 
In the Hida Mountain Range. 2,926 meters
With the 薬師岳圏谷(カール)群 at its feet.



There are a few mountains with this same name in the prefectures, but this is the highest peak. It is a sacred mountain symbolizing the Paradise of Yakushi and at its top is a small sanctuary with a statue of Yakushi Nyorai.
There is also a small Fudo Myo-O at his side.

Upstream of the river 和田川 Wadagawa there is a small settlement called 有峰(ありみね) Arimine, said to date back to the times of the Heike 平家落人. They built a small sanctuary on top of the mountain and come here to celebrate every year on the 15th of June.


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Yamagata 山形県

山形県最上郡金山町大字飛森 / Tobinomori, Kaneyama, Mogami District, Yamagata

Yakushisan, Yakushi San 薬師山 Mount Yakushi, Yakushiyama
436.7 m

- Legend
The farmers of Tobinomori village have venerated Yakushi Nyorai since olden times as a deity that wards off insects that destroy the crops 虫除けの神.
When they pray at the shrine on top of the mountain and in the rock cave along the middle of the mountain, there will always be plenty of water and no harm done by insects.
Another legend says that in the rock cave there lives a Tengu 天狗 Mountain Goblin.

Once the nearby mountains quarreled about which was the highest in the area. Finally the Deities got angry about this petty quarrel and grinded off the top of Yakushisan.
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Ibaraki  茨城県

Yakushidai 茨城県守谷市薬師台 Yakushidai, Moriya, Ibaraki

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Ibaraki ? Ishioka 石岡

Yakushi Kodoo
薬師古道 Yakushi Kodo - Old Road of Yakushi

Shobuzawa no Yakushi 菖蒲沢薬師
菖蒲沢の薬師」は、筑波四面薬師の一つで 、その昔は大変にぎわいました。この薬師古道は、水の神様「龍神様」や「天白稲荷神社」などいろいろな地域資源が点在し、地域の歴史や里山の景観を楽しめる森林浴の道です。

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Monsters, legends and Yakushi 妖怪データベース
- source : nichibun yokai database


YAKUSHI NYORAI, YAKUSHI TATHĀGATA Buddha of Medicine and Healing
Yakushi literally means Medicine Teacher
Lord of the Eastern Paradise of Pure Lapis Lazuli
(Jp. = Jōruri 浄瑠璃, Skt. = Vaiduryanirbhasa).
Yakushi’s full name is Yakushi-rurikō 薬師瑠璃光,
meaning Medicine Master of Lapis Lazuli Radiance.
Commonly shown holding medicine jar in left hand.
Among the 88 temples on the well-trodden Shikoku Pilgrimage, 23 are dedicated to Yakushi, second only to the 29 sites dedicated to Kannon (Goddess of Mercy).
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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru

Folktales, legends about Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 / お薬師様 / お薬師さん


- source : Shin Yakushi-Ji 新薬師寺


. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .

. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 place names .
mountains, and more - many come with their own legend


. Yakushi no Yu 薬師の湯 / Yakushiyu 薬師湯 Yakushi Hot Springs .


. Neko Yakushi 猫薬師 Yakushi Nyorai and the Cat .

. Gyoki Bosatsu (Gyooki Bosatsu) 行基菩薩 .
(668-749 AD) Gyōki - he carved many Yakushi statues.


. Fudo Myo-O 薬師と不動伝説 Yakushi Nyorai and Fudo Myo-O Legends .

. Tengu 薬師と天狗伝説 Yakushi Nyorai and Tengu Legends .


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. Yakushi Legends from Tohoku 東北 .

Akita 秋田県 - - Aomori 青森県 -- Fukushima 福島県 --
Iwate 岩手県 -- Miyagi 宮城県 -- Yamagata 山形県

. Yakushi Nyorai and hakuroku 白鹿 the white deer, white stag .

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. Legends from Aichi 愛知県 .

. Legends from Chiba 千葉県 and Ehime 愛媛県 .

. Legends from Fukui 福井県 .

. Gifu 岐阜県 / Gunma 群馬県 / Hiroshima 広島県 / Hyogo 兵庫県 .

. Ibaraki 茨城県 and Ishikawa 石川県 .

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. Kagawa 香川県 / Kanagawa 神奈川県 / Kochi 高知県 .

. Kyoto 京都 .

. Mie 三重県 and Miyazaki 宮崎県 .


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. Nagano 長野県 .
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. Nara 奈良県 and Niigata 新潟県 .

. Okayama 岡山県 .

. Osaka 大阪, Saitama 埼玉県 and Shiga 滋賀県 .

. Shimane 島根県 .

. Shizuoka 静岡県 .

. Tochigi 栃木県, Tokushima 徳島県 and Tottori 鳥取県 .

. Tokyo 東京 - Edo 江戸 .


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. Toyama 富山県 .

. Wakayama 和歌山県 .

. Yamaguchi 山口県 and Yamanashi 山梨県 .


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主人も猫も鶏も同じ年
...」とこれも感謝するのでした。こうして庄屋様に大事にされて、鶏も猫も長生きをしておりました。 ある年のこと。今まで元気だった庄屋様は寝込んでしまいました。その頃、一人の旅の坊様がこの村の近くを通りかかりました。夜になってしまったので、坊様は山の薬師堂で一夜を明かすこととしました。 しばらくして坊様が目を覚ますと、いつの間に来たのか年老いた一人の男が坊様の前に座っておりました。男は下村の庄屋様に飼われている鶏である、と坊様に告げました。坊様が驚いていると男はこう続けます。 庄屋様は今年で48歳にな...
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きつねの花嫁 Kitsune no hanayome - Mikawa
昔、三河の国の宇頭(うとう)という所に、とんでもないイタズラ好きな与太郎という若者がいました。今日も、薬師様にお供えしてあった油揚げに釣り針を仕掛けて、キツネを釣るイタズラをしていました。 イタズラに手を焼いた母親は、嫁さえもらえば与太郎も落ち着くだろうと考え、村の鎮守様に「どうかせがれに良い嫁が来るように」とお願いしました。そのおかげか、村の庄屋さんの紹介で、与太郎にも隣村から器量よし(美人)の嫁さんが来ることになりました。


沼薬師如来 numa Yakushi
...も再び目が見えるようになった。 このことがあってから、村人は大木の芯の部分で薬師様を彫り、また残りの部分を使って小さな薬師堂を建てた。この薬師堂は沼薬師と呼ばれるようになり、これ以降、村では目の病だけではなく流行病もなくなって長生きする者が増えたという。



子どもたちと薬師さま the children and Yakushi
昔、ある村に薬師様がありました。村の人たちはたいそう大事にしておりました。子供たちはお堂のそばで、雪合戦などをして毎日遊んでおりました。その子たちの一人が権兵衛。 ある日、権兵衛の親父の甚兵衛さんが村の寄り合いに出て、村の世話役に選ばれました。上機嫌で薬師堂のそばを通りましたら扉が開いている。中をのぞくとなんとしたことか、薬師様の像がない。 権兵衛たちがお堂のそばで遊ぶうち、薬師様と一緒に遊ぼうという話になって、引っ張り出したのでした。遊ぶうちに日が暮れたのか薬師様は雪の中で置き去りになっていたので


乳の薬師さま breast feeding and Yakushi - Nagoya
...いった。 困り果てたおさよは、身体の願いなら何でも叶うという名古屋の東光寺の薬師様へお参りに行くことにした。東光寺までの道のりは遠く、いくつも峠を越えなければならなかったが、おさよは真夜中に毎日毎日通い続けた。 満願である二十一日目、おさよが薬師様に精根こめてお願いすると、自分の乳房がみるみる張ってくるのを感じた。大急ぎで家に...乳をしゃぶらせると沢山の乳が出て、赤ん坊は死を免れることができた。おさよ夫婦はお薬師様にいつまでも感謝した

- source : nihon.syoukoukai.com


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薬師如来 紙芝居 Yakushi Nyorai - Kamishibai
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. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 place names .
many come with a legend


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Monsters, legends and Yakushi 妖怪データベース
- source : nichibun yokai database
薬師如来  29 (07)
薬師 183 (00)



YAKUSHI NYORAI, YAKUSHI TATHĀGATA Buddha of Medicine and Healing
Yakushi literally means Medicine Teacher
Lord of the Eastern Paradise of Pure Lapis Lazuli
(Jp. = Jōruri 浄瑠璃, Skt. = Vaiduryanirbhasa).
Yakushi’s full name is Yakushi-rurikō 薬師瑠璃光,
meaning Medicine Master of Lapis Lazuli Radiance.
Commonly shown holding medicine jar in left hand.
Among the 88 temples on the well-trodden Shikoku Pilgrimage, 23 are dedicated to Yakushi, second only to the 29 sites dedicated to Kannon (Goddess of Mercy).
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. Yakushi Nyorai - 薬師如来 - Introduction .




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Dondoro Taishi

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Dondoro Taishi どんどろ大師 Dondoro Daishi


- source : meiji-era-kabuki

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A famous temple in Ôsaka. It was built in 1752 to honour the soldiers who were killed during the 1615 Summer campaign. Its real name was Kyônyoan but it was nicknamed Dondoro Taishi because of the daimyô Doi Toshitsura 土井利位 (1789~1848), who was in service in Ôsaka Castle for the Shogunate from 1834 to 1837 and lived near the Kyônyoan. He assiduously prayed there and contributed to the fame of this temple.
It was a custom to call it "Doi-dono Taishi", which became Dondoro Taishi in popular speech.

"Keisei Awa no Naruto" was a 10-act drama. The 8th act, divided into two scenes, "Dondoro Taishi no Monzen" (the Temple Town (monzen) near Dondoro Taishi) and "Jûrôbei Uchi" (at Jûrôbei's Home), is the only one, which is still part of both the Kabuki and Bunraku repertoires. The drama nicknamed "Dondoro" is the first scene of this 8th act.

- Summary
Jûrobei, a samurai, has taken upon himself the task of finding his master's lost sword. He moves to Ôsaka with his wife Oyumi, leaving their infant daughter in the care of her grandmother for her own safety. He joins a band of thieves to allow himself access to places where the sword might be found and has been searching for 10 years to no avail.

In the scene immediately preceding the one performed, a messenger visits Oyumi who is alone at home. He brings a letter from one of Jûrobei's cohorts: their crimes have been discovered and some members of the group have been caught. Jûrobei and his wife should flee as soon as possible to escape capture.

Dondoro Taishi no Monzen
The Temple Town near Dondoro Taishi


Shortly thereafter, Oyumi hears the songs of a Buddhist pilgrim and the ringing of a bell. A young girl on a pilgrimage has called at the house. Oyumi gives her an offering of rice and invites her in when she learns that the girl is from her own home province. The girl tells of how she is on a walking pilgrimage from distant Awa in search of her parents from whom she was separated when she was a small child. Suspicious, Oyumi asks the names of the girl's parents. Whereupon, the girl tells her they are "Jûrobei" and "Oyumi".

Shocked to learn that the girl standing before her is her own daughter Otsuru, whom she had left behind years earlier, Oyumi is torn; she wants to take her beloved daughter in her arms, but if she reveals to the Otsuru that she is her mother the girl will surely be dragged into the sordid and potentially fatal affairs of her family. Oyumi fears for her daughter's life should she rejoin her parents, who may themselves be doomed. Clutching the letter she had earlier received, Oyumi vacillates but finally decides to compose herself and keep her identity secret.



The purity of Otsuru's devotion to the search for her parents pierces Oyumi's heart. She waivers several times but finally decides to tell the girl that she should go back to her grandmother and await her parents' return.

Touched by Oyumi's motherly compassion, the girl pleads that Oyumi might allow her to stay. Oyumi is overwhelmed by sadness but realizes that she must send Otsuru away for her own safety. She prepares some traveling money and gives it to the girl, but Otsuru will not accept it: she has enough for the road. Oyumi brushes the dust from Otsuru's kimono, then takes a hairpin and fixes Otsuru's hair before the girl turns to leave.

Unable to part without seeing her one last time Oyumi calls her daughter back to her and they embrace. Otsuru grasps the end of a strip of cloth that Oyumi is holding and tries to pull her mother toward her in a highly-stylized scene that is one of the most famous in the puppet theatre. Oyumi eventually pushes Otsuru out of the house then sits stifling her sobs beside the closed door as Otsuru beats on it from the other side.

Oyumi listens as Otsuru's song fades in the distance. Overcome with grief that she may never see her daughter again, Oyumi rushes out of the house to call her back. But the girl is already gone. Anguished, Oyumi is reduced to tears, but she resolves to go after her daughter. The scene ends with Oyumi standing before her house preparing to leave.
- source : www.kabuki21.com



Meiji Era Kabuki: Three Shintomiza Tsuji Banzuke

The performance date places the performance this tsuji banzuke advertised on 8th February 1912, the last year, 46, of the Meiji era, which ended that same year with the death of Emperor Meiji on 30th July 1912, which had been a time of major changes in Japanese society.


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摂津国八十八ケ所 - Henro Temples in Settsu no Kuni



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Nr. 11 - 如意山 / 三松山 - 甘露院 善福寺 Zenpuku-Ji
空堀町10-19, 大阪市天王寺区 / 10-19 Karahoricho, Tennoji Ward, Osaka

The main statue is of Kobo Daishi, with Aizen Myo-O 愛染明王 and Fudo Myo-O 不動明王 at his side (newly made after a fire during WWII destroyed the compound).
There are also statues of Nyoirin Kannon 如意輪観世音菩薩 and Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来.
鏡如庵大師堂 Kyonyo-An, Hall for Kobo Daishi
and
Doi Dono no Daishi 「土井殿の大師」(どいどののだいし)


The temple has been founded by Shokoku Taishi 聖徳太子 around 778. People came here to pray for favorable weather, especially protection from long rain or for rain during a draught.




Daishi meguri 大師巡り, visiting a temple in honor of Kobo Daishi on the 21 of each month, became quite popular in the region after the war.
In Osaka, this was
Naniwa Daishi meguri 浪華大師巡り.





In the compound is a bronze statue of
Shogun Jizoo 勝軍地蔵尊
in memory of the War with Russia from 1907.




O-Yumi and O-Tsuru in the temple compound


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. Shikoku Henro Temple List .


. 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 )

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


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


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