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2022/07/05

Adachi Yakushi Pilgrimage Info

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Adachi 12 Yakushi Pilgrimage
武蔵東向寅薬師足立十二札所 Buso Higashimuki Tora Yakushi


There are two pilgrimages, one in the North and one in the South.

. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 Bhaisajyaguru .
the Buddha of Medicine and Healing

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足立十二薬師霊場(北部) North


1番 大智山 覚母院 文珠寺  さいたま市緑区三室1956 . 01 文殊寺 Monju-Ji, .
2番 瑠璃光山 東漸寺 阿弥陀如来 天台宗 さいたま市緑区馬場1丁目3 . 02 東漸寺 Tozen-Ji .
3番 薬王山 報恩寺 薬師如来 天台宗 . 03 報恩寺 Hoon-Ji .
4番 青柳山 普光院 東泉寺 阿弥陀如来 天台宗 さいたま市浦和区瀬ケ崎2-15-3 足立100不動、新秩父34観音
5番 元町薬師堂 さいたま市浦和区元町2丁目10 金井薬師堂とも
6番 修妙山 宝性寺 不動明王 真言宗智山派 さいたま市南区南本町2-13-4 - . 06 報恩寺 Hosho-Ji .
7番 前地薬師堂 さいたま市浦和区前地1丁目7
8番 坊之在家薬師堂 さいたま市緑区原山4丁目17-22 薬師会館内
9番 中丸薬師堂 さいたま市緑区大字中尾1749 自治会館内
10番 水深薬師堂 さいたま市緑区大字大間木349付近 自治会館内の隣
11番 西谷薬師堂 さいたま市緑区東浦和5丁目15-27 自治会館内
12番 柳崎薬師堂 川口市柳崎5丁目21 柳崎町会館内
特番 護国山 極楽寺 守光院 薬師如来 曹洞宗 さいたま市南区太田窪5-11-9
- reference source : bonnozaike.global-s.online/yakushi... -

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足立十二薬師霊場(南) South

01番 文蔵薬師堂 薬師如来 さいたま市南区文蔵4-7-5 . 01 Bunzo Yakushi Do 文蔵薬師堂 .
02番 成就院 上寺薬師堂 地蔵菩薩 真言宗豊山派 さいたま市浦和区常盤1-4-23 / 北足立88霊場、/ 常盤1・2丁目自治会館
03番 上ノ宮薬師堂 薬師如来 さいたま市桜区西堀2-3-9
04番 根岸薬師堂 不動明王(?) さいたま市南区根岸4-2-7 根岸公会堂、北足立88霊場
05番 金輪山 威光院 医王寺 白幡薬師堂 大日如来 真言宗豊山派 さいたま市南区白幡2-16-8
- - - - - . 05 Iooji 醫王寺 / 医王寺 Io-Ji .
06番 下戸田薬師堂 薬師如来 真言宗智山派 戸田市下戸田1-5-10 正覚院(戸田市中町2)の管理
07番 神童山 真光寺 薬王院 不動明王 真言宗智山派 さいたま市桜区田島5-15-5 . 07 薬王院 Yakuo-In .
08番 鶴寿山 安楽院 宝泉寺 薬師如来 真言宗智山派 さいたま市南区鹿手袋6-3-15 . 08 宝泉寺 Hosen-Ji .
09番 青柳山 薬王院 東光寺 釈迦如来 天台宗 さいたま市南区内谷4-17-7
09番 美女木薬師堂 薬師如来 戸田市美女木3-18-11
10番 東光山 慈眼寺 薬師如来 真言宗智山派 戸田市笹目5-12-11 . 10 慈眼寺 Jiganji .
11番 岸町薬師堂 薬師如来 さいたま市浦和区岸町7-9-25 岸高野薬師
12番 金亀山 極楽寺 三学院 中上薬師堂 十一面観世音菩薩 真言宗智山派 蕨市北町3-2-4 / 関東108地蔵、北足立88霊場 /足立坂東33観音
Nr. 09 has two temples because of Fudo Myo-O.

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2021/04/08

Yakushi Do Hall Legends

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Yakushidoo 薬師堂 Yakushi-Do Temple Legends
陸奥国分寺薬師堂 Mutsu Kokubun-Ji Yakushi Do

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. O-Mamori お守り Amulets and Talismans .

. 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 Bhaisajyaguru - ABC .

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下萌や陸奥国分寺薬師堂
shitamoe ya Mutsu Kokubun-Ji Yakushi Doo

sprouts and shoots -
the Yakushi Hall at
Kokubunji in Mutsu

Tr. Gabi Greve

山崎ひさを Yamasaki Hisao

. WKD : shitamoe - kigo for early spring .

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Mutsu Kokubun-ji (陸奥国分寺)
is a Buddhist temple in Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai, Japan, belonging to the Shingon-shū Chizan-ha sect, and is the provincial temple ("kokubunji") of former Mutsu Province.
The grounds of the temple are a National Historic Site. and one of its structures, the early Edo period Yakushi-dō (薬師堂) is an Important Cultural Property.
The Shoku Nihongi records that in 741, as the country recovered from a major smallpox epidemic, Emperor Shōmu ordered that a monastery and nunnery be established in every province, the kokubunji (国分寺). ...
... Following the establishment of Sendai Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate, Masamune Date rebuilt the complex from 1605 on a large scale, but not upon the original foundations. At one point, it was surrounded by 25 subsidiary chapels. However, following the Meiji restoration, most of the temple was destroyed by the government's anti-Buddhism movement, leaving only one chapel at the present-day Yakushi-do...
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .


....................................................................... Akita 秋田県  
湯沢市 Yuzawa city 桑崎 Kazaki

. Ono no Komachi 小野小町 .
Once Ono no Komachi became infected with scabies.
She retreated to 薬師堂 the Temple Yakushi-Do at Kazaki and washed herself with pure water.
Soon she was healed.




....................................................................... Ehime 愛媛県  
今治市 Imabari city

. enko エンコ a Kappa .
Once upon a time, a man named Yoichi went to his field near 薬師堂 the Temple Yakushi-Do
when a Kappa came out and wanted to do Sumo with him.
Yoichi made the Kappa wait, went into the Yakushi Hall, had a Buddhist meal and then came out again.
By now, the Kappa had run away.




....................................................................... Fukushima 福島県  
Fukushima 伊達市 Date city 月館町 Tsukidate town

reimu 霊夢 an oracle dream
Once the daughter of the Lord of 信夫城 the Shinobu castle took the statue of 薬師 Yakushi Nyorai
and climbed 女神山 the mountain Megamiyama (Mountain of the Female Deity).
Villagers from 18 families joined her. They saw her place the statue in a small hall.
Back home they decided to build a real 薬師堂 Hall for Yakushi Nyorai.

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Fukushima いわき市 Iwaki city

ishi 石 a stone
In the garden of 薬師堂 the Temple Yakushi-Do there was a stone looking like a dokko 独鈷 Vajra.
People thought it was really amazing. - - But now it is not there any more.

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Fukushima 南会津郡 Minami-Aizu district

shinmei sama しんめい様 / 神明 the Deity Shinmei Sama
At 薬師堂 the Temple Yakushi-Do in 大宮村木伏 Omiya village, Kippushi hamlet,
there is a statue of the deity 神明 Shinmei Sama.
If someone in the village gets ill, the priest of the temple takes it to them.
In the box there is a male and a female deity. Their robes are luxurious.
If someone has a headace or stiff shoulders, or children are crying a lot, they come here to get healed.
The festival of Yakushi is on April 8.
The festival for Shinmei Sama is on June 10.




....................................................................... Gifu 岐阜県  
Gifu 益田郡 Masuda district 下呂町 Gero town and 上原村 Kaminohara village

. uma 馬 koma 駒伝説 horse legends .
At 蚕飼薬師堂 the Temple Kogai Yakushi-Do there is an ema 絵馬 amulet with a horse.
At night, the horse, painted by 狩野法眼 Kano Hogen, gets of the painting and devastates the fields nearby.
They painted some reins on the horse and it stopped leaving.




....................................................................... Ibaraki 茨城県  
東村 Higashi village

. Yakushida 薬師田 / ヤクシダ "Fields of Yakushi" .




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. inu 犬と伝説 Legends about a dog / Hund .
At 薬師堂 the Temple Yakushi-Do on the island 江ノ島 Enoshima,
樋爪俊衡 Hizume Toshihira, a warior of the Heian period, is enshrined.
The Yakushi does not like dogs or chicken.
If someone on the island eats them, people will have bad luck.

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Iwate 西磐井郡 Nishi-Iwai district 平泉町 Hiraizumi town

. Karasu Tengu 烏天狗 Crow Tengu .
At the 中尊寺薬師堂 Yakushido Hall at Temple Chuzon-Ji there is the skull of a Karasu Tengu.




....................................................................... Kagawa 香川県  
綾歌郡 Ayauta district 綾川町 Ayagawa town

. uma 馬 koma 駒伝説 horse legends .
A man once stayed over night at 薬師堂 the Temple Yakushi-Do near the lake.
At night he got up to the toilet he saw a small horse getting bigger and bigger.
When it was so large he had to look up to it, it disappeared.
Soon there came another small horse and became bigger.
He was so afraid that he run away as fast as he could.

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Kagawa 三豊郡 Mitoyo district 詫間町 Takuma town

If a woman has an ill child or her husband is ill
or a good friend becomes ill and she wants them to get better,
she cuts her hair and brings it to 薬師堂 the Temple Yakushi-Do as an offering.




....................................................................... Kochi 高知県  
長岡郡 Nagaoka district 西豊永村 Nishitoyonaga village

. The tsue 杖 walking staff of 行基菩薩 Saint Gyoki Bosatsu .




....................................................................... Kumamoto 熊本県  
阿蘇郡 Aso district

nureonna ヌレオンナ a wet woman
The nure-onna ヌレオンナ a wet woman often appears in the Aso region.
She is a monster with wet hair. She lures people and drinks their blood.
People think it is a middle-aged serpent.
She is often seen at 薬師堂 the Temple Yakushi-Do near the 栃木温泉 Tochigi hot spring.
. hebi 蛇と伝説 Legends about snakes and serpents .




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Kyoto 亀岡市 Kameoka city

If 薬師堂の鐘 the temple bell from the Yakushi-Do Hall is sunk into the nearby river 蛇谷川 Jadanigawa
it will soon start to rain.
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Kyoto 舞鶴市 Maizuru city

kane no oto 鐘の音 the sound of a bell
Near the crematorium there used to be 薬師堂 the Temple Yakushi-Do.
People say that some koban 小判 gold coins have been buried there.
On a quiet day the sound from the temple bell can be heared.

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Kyoto 南丹市 Nantan city

If people pray at 薬師堂 the Yakushi Do Hall at 成就院 the temple Joju-In,
people with hearing problems will always get better.
To express their gratitude, healed people bring stones with a hole as a thank-you offering.

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. kyuuri kaji 胡瓜加持 ritual for cucumber purification .
kyuuri fuuji きゅうり封じ / 胡瓜封じ cucumber ritual




....................................................................... Miyagi 宮城県 
柴田郡 Shibata district 柴田町 Shibata

. nure Yakushi 濡れ薬師 Yakushi who got wet .
and the beautiful Lady O-Yoshi およし

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Miyagi 仙台市 Sendai city

. Daruma ko ame 達磨コ飴 / 達磨子飴 Daruma lollipops .




....................................................................... Nagano 長野県  
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Nagano 木曽郡 Kiso district 木祖村 Kiso village

Once 薬師堂 the Temple Yakushi-Do burned down in a huge fire, even the meadows nearby burned.
But one small building did not burn.
When they later investigated, they found that the statue of Yakushi Nyorai was in the hall.
They say the statue of Yakushi Nyorai walked over there all by itself.

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Nagano 北安曇郡 Kita-Azuma district 小谷村 Otani village

arabiru kamisama あらびる神様 a wild deity
Once upon a time, there was a very wild Deity in the area, disturbing the villagers.
The villagers put the deity in the ground and built 薬師堂 a Yakushi-Do hall above it.
The villagers had feared this "wild deity" and even now
if someone touches the earth below the hall, he will be cursed.

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Nagano 更埴市 Koshoku town 桑原村 Kuwahara village

tsuetsuki sakura 杖つき桜 a cherry tree growing from a walking staff
In 薬師堂 the Temple Yakushi-Do there is an old cherry tree.
When Priest Saigyo Hoshi came to the village, he jammed his walking staff in the ground near the lake,
where it begun to grow.
. Saigyo Hoshi 西行法師 and the Cherry Blossoms .




....................................................................... Nara 奈良県  
吉野郡 Yoshino district 吉野町 Yoshino town

. kagayaita yo na sugata no hito 輝いたような姿の人 "a shining person" .




....................................................................... Tochigi 栃木県  
鹿沼市 Kanuma city

In front of the home of the Uesawa family, there is 薬師堂 a Temple Yakushi-Do.
If people wash their eyes with the water of the temple, they will be healed.
Healthy people will never get an eye disease.
But now there is no more water in the well.




....................................................................... Yamaguchi 山口県 
下関市 Shimonoseki city

The pond in the grounds of the remains 薬師堂 of the Temple Yakushi-Do
was used to wash the eyes to heal a disease.
The water would also remove warts.




....................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県 
韮崎市 Nirasaki city 大草町 Okusa town

. kadomatsu 門松と伝説 Legends about pine decorations .
at the temple 正福寺 Shofuku-Ji


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2015/02/10

Sasaguri Henro Kyushu

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Sasaguri 篠栗四国八十八箇所 88 Henro Temples
Sasaguri Shikoku Hachijuuhachi kasho (ささぐりしこくはちじゅうはちかしょ)
篠栗霊場 Sasaguri reijo


Pilgrimage to 88 sacred temples in Sasaguri, Fukuoka, Kyushu
in honor of Kobo Daishi Kukai 弘法大師 空海.

One of the three new Henro pilgrimages in Japan.

It has been established by a monk called 慈忍 Jinin around 1835, after he completed the Henro walk in Shikoku. He wanted to give the priests, nuns and villagers, who could not travel to Shikoku, to have a chance to the benefit of a full pilgrimage. After his death, the caritable people of the village 篤志家 continued to support this project.


Kobo Daishi at Nr. 62 石原山遍照院 Henjo-In


. Kobo Daishi Reijo 弘法大師霊場 Kobo Daishi Pilgrimages in Japan .


. 九州88ヶ所108霊場 Kyushu - 88 and 108 temples .  

Sasaguri (篠栗町 Sasaguri-machi) is a town in Kasuya District, Fukuoka.

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Jake Ojisan is doing the pilgrimage
. ojisanjake.com ... .

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Mount Wakasugiyama near Sasaguri  Myoo-In.



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01 - . Nanzooin, Nanzoo-In 南蔵院 Nanzo-In, Nanzoin .

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2 松ヶ瀬阿弥陀堂 阿弥陀如来 松ヶ瀬 - Amida Do
3 城戸釈迦堂 釈迦如来 城戸 - Shaka Do
4 金出大日堂 大日如来 金出 - Dainichi Do
5 郷ノ原地蔵堂 地蔵菩薩 郷ノ原 - Jizo Do
6 小浦薬師堂 薬師如来 小浦 - Yakushi Do
7 田ノ浦阿弥陀堂 阿弥陀如来 田ノ浦 - Amida Do
8 金剛の滝観音堂 千手観世音菩薩 山王 - Kannon Do
9 山王釈迦堂 釈迦如来 山王 - Shaka Do

10 切幡寺 千手観世音菩薩 高野山真言宗 山王 - Kannon Bosatsu
11 山手薬師堂 薬師如来 山手 - Yakushi Do
12 千鶴寺 虚空蔵菩薩 郷ノ原 - Kokuzo Bosatsu
13 城戸大日堂 十一面観世音菩薩 城戸 - Dainichi Do
14 二ノ滝寺 弥勒菩薩 高野山真言宗 中ノ河内 - Miroku Bosatsu
15 妙音寺 薬師如来 天台宗 金出 - Yakushi Nyorai
16 呑山観音寺 千手観世音菩薩 高野山真言宗 萩尾 - Kannon-Ji
17 山手薬師堂 薬師如来 山手 - Yakushi Do
18 篠栗恩山寺 薬師如来 上町 - Yakushi Nyorai
19 篠栗地蔵堂 地蔵菩薩 上町 - Jizo Do

20 中ノ河内地蔵堂 地蔵菩薩 中ノ河内 - Jizo Do
21 高田虚空蔵堂 虚空蔵菩薩 高田 - Kokuzo Do
22 桐ノ木谷薬師堂 薬師如来 桐ノ木谷 - Yakushi Do
23 山王薬師堂 薬師如来 山王 - Yakushi Do
24 中ノ河内虚空蔵堂 虚空蔵菩薩 中ノ河内 - Kokuzo Do
25 金剛山秀善寺 一願地蔵菩薩 高野山真言宗 山手 - Ichigan Jizo Bosatsu
26 薬師大寺 薬師如来 高野山真言宗 荒田 - Yakushi Dai-Ji
27 神峰寺 十一面観世音菩薩 金出 - Kannon Bosatsu
28 篠栗公園大日寺 大日如来 中町 - Dainichi Ji
29 荒田観音堂 千手観世音菩薩 荒田 - Kannon Do

30 田ノ浦斐玉堂 阿弥陀如来 田ノ浦 - Amida Nyorai
31 城戸文殊堂 文殊菩薩 城戸 - Monju Do
32 高田十一面観音堂 十一面観世音菩薩 高田 - Kannon Do
33 本明院 薬師如来 天台宗 田中 - Yakushi Nyorai
34 宝山寺 薬師如来 高野山真言宗 郷ノ原 - Yakushi Nyorai
35 珠林寺薬師堂 薬師如来 浄土宗 金出 - Yakushi Do
36 呑山天王院 波切不動明王 高野山真言宗 萩尾 - Namikiri Fudo Myo-O
37 高田阿弥陀堂 阿弥陀如来 高田 - Amida Do
38 丸尾観音堂 千手観世音菩薩 丸尾 - Kannon Do
39 篠栗山延命寺 薬師如来 高野山真言宗 上町 - Enmei-Ji - Yakushi Nyorai

40 一ノ滝寺 薬師如来 真言宗醍醐派 山手 - Yakushi Nyorai
41 平原観音堂 十一面観世音菩薩 山王 - Kannon Do
42 中ノ河内仏木寺 大日如来 中ノ河内 - Dainichi Nyorai
43 源光山明石寺 千手観世音菩薩 真言宗大覚寺派 鳴渕 - Kannon Bosatsu
44 大宝寺 十一面観世音菩薩 高野山真言宗 金出 - Kannon Bosatsu





45 城戸ノ滝不動堂 不動明王 篠栗 - Taki Fudo Hall
46 岡部薬師堂 薬師如来 岡部 - Okabe Yakushi Do
47 萩尾阿弥陀堂 阿弥陀如来 萩尾 - Amida Do
48 中ノ河内観音堂 十一面観世音菩薩 中ノ河内 Kannon Do
49 小松尾山雷音寺 釈迦如来 高野山真言宗 萩尾 - Shaka Nyorai

50 郷ノ原薬師堂 薬師如来 郷ノ原 - Yakushi Do
51 下町薬師堂 薬師如来 下町 - Yakushi Do
52 山手観音堂 十一面観世音菩薩 山手 - Kannon Do
53 桐ノ木谷阿弥陀堂 阿弥陀如来 桐ノ木谷 - Amida Do
54 中町延命寺 不動明王 中町 - Enmei-Ji - Fudo Myo-o
55 桐ノ木谷大日堂 大通智勝仏 桐ノ木谷 - Dainichi Do
56 松ヶ瀬地蔵堂 地蔵菩薩 松ヶ瀬 - Jizo-Do
57 田ノ浦栄福堂 阿弥陀如来 田ノ浦 - Amida Nyorai
58 大久保観音堂 千手観世音菩薩 大久保 - Kannon Do
59 田ノ浦薬師堂 薬師如来 田ノ浦 - Yakushi Do

60 神変寺 大日如来 高野山真言宗 松ヶ瀬 - Dainichi Nyorai
61 山王寺 大日如来 真言宗御室派 山王 - Dainichi Nyorai
62 石原山遍照院 十一面観世音菩薩 - Henjo-In
63 天狗岩山吉祥寺 毘沙門天 天狗岩 - Bishamon Ten
64 荒田阿弥陀堂 阿弥陀如来 荒田 - Amida Do
65 三角寺 十一面観世音菩薩 高野山真言宗 御田原 - Kannon Bosatsu
66 観音坂観音堂 千手観世音菩薩 金出 - Kannon Do
67 山王薬師堂 薬師如来 山王 - Yakushi Do
68 岡部神恵院 阿弥陀如来 山王 - Amida Nyorai
69 高田観音堂 聖観世音菩薩 高田 - Kannon Do

70 五塔の滝 馬頭観世音菩薩 鳴渕 - Bato Kannon
71 城戸千手観音堂 千手観世音菩薩 城戸 - Kannon Do
72 田ノ浦拝師堂 大日如来 田ノ浦 - Haishi Do - Dainichi Nyorai
73 山王釈迦堂 釈迦如来 山王 - Shaka Do
74 城戸薬師堂 薬師如来 城戸 - Yakushi Do
75 紅葉ヶ谷薬師堂 薬師如来 郷ノ原 - Yakushi Do
(75) 善通寺 薬師如来 単立 荒田 - Zentsu-Ji - Yakushi Nyorai
76 萩尾薬師堂 薬師如来 萩尾 - Yakushi Do
77 山王薬師堂 薬師如来 山王 - Yakushi Do
78 山手阿弥陀堂 阿弥陀如来 山手 - Amida Do
79 補陀洛寺 十一面観世音菩薩 高野山真言宗 下町 - Fudaraku-Ji - Kannon

80 田ノ浦観音堂 千手観世音菩薩 田ノ浦 - Kannon Do
81 二瀬川観音堂 千手観世音菩薩 二瀬川 - Kannon Do
82 鳥越観音堂 千手観世音菩薩 鳴渕 - Kannon Do
83 千手院 聖観世音菩薩 高野山真言宗 御田原 - Kannon Bosatsu
84 中町屋島寺 十一千手面観世音菩薩 中町 - Kannon Bosatsu
85 祖聖大寺 聖観世音菩薩 高野山真言宗 郷ノ原 - Kannon BOsatsu
86 金出観音堂 十一面観世音菩薩 金出 - Kannon Do
87 弘照院 聖観世音菩薩 高野山真言宗 金出 - Kannon Bosatsu
88 大久保薬師堂 薬師如来 Okubo Yakushi-Do






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篠栗霊場の歴史は天保年間、慈忍という人物がこの地を訪れた天保六年に始まる。慈忍は四国八十八箇所を巡拝したその帰りに篠栗村に立ち寄った尼僧であった。四国八十八箇所の開祖たる弘法大師も訪れたと伝わるこの村の者達の困窮を垣間見た慈忍は、その救済を目論みこの地にとどまり弘法大師の名において祈願を続け、やがて村に安寧をもたらしたものと伝わる。このことを弘法大師の利益(りやく)であるとした慈忍は、村の者達に四国のそれを模した88か所の霊場の造成を提案。呼応した村人達の手によって徐々に石仏がつくられはじめ、慈忍が没したのちにおいて、その志を継ぐ村の篤志家達の尽力によって88に達する霊場群が完成、それが今にある篠栗霊場の起源であると伝わっている。なお、明治期、成立した霊場会に対し、一部の寺院が土地建物を買収し、本来の札所とは一部異なる、との批判もある。
- source : wikipedia




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sasaguri ささ栗(ささぐり)chestnut sweet
sasame sasaguri さゝめさゝ栗
from Gifu, Nakatsugawa town



. sweet chestnut (kuri 栗) .

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. Kobo Daishi, Kukai 弘法大師 空海 .
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. Kobo Daishi Reijo 弘法大師霊場 Kobo Daishi Pilgrimages in Japan .

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



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

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2018/02/10

Yakushi Fukui statues

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and statues from Fukui 福井県

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Obama 小浜市



A statue from the Kamakura period. About 80 cm high.
国分寺 Kokubun-Ji

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A statue from the Heian period. About 144 cm high.
明通寺 Myotsu-Ji

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A statue from the Heian period. About 193 cm high. Made from hinoki 桧材 cypress wood.
多田寺 Tada-Ji


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A statue from the Heian period. About 142 cm high.


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A statue from the Kamakura period. About 50 cm high.
竜前寺 Ryuzen-Ji


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Sabae 鯖江市 



医王山薬師堂 Iozan Yakushi-Do hall
下新庄町 Shimoshinjocho
In this Yakushido there used to live a 小天狗 Ko-Tengu.
武家の血を引く“泰太郎”は、母とともに薬師堂に住んでいた。毎夜、裏山の天狗から武芸と学問を学び成長した泰太郎は、小天狗のあだ名で呼ばれ、荒れ地を開いたり道路を造ったりして村の繁栄に力を尽くしたという。



薬師堂古墳 Yakushido Hall Kofun mound
from the late Kofun period. About 20 m diameter, 3 m high.
On its top is the 医王山薬師堂 Yakishido hall.
下新庄町 Shimoshinjocho



About 250 cm high.

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Wakasa 若狭町




A statue from the Heian period. About 158 cm high.
諦応寺 Taio-Ji


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A statue from the Heian period. About 160 cm high.
雲岳寺 Ungaku-Ji

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A statue from the Heian period. About 87 cm high.
玉泉寺 Gyokusen-Ji

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. Yakushi Nyorai - Legends from the provinces .

Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Fukui 福井県

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名田庄村 Natasho

At the shrine 薬師神社 Yakushi Jinja in 蛇頭集落 Jato village people pray that 大蛇 a huge serpent will not become too wild.
In former times someone found some large blue stones, thought to be the bones of a serpent.
Around 1950 children played with these stones and eventually they got lost.

- Other Yakushi Jinja 薬師神社 Shrines in Fukui:

福井県丹生郡越前町中33-10 / Nyu district, Echizen-cho

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亭の水 Chin no Mizu water at Yakushi Jinja 薬師神社
福井市高尾町 / Takao-cho, Fukui town



Near the shrine is a memorial stone for the doctor 谷野一柏 Tanino Ippaku. It has been put there by the lord 朝倉孝景 Asakura Takakage (1428 - 1481).
Chin no Mizu helps cure eye diseases. Doctor Tanino Ippaku used it to make medicine.

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The hot spring of あわら市 Awara features some Yakushi temples and a shrine.

田中温泉薬師神社 Tanaka Onsen Yakushi Jinja



Apart from this Yakushi Jinja, are two temples for Yakushi in the hot spring district:


舟津温泉薬師堂 Funatsu Onsen Yakushi-Do hall



二面温泉薬師堂 Futaomote Onsen Yakushi-Do hall

People come here to pray for good health, not getting ill and for a long life

Awara Onsen opened in the 16th year of Meiji (1883).
The hot-spring spa’s beginning goes back to 1883 when a farmer was digging an irrigation well in a reedy swamp, and 80-degree hot spring water with low salt content welled up. Next year in 1884, several Onsen hotels opened and attracted visitors for toji  (hot spring cure).

あわら温泉春まつり Awara Onsen Spring Festival


This is a traditional festival that’s been held from the end of the Meji period since the Onsen was founded in 1883.
The Yakushi Shrine festival is held on April 29th every year for the guardian god of Onsen.
The festival starts with a dance by Ashihara Geiko, Mikoshi portable shrines and three kinds of Dashi floats are carried around. A Doll Dashi float using the design of generals from the Warring States Period. Taiko (drum) Dashi float beats the drums. Geiko performers play splendid music in the Hanayama Dashi float, which is decorated gorgeously with cherry blossoms. A lot of vendor stalls open and visitors can enjoy the lively Onsen town.
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福井県吉田郡永平寺町松岡薬師一丁目112番 Matsuoka Yakushi, Eiheiji-cho, Yoshida-gun, Fukui
A district near the famous temple Eihei-Ji


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2022/07/31

Nakagawa Henro Pilgrimage

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Nakagawa 那珂川八十八ヶ所霊場 88 Temples Pilgrimage
Thh pilgrimage was established in 1880 by 田中嘉平翁 Tanaka Kahei.
当霊場は明治13年(1880)、田中嘉平翁により開創されたという。 開創の由来は第41番 釈迦堂のページをご覧ください。
札所は翁の没後埋もれていっていたものを、昭和6年(1931)翁の娘さんがの夫が大徳寺住職に八十八ヶ所の再興について協力を要請。
昭和6年{(1931)11月、現在の八十八ヶ所が発足した。 終戦直後の混乱期を除き、4月と9月の2回、団体参詣と称して多くの信者によって巡礼されていた。
昭和51年(1976)頃迄続いていたようだ。(『那珂川町の歴史探訪』より)

- Fukuoka

01 - 大徳寺 - 千手観音 - Daitoku-Ji - Senju Kannon
02 - 大徳寺 - 聖観音 - Daitoku-Ji - Sho Kannon
03 - 大徳寺 - 毘沙門天 - Daitoku-Ji - Bishamonten
04 - 浦ノ原観音堂 - 弥勒菩薩 - Uranoharum Kannon Hall - Miroku Bosatsu
05 - 千手観音 - 場所がわからない - unknown - Senju Kannon
06 - 延命地蔵 - 場所がわからない - Enmei Jizo - place unknown
07 - 不動明王 - 場所がわからない - Fudo Myo-O - place unknown
08 - 松木観音堂 - 千手観音 - 場所がわからない - Matsuki Kannon Hall - Senju Kannon
09 - 真教寺 - 千部地蔵 - Shin-Kyo-Ji - 1000 Jizo Bosatsu -

10 - 下梶原地蔵堂 - 地蔵菩薩 - Jizo Hall Shimokajiwara - Jizo
11 - 下梶原東薬師堂 - 薬師如来 - Shimokajiwara Yakushi Hall - Yakushi Nyorai
12 - 下梶原大日堂 - 大日如来 - Shimokajiwara Dainichi Hall - Dainichi Nyorai
13 - 下梶原西観音堂 - 十一面観音 - Shimokajiwara Nishi Kannon Hall - Juichimen Kannon
14 - 弥勒堂 - 弥勒菩薩 - Mirokudo Hall - Miroku Bosatsu
15 - ? - 不動明王 -場所がわからない - unknown - Fudo Myo-O - place unknown
16 - 上梶原薬師堂 - 薬師如来 Kamikajiwara Yakushi Hall - Yakushi Nyorai -
17 - 毘沙門堂 - 毘沙門天 - Bishamon Hall - Bishamonten
18 - 辯才天堂 - 弁財天 - Benzaiten Hall - Benzaiten
19 - 上梶原地蔵堂 - 地蔵菩薩 - Jizo Hall Kamikajiwara

20 - 上梶原観音堂 - 普賢菩薩 Kamikajiwara Kannon Hall - Fugen Bosatsu
21 - 豊前坊 - 虚空蔵菩薩 / 地蔵菩薩 - Buzenbo - Fukuzo Bosatsu / Jizo Bosatsu
22 - 埋金地蔵堂 - 地蔵菩薩 - Umegane Jizo Hall - Jizo Bosatsu
23 - 埋金不動堂 - 不動明王 - Umegane Fudo Hall - Fudo Myo-O
24 - ? - 地蔵菩薩 -場所がわからない - unknown - Jizo Bosatsu - place unknown
25 - ? - 大日如来 / 不動明王 - 場所がわからない - unknown - Dainichi Nyorai / Fudo Myo-O - place unknown
26 - ? - 地蔵菩薩 - 場所がわからない - unknown - Jizo Bosatsu - place unknown
27 - ? - 将軍菩薩 - 場所がわからない - unknown - Shogun Jizo - place unknown
28 - ? - 薬師如来 - 場所がわからない - unknown - Yakushi Nyorai - place unknown

29 - 役行者 / (千手観音)- 場所がわからない - En no Gyoja (Senju Kannon) - place unknown

30 - ? - 地蔵菩薩 - 場所がわからない - Jizo Bosatsu - place unknown
31 - ? - 薬師如来 - 場所がわからない - Yakushi Nyorai - place unknown
32 - ? - 釈迦如来 - 場所がわからない - Shaka Nyorai - place unknown
33 - 一ノ瀬薬師堂 - 薬師如来 - Ichinose Yakushi Hall - Yakushi Nyorai
34 - ? - 不動明王 - 場所がわからない - Fudo Myo-O - place unknown
35 - ? - 弘法大師 / 薬師如来 - 場所がわからない - Kobo Daishi / Yakushi Nyorai - place unknown
36 - 立江寺 - 地蔵菩薩 - Tatsue-Ji - Jizo Bosatsu
37 - ? - 聖観音 - 場所がわからない - Sho Kannon - place unknown
38 - 山神社 - 舟地蔵 - Yama Jinja - Funa Jizo
39 - ? - 聖観音 - 場所がわからない - Sho Kannon - place unknown

40 - 垂乳根薬師 - 薬師如来 - Tarachine Yakushi - Yakushi Nyorai
41 - 五ケ山釈迦堂 - 釈迦如来 - Gokayama Shakado Hall - Shaka Nyorai
42 - 道善馬頭観世音菩薩 - 馬頭観世音菩薩 - Dozen - Bato Kannon
43 - 道善地蔵菩薩 - 地蔵菩薩 - Dozen - Jizo Bosatsu
44 - 薬師如来 - 場所がわからない - Yakushi Nyorai - place unknown
45 - 将軍地蔵(奥の院あり) - 場所がわからない - Shogun Jizo - place unknown
46 - 地蔵菩薩 - 場所がわからない - Jizo Bosatsu - place unknown
47 - 延命地蔵堂 - 延命地蔵尊 - Enmei Jizo Hall - Enmei Jizo
48 - 薬師地蔵尊 - 薬師如来 - Yakushi Jizo - Yakushi Nyorai
49 - 薬師如来 - 場所がわからない - Yakushi Nyorai - place unknown

50 - 広瀬地蔵堂 - 地蔵菩薩 - Hirose Jizo Hall - Jizo Bosatsu
51 - 薬師如来 - 場所がわからない - Yakushi Nyorai - place unknown
52 - 薬師如来 - 場所がわからない - Yakushi Nyorai - place unknown
53 - 薬師如来 - 場所がわからない - Yakushi Nyorai - place unknown
54 - 薬師如来 - 場所がわからない - Yakushi Nyorai - place unknown
55 - 大山祇神社 - 薬師如来 - Oyamazumi Shrine - Yakushi Nyorai
56 - 不動明王 - 場所がわからない - Fudo Myo-O - place unknown
57 - 西畑不動堂 - 不動明王 - Nishihata Fudo Hall - Fudo Myo-O
58 - 別所阿弥陀石仏 - 阿弥陀如来 - Bessho Amida Sekibutsu - Amida Nyorai
59 - 別所毘沙門寺 - 毘沙門天 - Bessho Bishamon-Ji - Bishamonten

60 - 別所薬師堂 - 薬師如来 - Bessho Yakushi Hall - Yakushi Nyorai
61 - 将軍地蔵 - 場所がわからない - Shogun Jizo - place unknown
62 - 院使寺跡 - 聖観音 - remains of Inshi-Ji - Sho Kannon
63 - 准胝観音堂 - 准胝観音 Jundei Kannon Hall - Jundei Kannon
64 - 釈迦堂 - 釈迦如来 - Shakado Hall - Shaka Nyorai
65 - 山田薬師堂 - 薬師如来 - Yamada Yakushi Hall - Yakushi Nyorai
66 - 将軍地蔵 - 場所がわからない - Shogun Jizo - place unknown
67 - 十一面観音 - 場所がわからない - Juichimen Kannon - place unknown
68 - 山田母子観音堂 - 母子観世音菩薩 - Yamada Boshi Kannon Hall - Boshi Kannon
69 - 山田阿弥陀堂 - 阿弥陀如来 Yamada Amida Hall - Amida Nyorai

70 - 山田不動堂 - 不動明王- Yamada Fudo Hall - Fudo Myo-O
71 - 山田観音堂 - 千手観音 - Yamada Kannon Hall - Senju Kannon
72 - 下梶原東観音堂 - 馬頭観音 - Shimokajiwara Kannon Hall - Bato Kannon
73 - 安徳観音堂 - 聖観世音菩薩 / 十一面観世音菩薩 - Antoku Kannon Hall - Sho Kannon / Juichimen Kannon
74 - 薬師如来 - 場所がわからない - Yakushi Nyorai - place unknown
75 - 聖観音 / 地蔵菩薩 - 場所がわからない - Sho Kannon / Jizo Bosatsu - place unknown
76 - 天神社 - 薬師如来 / 聖観音 - Tenjinsha - Yakushi Nyorai / Sho Kannon
77 - 後野薬師堂 - 薬師如来 - Gono Yakushi Hall - Yakushi Nyorai
78 - 78番札所 - 如意輪観音 Pilgrim Temple 78 - Nyoirin Kannon
79 - 五郎丸地蔵堂 - 地蔵菩薩 - Goromaru Jizo Hall - Jizo Bosatsu

80 - 今光観音堂 - 千手観音 - Imamitsu Kannon Hall - Senju Kannon
81 - 聖観音 - 場所わからない - Sho Kannon - place unknown
82 - 五郎丸薬師堂 - 薬師如来 - Goromaru Yakushi Hall - Yakushi Nyorai
83 - 五郎丸観音堂 - 子安観音 - Goromaru Kannon Hall - Koyasu Kannon
84 - 千手観音。場所がわからない - Senju Kannon - place unknown
85 - 弘法大師(聖観音)。場所がわからない - Kobo Daishi (Sho Kannon) - place unknown
86 - 不動明王・弘法大師。場所がわからない - Fudo Myo-O / Kobo Daishi - place unknown
87 - 十一面観音。場所がわからない- Juichimen Kannon - place unknown
88 - 大徳寺 - 十一面観音 - Daitoku-Ji - Juichimen Kannon

There are also 20 番外 Bangai Temples.

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Yakushi legends 06 Kagawa to Kochi

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and
legends from Kagawa 香川県 / Kanagawa 神奈川県 / Kochi 高知県


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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Kagawa 香川県

kubikire uma クビキレウマ horse with the head cut off
This Yokai horse makes a sound like shango-shango シャンゴシャンゴ and is also called
shango-shango uma シャンゴシャンゴウマ.
It is often seen at a nawa-suji ナワスジ road where Yokai pass along.
Once a man stayed at the Yakushi Do hall near the lake. When he had to go out for a pee at night, he saw a small horse that grew larger and larger. When he had to bend his head to look up to it, it suddenly disappeared. Then another small horse showed up and the man got so afraid, he run away for his dear life!

. kubikire Yokai legend from Tokushima 徳島県 .
This Headless Horse Yokai is well known in many parts of Japan.

. madoo 魔道 - まどう Mado, road where monsters pass .
ma no toorimichi 魔の通り道 / masuji, ma-suji 魔筋 //mamono no toorimichi 魔物の通り道
nawasuji, nawa-suji 縄筋

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三豊郡 Mitoyo district 詫間町 Takuma

If a woman wants to help her ill husband or child or has another wish she needs to have fulfilled urgently, she goes to the 薬師堂 Yakushi Do hall, cuts her hair and gives it as an offering.

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仲多度郡 Naka Tado district まんのう町 Manno village

chichi Yakushi 乳薬師 Yakushi and the breast
There is a Yakushi statue carved by Gyoki Bosatsu. Women who do not have enough milk to feed their babies come here to pray. And if all went well and the child is healthy, mothers bring a small replica of a breast in gratitude.


source : ameblo.jp/kushihiko

There is another shopping street and 薬師堂 Yakushi Do Hall nearby.
「乳薬師」交流拠点に-赤門筋商店街
「赤門七佛薬師堂」 - 香川県善通寺市善通寺町


source : www.shikoku-np.co.jp




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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Kanagawa 神奈川県



日向薬師 Hinata Yakushi Temple, Isegahara
Founded in 716 by Gyoki Bosatsu.

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江ノ島 Enoshima

The 江ノ島の薬師堂 Yakushi Hall has been built by 日詰五郎俊衡 Hizume Goro Toshihira.
This Yakushi does not like dogs and cocks. If anyone would keep them as pets, the whole island would suffer. Lately a young person did not follow the old sayings and kept some, but he soon suffered great difficulties.

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川崎市 Kawasaki 中原区 Nakahara

yoogooseki ヨウゴウセキ 影向石 Yogoseki Stone with Yakushi Image
(Eigoseki, Yogoishi)
In the year 739 天平11年, 光明皇后 Emperess Komyo became ill. Her husband, Shomu Tenno 聖武天皇 (701 – 756) had a dream one night: A monk came to his bedside and told him, the village of Tachibana in Musashi no Kuni 武蔵国橘 (now Kanagawa) there was a sacred spot with a sacred stone where people prayed to a statue of Yakushi Nyorai to be cured.
The emperor sent Saint Gyoki Bosatsu to pray there - and - the Empress was cured.
Later there were more stories about people being cured there.



One year later he ordered a temple being built there, Yoogooji 影向寺 Yogo-Ji
威徳山月光院影向寺 / 川崎市宮前区野川419 - 419 Nogawa, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki
- Homepage of the temple
- source : yougouji.org

. Empress Komyo 光明皇后 Komyo Kogo .
(701 - 760)



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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Kochi 高知県 - Tosa 土佐



清滝寺 Kiyotaki-Ji
Takaoka, Tosa, Kōchi

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. O-Fudo sama from Takaoka 高岡の不動明王.
Fudo Myo-O stands next to his friend, Yakushi Nyorai.

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長岡郡 Nagaoka district 西豊永村 Nishi-Toyonaga

tsue 杖 walking staff
When Gyoki Bosatsu came to the Yakushi Do Hall in Nishi-Toyonaga on his way to climb the mountain,
he planted his walking staff into the ground. It grew larger and larger into a tree and is called
sakasa sugi 逆さ杉 / 逆杉 upside-down cedar tree

. Gyooki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu .
(668 - 749)

. sakasa sugi 逆さ杉 from Aomori .
sacred to 山の神 Yamanokami and 狗賓 Guhin.


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Yakushi Miyagi Legends

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. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru .
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Kinoshita no Yakushi 木ノ下の薬師 Yakushi from Kinoshita village
nabe Yakushi 鍋薬師 Yakushi and the cooking pot
nure Yakushi 濡れ薬師 Yakushi who got wet
Shiga no Yakushi 志賀の薬師 Yakushi from Shiga village
shio no Yakushi 塩の薬師 Yakushi and Salt
sugi Yakushi 杉薬師 Yakushi and the cedar tree


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nabe Yakushi 鍋薬師 Yakushi and the cooking pot

黒川郡 Kurokawa 大和町 Yamato village

In the year 1592 Lord Date Masamune led his troups from 岩出山城 Iwadeyama Castle toward the capital of Kyoto. To honor the God of War 軍神 with a blood offering 血祭 at the forest 七ツ森 he begun a hunt for a sacrifice animal, but they did not catch anything. Masamune got angry and begun to climb up Mount 大森山 Omoriyama. From there he saw something black in the distance.
When he asked his retainer 片倉小十郎 Katakura Kojuro, he said it was Yakushi Nyorai.
The angry Masamune ordered a shot at it and broke the breast of the Nabe Yakushi, but at the same time blood was running out of his own nose and did not stop.
Kojuro bowed many times 三拝九拝 and then used the leaf of the bamboo grass (sasa 笹) to stop the nose bleeding.
The anger of Masamune was also calmed down now and he climbed down the mountain. He then ordered the mountain to become his special hunting ground.
- - - One version of the legend says:
The arrow came flying back at Masamune and hit his eye, causing him to loose his eyesight.


Ōmori-yama 大森山薬師如来 Omoiryama Yakushi Nyorai is now a famous camping spot in Miyagi.
The mountain is 226 meters high. A festival in honor of "The Buddha of Healing" is held.
The mountain is also called 笹倉山 Sasakura-yama at 七つ森 Nanatsumori .

The grave of Masamune is at the temple 大義山 覚照寺 Kakusho-Ji
宮城県黒川郡大和町宮床字大椚69 / Okunugi-69 Miyatoko, Taiwa, Kurokawa District, Miyagi


. Date Masamune 伊達政宗 (1567 - 1636) .


宮城県仙台市若林区木ノ下2丁目8-28

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nure Yakushi 濡れ薬師 Yakushi who got wet

Miyagi - 柴田郡 柴田町 Shibata

At the village Tsukinoki 槻木 there had been a long period of sunshine and drought.
The villagers gathered at the swamp 鰌沼 Dojo-Numa and decided to make an offering of a village girl to the Dragon king 竜神 as a rain ritual 雨乞い (amagoi).
The beautiful O-Yoshi およし agreed to be the victim, because she was upset with her first love, Kensaku 勘作 and felt very unhappy with her life.
On her way to the swamp, O-Yoshi she met an itinerant priest. When he heard her story he suggested that the Dragon God would not be content with her unhappy sacrifice and they would better give him a statue of Yakushi Nyorai.
When they threw the statue in the water, Yakushi got wet and then - - suddenly a strong rain began to fall and the village was saved.
They build a Yakushi Hall 薬師堂 and a small retreat for O-Yoshi who would now serve Yakushi Nyorai at the temple.


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Gunma 高崎市南八幡 - Takasaki Town Minami Hachiman

Near the fence of the assembly hall and the graveyard of the Uehara family 上原家墓地 there is a cherry tree. Below it there is a stone with the inscription of 濡れ薬師.



Since olden times, this Yakushi san has been known to heal diseases of the eyes and many people, who got healed by his power, come here to pray again in gratitude. They also made other small stone statues as offerings, now there are more than 30 beside the Yakushi stone.

But why is it called "Yakushi who gets wet" ?
Well, once there was a good man who built a roof over the stone to keep it dry and protect it from the rain. But then . . . the home of this good man burned down.
So people thought the stone and Yakushi with it were ment to get wet.

- source and more photos : 南八幡 History

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shio no Yakushi 塩の薬師 Yakushi and Salt

Miyagi 名取市 Natori 塩手 Shiote

Once upon a time
some say it was in the year 647, at the bottom of Mount Shiodeyama 塩出山 there was a spring with salty water. An old priest 老僧 and 12 acolytes boiled the water to make salt and distributed it to the villagers.
Because of this beneficent salt, all villagers were healed from their illnesses and became healthy.
The old priest was seen as an incarnation of Yakushi Nyorai and thus the name given to him.
The place where the salt water welled up was called Shiogawara 塩河原 and the place where they boiled it down was called Shiode 塩出 - "where the salt comes from".

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Shio Yakushi Doo 塩薬師堂 Hall for the Shio Yakushi 塩薬師
This Hall is beside the pond Shio no Ike 塩ノ池.

Once upon a time
during a wildfire most of the hamlet was burned down, but the statue of Yakushi flew high in the sky and was saved. It landed safely in a pine tree nearby. So the greatful villagers build a hall for him there and called him the "Salt Yakushi" 塩薬師.

The seated statue we see now is from the Muromachi period, covered with lacquer and then gold foil. It is seated on a lotus throne.



at the temple 塩福山永禅寺 Eizen-Ji  
宮城県名取市愛島塩手字仮宿46 

The main statue is Shaka Nyorai.

There is also a statue of Fudo Myo-O 大聖不動明王  



The statue is carved with one knife 一刀彫 and one among the three famous standing statues of Fudo Myo-O 不動三尊立像 in Tohoku.
- source : sekishin.info


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Kinoshita no Yakushi 木ノ下の薬師 Yakushi from Kinoshita

陸奥国分寺 Mutsu Kokubun-Ji  薬師堂 Yakushi-Do Hall
宮城県仙台市若林区木ノ下2丁目8-28 / 2 Chome-8-28 Kinoshita, Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai



This is the provincial temple of former Mutsu Province. The Hall for Yakushi 薬師堂 Yakushidō is an Important Cultural Property.
After its first construction around 740, the temple was destroyed in 1189. Lord Date Masamune rebuilt the complex in 1607, including the Yakushi Hall.
In 1903 it was designated an Important Cultural Property.

When Date Masamune was involved in a severe fight with 大崎義隆 Osaki Yoshitaka (1548 - 1603) it seemed difficult for his forces to win. Then suddenly 48 brave monk-soldiers 法師武者 appeared from nowhere and fought with the enemy, so in the end Masamune was victorious.
When he asked where these soldiers had come from, he was told
"From Kinoshita in Miyagino 宮城野" and the soldiers vanished as fast as they had appeared.

At Miyagino there was only a group of stone markers in a small stone sanctuary, dedicated to Yakushi Nyorai.
That night Masamune had a dream telling him that the soldiers had come on orders of Yakushi Nyorai to help him.

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朝鮮の役に政宗の軍勢が肥前の名護屋を出航したとき、薬師如来が支那に学問修行しにいく僧に化身して便乗して玄界灘を無事乗り切るよう保護し、帰還のときも同乗して守ってくれた。往復ともに僧は「陸奥木ノ下の僧」とのみ答えて名を言わなかった。





Daruma ko ame 達磨コ飴 / 達磨子飴 Daruma lollipop
A kind of candy in red color and the form of Daruma san.
On the seventh day of the first month and the third day of the third month of the old lunar year during the festival of Yakushi お薬師さん this sweet was sold. People who eat it will be healthy all year long.
After buying it you have to roll it up the stairs to the Daruma statue in the Yakushi Hall 薬師堂 and then offer it to the 神棚 Shelf of the Gods in your own home with the wish for the child or children to grow up healthy and well.
This custom was very popular until about 1910. Another type was a small horse sweet.

. 仙台のだるま飴 Daruma sweets from Sendai .


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Shiga no Yakushi 志賀の薬師 Yakushi from Shiga village

岩沼市 Iwanuma 志賀 Shiga

Temple Ganzooji, Ganzōji 岩蔵寺 Ganzo-Ji
Iwanuma-shi, Shiga, Yakushi−9




慈覚大師 Jigaku Daishi founded the temple in 861, bringing a statue of Yakushi Nyorai to be venerated here. During the construction there came a group of skilled carpenters from Hida and promised to build the hall in one night.
But the villagers imitated the crow of a rooster long before daybreak, when the carpenters had just added one ceiling beam 天井板. They were quite angry and left the village.
In front of the hall were the other beams waiting to be fixed and between them was a stone looking like a snake 蛇石. It was formed when an oxen pulling the wooden beams for the building stumbled.

The temple is also famous for its ema 絵馬 votive tablets.
In the hall is a special ema painted by 狩野法眼元信 Kano Motonobu (1476 - 1559).
The oxen on this painting did not have any reins, so he escaped from the painting and damaged the fields in front of the temple. Therefore Motonobu came back and painted some reins to keep the oxen in place on the wooden tablet.

The statue of Yakushi in the Yakushi Hall 薬師堂 is said to be carved by Jigaku Daishi himself. It is a secret statue preserved in a small sanctuary 厨子 and never shown.


. Ennin - Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 . - (794 – 864)


. Hida no Takumi 飛騨工匠 Hida’s Master Builders .

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sugi Yakushi 杉薬師 Yakushi and the cedar tree
Miyagi, 栗原郡 Kurihara 築館町 Tsukidate


source : www.pref.miyagi.jp
The seated statue from the Heian period is 121.2 cm high and made of keyaki ケヤキ zelkova wood.
It is an important cultural property of the town 重要文化財.

Long ago in the Tenpyo period (729 - 749), when the Empress 孝謙天皇 Koken Tenno (718 - 770) was very ill and asked his diviners for advise, they told him:
"In Mutsu 陸奥 there is a very very high cedar tree 大杉 and its long branches produced a shadow until your living quarters, causing your illness."
So he ordered one of his ministers, 某(なにがし) the Dainagon Nanigashi, to have the tree cut down.
The minister found a huge cedar tree at the village of Tsukidate and had it cut down. From the cutting surface blood spilled on the ground. But on the next morning all was healed and the tree was standing there as before.
However many times they cut it down, the same thing happened. Then a diviner told them to prepare a rope of the reeds in a field North-East to the cedar tree and cover the cutting wound with it.
The splinters from cutting flew in all directions and were soon gone.
Finally the illness of the Empress was healed.
So he ordered to have a temple build over the stump of the cedar tree. Later Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 passed here and had a statue of Yakushi Nyorai placed on the altar.


The temple, built in 760, was called Soorinji 双林寺 Sorin-Ji.


宮城県栗原市築館薬師台双林寺
1-1 Tsukidateyakushidai, Kurihara, Miyagi

The temple became quite famous and had more than 48 sub-temples  in its compound.
But during the Middle Ages it declined through fire and fighting.
In 1591 it was re-built on orders of Date Masamune.
In the compound is the new hall 薬師瑠璃殿, / 薬師堂 - Ruridono 瑠璃殿
where the statue is now called
「お薬師様」 O-Yakushi sama, 「杉薬師様」 Sugi Yakushi Sama.

Every year on November 3 there is a special festival at the Yakushi Hall.
Tsukidate Yakushi Matsuri つきだて薬師まつり, also called
Fujiwara Ichizoku Yakushi Matsuri 藤原一族薬師まいり Yakushi Festival of the Fujiwara clan.

The festival is based on another legend of Kurihara town, the
しづはた姫物語 Shizuhata Hime Monogatari.

When the princess of the Fujiwara clan (Shizuhata, later 北の方 Kita no Kata) was on her way to Hiraizumi, she became ill on the way and prayed at the Cedar Tree Yakushi temple. She got healed on the spot and later, when she was with the Fujiwara clan, she had her retainers come to pray at this temple in a long parade.

The region of present-day Kurihara was part of the ancient Mutsu Province 陸奥の国, and has been settled since the Jomon period by the Emishi.
During the later portion of the Heian period, the area was ruled by the Northern Fujiwara. During the Sengoku period, the area was contested by various samurai clans before it came under the control of the Date clan of Sendai.

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Gunma 群馬県 - 子持村 Komochi village

tsuru 鶴 a crane
The carving of a crane at 双林寺 the Temple Sorin-Ji came to live at night and devastated the fields.
The hunters had to shoot it down.

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Gunma 渋川市 Shibukawa city

Tadanori sakasazakura 忠度逆さ桜 the upside-down cherry tree of Tadanori
The cherry tree at 双林寺 the Temple Sorin-Ji is called "upside-down cherry tree".
Once a zatoo 座頭 blind minstrel appeared in front of the second priest of the temple.
He recited from the Heike Monogatari 平家物語 Tale of the Heike clan.
He quoted the poem
行暮れて木の下蔭をと宿せば花ぞ今宵のあるじならまし
and then disappeared.
The priest thought it must have been the spirit of Tadanori.
Tadanori had appeared on a white horse and thrown his whip made from cherry wood toward the sky and disappeared.
The whip had taken roots and became the cherry tree.

行暮れて木の下蔭をと宿せば花ぞ今宵のあるじならまし
"Were I, still traveling as night falls,
to make a sheltering tree my inn,
then would my host tonight be
the blossoms themselves?"
. Taira no Tadanori 平忠度 (1144 – 1184) .
. The Tale of the Heike (平家物語 Heike Monogatari) .

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Gunma 渋川市 Shibukawa city 雙林寺 Sorijni

The Seven Wonders from Temple Sorin-Ji 双林寺の七不思議
sakasa sakura 逆さ桜 Upside-down cherry tree
一つ木拍子
蛇頭水
山門の小僧
底無しの井戸
繋ぎ榧
赤門の鶏

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Monsters, legends and Yakushi 妖怪データベース
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. O-Mamori お守り Amulets and Talismans .

. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru .
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Just when I had finished this article, with the words Miyagino and Wakabayashi still fresh in my mind, there was an article in the Japan Times
about the reconstruction efforts after the earthquake of March 11, 2011 -

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Innovation helps Tohoku’s tsunami-hit farmers bounce back
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SENDAI –
Even before a tsunami swamped fields east of Sendai in March 2011, Chikako Sasaki and her husband, a rice farmer, had dreamed of starting a business selling food made from their own produce. . . .
. . . The company in Wakabayashi Ward also has a processing facility nearby, and is planning to expand its other activity of making boxed lunches for convenience stores and public events.
. . . The company, which began operating almost two years ago in Miyagino Ward with capital from five young local farmers and disaster relief grants and loans, employs around 40 people and is branching out into organic vegetables too.
. . . Drainage pumping stations were quickly restored after the disaster with new ones now being built to double capacity needed to cope with the 50 cm of ground subsidence caused by the quake.
To cover the extra cost of the new pumping stations, the Sendai’s city government has installed solar panels near its agriculture and horticulture center in Wakabayashi.
With a capacity to generate power for 150 households, the solar plant has recently begun producing electricity, which is sold to the grid.
- source : Japan Times April 01, 2015

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