Jodoji Kannon Akasaka

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Joodoji 浄土寺 Jodo-Ji, Akasaka
平河山 Hirakawazan　源照院　Gensho-In 浄土寺 Jodoji
Jodo 浄土 the paradise of Amida Nyorai.

港区赤坂4-3-5 /Minato ward, Akasaka

The Kannon statue is 正観世音菩薩 Sho Kannon.
The main statue is 阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai.

The temple was founded by 聖公和尚 Priest Seiko (? - 1503)
in Chiyoda ward, 平河 Hirakawa.
It was relocated to its present place in 1665.

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This temple is Nr. 31 of the
. 山の手三十三観音霊場 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples along the Yamanote Line .

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

. Shō Kannon 聖観音 / 正観音 Sho Kannon / 聖観世音菩薩

. Tokyo Akasaka 赤坂 "the red slope" district .

. Hirakawachoo　平川町 Hirakawa-Cho, Hirakawa district .

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知多郡 Kita district 美浜町 Mihama town

Daikai Ryu Okami 大海龍大神 Great Dragon King of the Sea
In 1909 a huge kame 亀 turtle was washed ashore dead at the beach of 小佐 Kosa.
This turtle had appeared in the dream of the priest of 浄土寺 the Temple Jodo-Ji as an old man with white hair.
It had told the priest that if he would venerate the turtle as a deity, all his wishes would come true.
When the turtle died, the priest made a grave for it under ケヤキ a keyaki tree and prayed for it.
On the back of the turtle was an inscription 大海龍大神.
There was also an inscription of 谷村佐助 the clan of Tanimura Sasuke.
Sasuke had been to 伊勢神宮 the Great Shrine at Ise and prayed for the health and wellbeing of his clan.
A turtle appeared in his dream to let him know, his clan would be fine.
. keyaki 欅と伝説 Legends about a Zelkova tree .
. Ise Jingu 伊勢神宮 Great Shrine at Ise .
. ryuujin 竜神 /龍神 と伝説 Ryujin, Legends about the Dragon Deity .




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京都市 Kyoto city / 左京区 Sakyo ward

. Amida Nyorai Legends 阿弥陀如来と伝説 .
浄土寺 The Temple Jodo-Ji is at the foot of 如意ヶ嶽 Mount Nyoigatake (472 m).
Once there was a fire at the temple.
The statue of Amida Nyorai 阿弥陀如来 went up to the mountain and produced 大光明 a bright light to stop the fire.
Since the origin of the letter dai 大 "big",

which is lit up on the mountain in Kyoto at the end of the O-Bon rituals for the ancestors.

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Enseiji Fudo Furuhagi

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Enseiji 円政寺 Ensei-Ji - Furuhagi
月輪山 Gachirinzan 金毘羅社 Konpirasha 円政寺 Enseiji .

萩市古萩町6 / Hagi, Minamifuruhagi 6

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Nr. 08 - Shitara Doji 質多羅童子

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Constructed in 1254, Enseiji Temple has a torii gate at its entrance — despite being a temple and not a shrine — and this stone torii is a city-designated Tangible Cultural Property.
The temple grounds contain the Konpira-sha Hall (a Municipal Tangible Cultural Property) with its statues of the 12 zodiac signs.
It is an important location, being a rare example of the syncretism between Buddhism and Shinto.
The precincts also contain the rocking -horse (sacred horse) that Shinsaku Takasugi and Hirobumi Ito played with in their youth.
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The temple was built on request of 大内氏 the Ouchi clan of Hagi as their clan temple.
After the extinction of the Ouchi clan, in 1604, 毛利輝元 Mori Terumoto became regent of the region.
He relocated the temple to 塩屋町 Shioya district (now there is 多越神社 the Shrine Taetsu Jinja.

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Seiganji Kannon Sugamo

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Seiganji 清巖寺 Seigan-Ji, Nishi-Sugamo
長仙山 Chozenzan 清巖寺 Seiganji // 日照山 Nissozan　光明院 Komyo-In　清巌寺 Seiganji

東京都豊島区西巣鴨4-8-24 / Toshima ward, Nishi-Sugamo

The Kannon statue is 十一面観世音菩薩 Juichimen Kannon Bosatsu.
The main statue is 釈迦如来 Shaka Nyorai.

The temple was founded in 1615 by 国伝寒達 Kokuden Kandatsu
on request of 加藤勘助重正 Kato Kansuke Shigemasa (1575 - 1645).
Many graves of members of the Kato clan are in the compound.
It was first built in 1615 in 小日向 Kohinata.
In 1922 it was relocated to its present place.

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Shigemasa Kato 加藤重正
Shigemasa Kato (Kato Shigemasa, (1575 - 1645) ) was a samurai in the early Edo period.
He is Hatamoto. He is commonly known as Kansuke. He served Ieyasu Tokugawa, Hidetada Tokugawa, and Iemitsu Tokugawa.
His father is Shigetsune Kato. He has a daughter (Yoshinaga Omori's wife) as a child, Shigenaga Kato (the second son of Yoshinaga Omori) as an adopted child, and Masatoshi Kato.
His brothers are Masamitsu Kato, Shigekatsu Kato, and Tadashige Kato, who are separated from each other.
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Kansuke Kato Shigemasa is known as an equestrian.
His ancestor Shigehide Ueda (equestrian) taught him Ueda style equestrian. He served Ieyasu Tokugawa from the 5th year of Tensho (1577) and Hidetada Tokugawa, the second shogun from the 2nd year of Genna (1616), and received 400 stones of knowledge. Shigemasa was entrusted with Mima by Hidetada Tokugawa about the sword fighting on horseback, and became famous (there is another description that he told the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu about this).
In the 9th year of Genna (1623), when Hidetada went up, he served. In the 10th year of Kanei (1633) after Hidetada's death, he was entrusted with 30 concentric humans (guns) and was allowed to wear cloth. In the 11th year of Kanei (1634), he received 500 new stones of land, and became 900 stones in Kai and Musashi provinces.
He died on June 22, 1645. He was 71 years old.
He was buried at Seiganji Temple in Kohinata Daimachi, Koishikawa.
After that, Seiganji Temple became the burial ground of the Kato family for generations, and it is said that Shigemasa was opened with this. In 1922, Seiganji was relocated to Nishisugamo, Nishisugamo-cho, Toshima-ku (currently 4-chome, Nishisugamo, Toshima-ku) due to the expansion of the city planning road in Tokyo.
A stone pagoda with the name of Shigemasa engraved on the current Seiganji Temple still exists. It can be read as "Seiganji Ichibin Somi Daishi". Seiganin (Seiganin) in Fussa City is also known as the founder of Nakako, and the legal name of Shigemasa Kato, "Seiganin-den Ichibin Somi Daishi".
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This temple is Nr. 30 of the
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. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

. Shō Kannon 聖観音 / 正観音 Sho Kannon / 聖観世音菩薩

. Juichimen Kannon 十一面観音 Senju Kannon 千手観音 Kannon with 11 faces and 1000 arms .

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Koyasu Kannon Legends

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Koyasu Kannon 子安観音 Legends about Kannon, the Protector of Children

. Koyasu no kami 子安の神 Deities to protect children .

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roosoku ろうそく Rosoku candles
People get a special amulet from 子安観音 Koyasu Kannon, a piece of asa 麻 hemp and a candle.
If they light the candle in the birth room, it will be an easy birth.
. roosoku ろうそく / 蝋燭 Rosoku candles .




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三豊市 Mitoyo city 詫間町 Takuma town

koyasu Kannon コヤスカンノン
The Mori family had gotten contributions from stores in Osaka and Hyogo and made offerings to Kannon Sama.
The Koyasu Kannon takes special care of children during a thunderstorm.




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Mie 河藝郡 Kawate district

Kannon sama no 7 fushigi 観音様の７不思議
白子寺家子安観音the Temple Shirakodera, where Koyasu Kannon is venerated, has 7 不思議 seven wonders:
１：境内の鳩は地面を歩けず、The pidgeons of the templenever walk on the ground.
２：雀が歩いており、The sparrows walk on the ground.
３：境内の池の鮒は片目、The crucian carp in the pond have only one eye.
４：どんな大雨でも濡れない屋根瓦がある、The roof tiles do not get wet, even during a strong rainstorm.
５：笹葉が下向きに生えている。The babmoo leaves grow downward toward the ground.
６：不断桜、The cherry tree is constantly blooming.
７：鼓ヶ浦の波の音。The sound of the waves of Tsuzumigaura beach can be heard.

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Mie 鈴鹿市 Suzuka city

Shirakozan Temple Kannon-Ji

fudan zakura 不断桜 ever-lasting cherry tree
In the compound of 白子山観音寺 - 子安観音 the Temple Shirakozan Koyasu Kannon is
an old cherry tree, which flowers all year round.

Once there was a fire at the temple, but the cherry tree kept blooming.
Emperor 聖徳天皇 Shotoku heared about it and ordered the tree to be moved to his palace garden.
There the tree withered over night.
So he had the tree moved back to the original temple.
The leaves of this everlasting cherry tree help women to have an easy birth.
If the leaves are turnes up, it will be a boy, if they are turned down it will be a girl.
. Kannonji 観音寺 Kannon-Ji 白衣山 Shirokozan 子安観音寺 Koyasu Kannonji .

. Ise Saigoku 33 Kannon 伊勢西国三十三所観音巡礼 Pilgrimage . - 観音寺 Nr. 16

. Mie Shikoku Henro Info 三重四国八十八ヵ所霊場 . - 観音寺 Nr. 16

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tsuzumi ga ura 鼓ヶ浦 Tsuzumigaura beach

The main statue of 白子山 the Temple Shirakozan is Byakue Kannon 白衣観音 Kannon in white robes,
better known as Koyasu Kannon.
The statue was washed on the beach of Tsuzumigaura, sitting on a tsuzumi 鼓 hand drum.
The sound of the waves on the beach sounds like that of a hand drum, hence the name.

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Nanbaraji Fudo Mine Isa

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Nanbaraji 南原寺 Nanbara-Ji - Isa
桜山 Kazan 南原寺 Nanbaraji

山口県美祢市伊佐町南原 / Yamaguchi, Mine city, Isa town, Nanbara

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Nr. 07 - Chiedoo Doji 智慧幢童子 Chiedo Doji 　

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Imashime Fudo 戒め不動 Fudo to remind us to be careful

- Chant of the temple
御仏の御法の 花の 桜 山　宮香は四方に 現われにけり


This temple is the oldest in Yamaguchi.
The temple was founded by 聖徳太子 Shotoku Taishi.
It is also related to 神功皇 Empress Jingu Kogo.
花山法皇 Emperor Kazan Tenno revitalized the temple.
He stayed there for a long time because of 美祢尼 the Nun Mine, who gave birth to his child.
She later became a nun at the temple 利生山永福寺 Rishozan Eifuku-Ji.

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Emperor Kazan (花山天皇, Kazan-tennō (968 – 1008)

was the 65th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Kazan's reign spanned the years from 984 through 986.
He commissioned the Shūi Wakashū.
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Time for blossom viewing - 花ごよみ
しだれ桜　　４月初旬～中旬 - Shdarezakura
シャクナゲ　４月中旬～下旬 - Shakunage
カラー　　　 5月初旬旬～6月末 - Calla 　
彼岸花　　　９月中旬～９月末 - Higanbana
紅　葉　　　１１月中旬～１２月初旬 - Momiji red autumn leaves
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神戸市 Kobe city 兵庫区 Hyogo ward // 永福寺 Eifuku-Ji

. ryuu, ryū 龍　竜　伝説　Ryu - dragon legends .
Every morning the body of the dragon on the gate of 永福寺 the Eifuku-Ji was all wet.
The dragon would go off to the nearby beach and swim.
To keep him in place, an iron wire was placed around him.

Eifuku-Ji, 兵庫県神戸市兵庫区南仲町49


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Ryusenji Kannon Aoyama

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Ryuusenji 龍泉寺 Ryusen-Ji, Aoyama
信康山 Nobuyasuzan 常法院　Joho-In 龍泉寺 Ryusenji

港区南青山2-8-25 / Minato ward, Minami-Aoyama

The Kannon statue is 子安観世音菩薩 Koyasu Kannon Bosatsu
The statue was made by 伝教大師 Dengyo Daishi.
Dengyo Daishi also made a statue of 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai.
. Dengyo Daishi Saicho 伝教大師最澄 (766 - 822) .

The history of this temple is not clear.
It was originally located in 赤坂一ツ木町 Akasaka Hitotsugi district.
The statue was then called 一ツ木観音 Hitotsugi Kannon.
Maybe the temple was relocated here by Tokugawa Ieyasu from 三河国 Mikawa, now Aichi,
where 徳川信康 Tokugawa Nobuyasu, the son of Ieyasu, committed suicide.
In 1642, priest 源譽 Genryo became the head priest there.
Genryo changed the name to 瀧泉寺 Ryusen-Ji.
After a fire in 1887, it was relocated from Akasaka.

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This temple is Nr. 29 of the
. . 山の手三十三観音霊場 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples along the Yamanote Line .

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

.Koyasu Kannon 子安観音菩薩 Protector of Children

. Ryuusenji, Ryūsenji 龍泉寺 / 瀧泉寺 Ryusenji-Ji Temple Legends .

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Matsudaira Nobuyasu 松平信康, (1559 – 1579)

was the eldest son of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
His tsūshō ("common name") was Jirōsaburō (次郎三郎). He was called also "Okazaki Saburō" (岡崎 三郎), because he had become the lord of Okazaki Castle (岡崎城) in 1570.
Because he was a son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, he is often referred to, retroactively, as Tokugawa Nobuyasu (徳川 信康).
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Nomanji Fudo Tawarayama

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Noomanji 能満寺 Noman-Ji - Tawarayama
悉地山 Shijizan 能満寺 Nomanji

長門市俵山2441 / Yamaguchi, Nagato, Tawarayama

長門不動　Nagato Fudo

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Nr. 06 - Keishini Doji 計子爾童子

The main statue is 聖観音菩薩 Sho Kannon Bosatsu.
And a Kannon statue in the compound:

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An ancient Shingon-Buddhist temple to the west of Tawarayama Onsen.
Nouman-ji Temple was erected in 806 by the reknowned Japanese Buddhist monk Kukai, who had recently returned from a scholarly expedition to China.
Visitors to the temple today will be met with the bright scarlet of the temple gate, main hall, and small surrounding shrines at the crest of the temple's stone steps.

The ceiling of the temple's main hall is graced with ink paintings of flowers and islands by the master ink wash 雪舟 painter Sesshu, and within the small shrines dotting the temple grounds, wooden statues of the bodhisattva Kannon.
On the hill behind the temple grows a great tree (the "Shii-no-ki"), and at the crest of the hill, the temple's inner sanctum, which comprises part of a great pilgrimage path for followers of Shingon Buddhism.
Nouman-ji Temple is especially beautiful in autumn, partly for the two great gingko trees which grow on either side of its main gate.
- source : visit-nagato.com/en

. Kobo Daishi Kukai 弘法大師　空海 (774 - 835) .

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. Chitose Fudo 千歳不動尊 "Fudo of one thousand years" .
星王山 Hoshiozan 寶蔵院 / 宝蔵院 Hozo-In 能満寺 Noman-Ji
川崎市高津区千年354 / Kanagawa, Kawasaki city, Takatsu ward, Chitose

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Saimyooji 最明寺 Saimyo-Ji - Kamihoki
湯谷山 Yuyazan 最明寺 Saimyoji

下関市菊川町大字上保木354-1 / Shimonoseki, Kikugawa, Oaza, Kamihoki

厄除不動 Yakuyoke Fudo

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Nr. 05 - Mukuko Doji 無垢光童子

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The temple was founded in 1280.
The main statue was 阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai, made by 上宮太子 Uenomiya Taishi.
北條時頼 / 北条時頼 Hojo Tokiyori (1227 - 1263) gave it the name.
There are a many legends that Tokiyori traveled incognito throughout Japan
to inspect actual conditions to improve the lives of the people.
It became the family temple of 北條 the Hojo clan.
This small temple belongs now to the Jodo Shinshu Sect.
Uenomiya Taishi is another name for 聖徳太子 Shotoku Taishi (572 – 622).
. Prince 聖徳太子 Shotoku Taishi .

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shuin 朱印 stamp - Yakuyoke Fudo

- Homepage of the temple
- source : yassite.jp/JB/Shimo ...
- reference source : omairi club ... -
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高松市 Takamatsu city 塩江町 Shionoe town

Kumano Gongen 熊野権現 The Kumano Deity
During his travels in Japan, Gyoki Bosatsu stayed at 最明寺 the Temple Saimyo-Ji.
An old man with white hair appeared and told him that in the mountain near the temple was
yakusen 薬泉 a well with healing qualities.
When Gyoki asked the old man about his name, he said
Kumano Gongen 熊野権現 and then disappeared.
. 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu (668 - 749) .
. Kumano 熊野と伝説 Legends about Kumano .

Saimyo-Ji - better known as Hagidera 萩寺 Temple of the Bush Clover

香川県高松市塩江町安原下第１号２７４
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Shitennoji Temple Legends

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Shitennoji 四天王寺 Shitenno-Ji Legends

. Shitennoji 四天王寺 Temple Shitenno-Ji - Introduction .

. sange 散華 "scattered blossom" amulets from Shitenno-Ji .

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....................................................................... Kyoto 京都府 　
東山区 Kitayama ward

Once a poor mother left her child at the temple.
The high priest took care of it and it became a priest.
To search for his real parents, he begun to preach every day at 四天王寺 the Temple Shitenno-Ji.
Finally he could find his mother, who had gone blind.
He made offerings to Sanbo Shoten 三宝諸天 all the gread deities of hte three treasures
and oh wonder, his mother could see again.




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Shitenno-Ji no nanafushigi 四天王寺七不思議 the seven wonders of Shitenno-Ji
. Shitenno-Ji no nanafushigi .
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Shitennoji no Koshindo 庚申堂 the Koshin Hall at Shitenno-Ji
At 庚申堂 the Hall for Koshin there was a special ritual on the day of Koshin in the seventh month.
The last Koshin Day in December was also special.
If people came to the Koshin Hall naked to pray, they would be healed from bed wetting.
Therefore many men came just wearing their underwear.
. kooshin 庚申伝説 Legends about the Koshin Cult .

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大阪市 Osaka city

. Master Carver Hidari Jingoro 左甚五郎 at the Temple .

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. gama 蝦蟇と伝説 Legends about toads .
In March of 784, the first year of the regency of 桓武天皇 Emperor Kanmu Tenno (735 – 806)
20000 gama 蝦蟇 toads came to the shore at 難波 Nanba and walked to 四天王寺 the Temple Shitenno-Ji.
After showing their respect, the animals scattered in the area.

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大阪市 Osaka city 天王寺区 Tennoji ward

. amagoi 雨乞いと伝説 Legends about rain rituals / Regenzauber .
In the West of 四天王寺 the Temple Shitenno-Ji there is a pond.
During a drought the water can all disappear.
After a rain ritual, it will soon start to rain.

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ishi to ka shita ushi 石と化した牛 an ox turned stone
During the construction of 四天王寺 the Temple Shitenno-Ji the stones were transported by ushiguruma 牛車 ox carts.
When the buildings were completed, one ox turned into stone.
Its statue is now verenated in a small sanctuary in the South of the main temple.

. ushi 牛と伝説 Legends about ox, bull, cow . . .

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Moriya no basson 守屋の末孫 the descendants of Moriya

The descendants of、物部守屋 Mononobe Moriya (? - 587) are still living
near the Eastenr Gate of 四天王寺 the Temple Shitenno-Ji.
During the rituals of the death of Shotoku Taishi on February 22 (old lunar calendar)
they come down from 六時堂 the Hall Rokujido, wearing a formal court dress.

Mononobe no Moriya (物部 守屋, died 587) was an Ō-muraji,
a high-ranking clan head position of the ancient Japanese Yamato state,
having inherited the position from his father Mononobe no Okoshi.
Like his father, he was a devoted opponent of Buddhism,
which had recently been introduced to Japan from the continent.
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. seiryuu ike 青竜池 the pond of the Azure Dragon .
and kamei no mizu 亀井の水, where fresh water from the Turtle Well always flows.

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. Shotoku Taishi 聖徳太子 - Legends .

Shotoku Taishi no fue 聖徳太子の笛 the flute of Prince Shotoku Taishi
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龍笛 / 高麗笛 （京不見御笛 （きょうみず））
Ryuteki Flute / Komabue Flute (Kyomizu-no-Ofue).
Legend had it that Prince Shōtoku Taishi was once playing the flute while riding on a horse when, suddenly,
a mountain god charmed by the melody appeared before him in the shape of a monkey and improvised a dance.
The monkey-face mask still used by the dancer could thus be taken as evidence
that the bugaku piece is a depiction of this scene.
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Anzenji Kannon Aizumi

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Anzenji 安禅寺 / 安禪寺 Anzen-Ji, Aizumi
円通山 Entsuzan 正受院 Shoju-In 安禅寺 Anzenji

新宿区愛住町9-3 / Shinjuku, Aizumi

The main Kannon statue is 聖観世音菩薩 Sho Kannon.
It was carved by 慈覚大師円仁 Jigaku Daishi Ennin .
In 1571, when 比叡山 the Temple Hieizan in Kyoto was torched,
a priest carried the statue on his back to a mountain retreat in Southern Gifu.
Around 1715 it came back to the Temple.
. Ennin -　Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 / 慈覺大師 (794 – 864) .

This temple was founded by a priest from the Nichiren sect in 1608 in 麹町清水谷 Shimizudani, Kojimachi district.
In 1634, it was relocated to its present place.
In 1659, a priest from the Tendai sect took over as head priest.
The name of the Temple was first written 安善寺 Anzen-Ji with 善,
and in 1751 changed to 安禅寺 Anzen-Ji with 禅.
In 1813 it was finally written 安禅寺 Anzen-Ji.

An important statue in the compound was Tankiri Jizo Bosatsu たん切り地蔵,
who was known to heal illness of the lungs.

When the temple was relocated, the statue of Jizo was also relocated.
At the end of WW II the temple burned down.

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- source : tendaitokyo.jp/jiinmei ...

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This temple is Nr. 25 of the
. . 山の手三十三観音霊場 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples along the Yamanote Line .

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

. Shō Kannon 聖観音 / 正観音 Sho Kannon / 聖観世音菩薩

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