2022/04/30

Choanji Yakushi Karegawa

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Chooanji 長安寺 Choan-Ji, Karegawa
金剛山 Kongozan 長安寺 Choanji

大分県豊後高田市加礼川635 / Oita, Bungotakada city, Karegawa

The main statue is 千手観音菩薩 Senju Kannon Bosatsu.

The temple was founded in the Heian Period (794 - 1185) in 718.
In the Storage Hall there are many important cultural properties.

鬼会面 Demon Masks
国東半島で行われてきた「修正鬼会」の鬼は二つのタイプがあります。
①鈴鬼 Suzu Oni
②荒鬼 Ara Oni (更に「荒鬼」「災払鬼」「鎮鬼」に分類)


長安寺 仁王像 Nio Statue
長安寺仁王像 Nio Statue

Togodani no rekishi 都甲谷の歴史 History of Togodani
 本市の都甲谷には、古代には条里制の水田が開かれ、平安時代には都甲荘という荘園が開かれました。それ以降、都甲谷には様々な文化が花開き、悠久の歴史と豊富な文化財が現在にも残されています。
 豊後高田市教育委員会では、そうした都甲谷の歴史を地域の方に学んでいただける資料を作成しましたので、ご自由にご活用ください。
https://www.city.bungotakada.oita.jp/page/page_04710.html

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Bungotakada / Bungo Takada
Welcome to the city of Bungo Takada, a corner of Japan with a timeless quality and superb natural and cultural attractions. Located on Kyushu’s Kunisaki Peninsula, the city’s distance from the historic capitals of Kyoto and Tokyo has helped keep its many unique aspects free from the spoils of modern uniformity. Wherever you turn, you’ll find dramatic natural landscapes and the remains of an extraordinary culture that saw the merging of Buddhism and Japan’s indigenous religious beliefs over 1,300 years ago.
Bungo Takada serves as a cultural and historical hub for exploring the peninsula. The city stretches inland from the populated coastal area and rises through lush agricultural farmland into low, craggy mountains that hide valleys with landscapes unchanged for a thousand years. The volcanic rocks in the mountains have been the perfect medium for the chisels of stone carvers for centuries, and remarkable examples of their artistic skills are found in temple gateways, on awe-inspiring cliff faces and, just as often, on the roadside or in the garden of a local family. (It is said that some 70 percent of Japan’s Buddhist statuary can be found on the Kunisaki Peninsula.) There is something magical about this area’s close links to antiquity, at once captivating and mystical. ...
Rokugo Manzan: A Heritage of Religious Acceptance
Sharing Space and Deities
Rokugo Manzan Culture
Fukiji Temple - Fukiji Odo
Maki Odo
Tennenji Temple/Kawanaka Fudo
Kumano Magaibutsu
Mineiri
Tashibunosho
Matama Beach
Nagasakibana sunflowers
Shujo Oni-E Ritual 修正鬼会 at Tennenji Temple
Horan Enya
Hadaka Festival
Kusachi Dance
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. Rokugo Manzan 六郷満山 Kunisaki Oita .

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This temple is Nr. 09 of the pilgrimage
. 49 Yakushi Temples in Kyushu 九州四十九薬師霊場 .

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

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2022/04/28

Yakuoji Kannon Oba

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. 小机領三十三所子歳観音霊場 Kozukue Nedoshi 33 Kannon .
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Yakuooji 薬王寺 Yakuo-Ji, Oba
引仁山 / 弘仁山 Koninzan 衆芳院 Jiho-In 薬王寺 Yakuo-Ji


神奈川県横浜市青葉区大場町259 / Kanagawa, Yokohama city, Aoba ward, Oba town

The Kannon statue is 正観音 Sho Kannon.
The main statue is 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai.
At his side are 釈迦如来 Shaka Nyorai and
阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai.

The date of the founding is not clear.
It was a sub-temple of 王禅寺 Ozen-Ji.
The temple was restored in 1684.
It was lost to a fire in the Meiji period (1868 - 1912).
After the fire, it was relocated to the present site.


Steps leading to the temple

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This temple is Nr. 21 of the pilgrimage
. 小机領三十三所子歳観音霊場 Kozukue Nedoshi 33 Kannon .
nedoshi 子年 (ねずみどし) refers to the year of the rat, 鼠 nezumi.

. 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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いわき市 Iwaki city 長橋町 Nagahashi town

Inari Myojin no keshin 稲荷明神の化神 the incarnation of the Deity Inari Myojin
If there is a strong rain, the bridge 尼子橋 Amagobashi comes under water and can not be crossed over.
When the wife of 平則道 Taira no Norimichi (1008 - ?). Lady Tokuni, saw this, she felt great pain in her heart.
One day, an old man with white hair passed her hut with a sigh, so she invited him inside.
As they talked, the old man said he wented to build a new bridge and asked for her help.
The old man built a new bridge in just 30 day.
After passing over the bridge, the old man said good bye and left.
Tokuni looked after him, but he suddenly disappeared near 薬王寺 the Temple Yakuo-Ji.
Searching for him, she found a hole with some offerings of mochi 餅 rice cakes.
She thought he must have been an incarnation of 稲荷明神 Inari Myojin.
The deity was now called 尼子稲荷明神 Amago Inari Myojin and became the warden of the bridge.

福島県いわき市四倉町薬王寺塙74 Yakuo-Ji




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出石郡 Izushi district 高橋村 Takahashi village

. Hidarugami ヒダル神 / ひだる神 / ヒダルカミ the Hunger Gods .
When walking down the 登尾峠 Pass Tobi Toge, there was a place where Hidarugami loomed.
A few years ago a merchant passing here, was bewitched by the deity.
Another person from 薬王寺 the Temple Yakuo-Ji was also bewitched.

出石 薬王寺




....................................................................... Tokushima 徳島県 

Gyoki no toku 行基の徳 the virtue of Gyoki
On the road from 薬王寺 the Temple Yakuo-Ji in 阿波国海部郡比和左村 to 土佐国 Tosa (now 高知県 Kochi) there is a retreat called
Gyoki An 行基庵 Gyoki Hermitage.
Once a mackarel merchant passed here and Gyoki asked for one fish as an offering.
But the merchant would not give him one.
Now Gyoki sung a song saying the horse of the merchant would fall ill.
And indeed, the horse fell ill.
The merchant was shocked and apologized.
Now Gyoki sung a song saying the horse would get well ...
and indeed, it got well immediately.
The story spread around and many people came to pray here and made a statue of Gyoki.
. Gyooki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu . - (668 - 749)

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2022/04/26

Suga Shrine Izumo

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Suga Jinja 須我神社 Shrine Suga Jinja, Izumo


島根県雲南市大東町須賀260 / 260 Daitocho Suga, Unnan, Shimane

The Deities in residence are Susano-O and Kushinada Hime.

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Suga Shrine [須賀神社]
is a little off the beaten path.
Japan’s First Capital
Ironically, this somewhat remote area is the mythological first capital of Japan, as denoted by this sign:

- Shrine Grounds
So what is about this relatively small shrine out in the middle of almost nowhere?
Why did we both going through all the trouble to get here?
Speaking from the mythological of the Kojiki, Suga Shrine is where Susano-o and Kushinada lived
after the defeat of Yamata no Orochi.
Upon arriving here Susano-o felt rather inspired and recited the first poem in Japanese literature.
This same poem is on a large rock just inside of the shrine. Roughly translated it reads:

In Izumo, where the clouds form,
I see a fence of clouds.
To protect my wife, I too, built a fence.
These clouds are as my fence.


From our perspective it is so cool to be in not only Japan’s first recorded capital (even if it is just a myth), but also the place where a mythical god recited the first poem in Japanese literature.

Ema of Suga Shrine depicting Susano-o and Kushinada

Just behind the haiden is the the hoden, the main shrine building,
where Susano-o, his wife Kushinada, and their child, Yashimajinumi no kami, are enshrined.

Yakumo Yama
Sometimes shrines in Japan have two parts; that main shrine rests at the foot of the mountain, but another part of the shrine that lies near the top of the mountain. The part of the shrine at the top of the mountain is called a okunomiya [奥の宮], and that is what we were hoping to get a glace of. In the case of Suga Shrine, the okunomiya is on top of Yakumoyama.
If you head back to the road with the signs for the shrine, you will see that that road it keeps going. You will need to follow that same road for quite some time before you see another sign on your left that will point you in the direction of Yakumo yama. It is not all that far of a walk, about three kilometers or so to reach the mountain, which albeit isn’t that big.
I encourage anyone going out that way to plan time for walking up Yakumo yama.
The surrounding landscape is really lovely and it is not a hard hike at all.
Take a few things with you for a light lunch and it would be a great outing.
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This Shrine is Nr. 16 of the
. Izumo no Kuni Shinbutsu Pilgrimage 出雲國神仏霊場編 .

. kami 神 Shinto deities .

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2022/04/25

Soenji Yakushi Kanda

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Sooenji 相円寺 / 相圓寺 Soen-Ji, Kanda
内尾山 Uchiozan 宝蔵院 Hozo-In 相円寺 Soenji

福岡県京都郡苅田町馬場268 / Fukuoka, Miyako district, Kanda, Baba

The Yakushi statue is a seated Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来座像.
It was carved by 行基 Gyoki and is 272 cm high.
. Gyoki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 (668 - 749) .
It is now seated in a limestone cave on top of the mountain.

- Chant of the temple
おん ころころ せんだり まとうぎ そわか

The temple was founded on request of 聖武天皇 Emperor Shomu Tenno (701 - 794) by priest 光林坊 Korin-Bo.
The temple is located on top of a mountain, with more than 250 steps to climb up.
It is the most difficult to visit among the 47 Yakushi temples in Kyushu.
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Emperor Shōmu 聖武天皇, Shōmu-tennō, (701 – June 4, 756) was the 45th emperor of Japan,
according to the traditional order of succession.
Shōmu's reign spanned the years 724 through 749, during the Nara period.
Shōmu had four Empresses and six Imperial sons and daughters.
Shōmu, a devout Buddhist, is best remembered for commissioning, in 743,
the sixteen-meter high statue of the Vairocana Buddha (the Daibutsu) in Tōdai-ji of Nara.
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This temple is Nr. 07 of the pilgrimage
. 49 Yakushi Temples in Kyushu 九州四十九薬師霊場 .

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

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2022/04/24

Tsuzuki Yakushi Pilgrimage

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Tsuzuki Tachibana Yakushi 都筑橘樹十二薬師霊場
12 Yakushi Temples in Tsuzuki



01 新照山蓮華寺 - 大日如来 - Dainichi Nyorai

02 超海山浄流寺 - 地蔵菩薩 - Jizo Bosatsu

. 03 星宿山正福寺 - 釈迦如来 - Shofuku-Ji - Shaka Nyorai .

04 勝田会館 - 清光寺 - 阿弥陀如来 - Amida Nyorai

05 大杉山龍福寺 Ryufuku-Ji - 十一面観世音 - Juichimen Kannon

. 06 養老山真福寺 Shinpuku-Ji - 千手観世音 - Senju Kannon .

07 長窪山正覚寺 - 虚空蔵菩薩 - Kokuzo Bosatsu

08 明王山自性院 - 不動明王 - Fudo Myo-O

09 青蓮山慈眼寺 - 聖観世音 - Sho Kannon

10 光明山大善寺 - 阿弥陀如来 - Amida Nyorai

11 綱島山東照寺 - 薬師如来 - Yakushi Nyorai

12 轉法山大乗寺 - 釈迦如来 - Shaka Nyorai


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. 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai Bhaisajyaguru .
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Shinpukuji Kannon Eda

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Shinpukuji 真福寺 / 眞福寺 Shinpuku-Ji, Eda
養老山 Yorozan 真福寺 Shinpukuji


神奈川県横浜市青葉区荏田町432-8 / Kanagawa, Yokohama city, Aoba ward, Eda town

The Kannon statue is 千手観音 Senju Kannon from the Heian period.
The main statue is a standing 阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai.
There is also a standing wooden statue of 釈迦如来 Shaka Nyorai.

The date of the founding is not clear.
In 1682, there was the grave of 法印定譽 Priest Joyo.
In 1921, 観音堂 the Kannon Hall was removed to its present location.
The Kannon Statue is an important cultural property.


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4月8日・8月17日 双盤念仏 Soban Nenbutsu, on Day 17 of April and August
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Also on the following pilgrimage :

. 都筑橘樹十二薬師霊場 Tsuzuki Tachibana 12 Yakushi Temples - Nr. 06 .

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This temple is Nr. 20 of the pilgrimage
. 小机領三十三所子歳観音霊場 Kozukue Nedoshi 33 Kannon .
nedoshi 子年 (ねずみどし) refers to the year of the rat, 鼠 nezumi.

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

. Senju Kannon 千手観音 Kannon with 11 faces and 1000 arms .


. Shinpukuji 真福寺 Shipuku-Ji, Sasame .
埼玉県戸田市笹目1-12-1 / Saitama, Toda city, Sasame / Fudo Myo-O and Yakushi Nyorai

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....................................................................... Aichi 愛知県  
岡崎市 Okasaki city

. Oni demon legends from Aichi 愛知県 .
Near 眞福寺 the Temple Shinpuku-Ji in 岩津村 Iwazu village.




....................................................................... Miyagi 宮城県 
仙台市 Sendai city 若林区 Wakabayashi ward

kubi 首 a head
One evening in winter, a young Samurai named 惣助 Sosuke walked from 荒町 Aramachi
on his way home past 眞福寺 the Temple Shinpuku-Ji.
Near the temple gate he met a beautiful woman. She begged him:
"I am the mistress of a man, who said he would killl me tonight. Please help me!"
The Samurai said he would help and went on home.
That night when he was in bed he heard a voice from the river:
"Help me, help me!"
He got up and went out, where he saw the head of a woman fly to the sky.

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2022/04/23

Kumano Taisha Izumo Yagumo

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Kumano Taisha 熊野大社 Grand Shrine of Kumano, Matsue
Izumo no Kuni Ichi no Miya 出雲国一之宮


島根県松江市八雲町熊野 / Shimane, Matsue city, Yagumo / Yakumo town, Kumano

The Deity in residence is Susano-o-no-mikoto.
Another name of the Deity is
Kaburogi-kumano-okami Kushi-mike-no-mikoto.
加夫呂伎熊野大神櫛御気野命(かぶろぎくまののおおかみくしみけぬ 
Kaburogi-kumano-no-okami-kushimikenu-no-mikoto.  
He is worshipped and respected as a God that connects happiness and prosperity to living beings.
He overcomes hardship and struggles to answer the prayers of the people and is
the God of creative and harmonizing powers that assure prosperity and happiness.
He is also known as the God of resurrection.
source : kumanotaisha.or.jp ...

The first shrine where fire was created.
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hi 火 fire


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The first shrine where fire was created
In ancient times, Kumano Taisha Shrine was known also as Izumo-no-kuni Ichi-no-miya,
which means it was the highest ranking shrine in the Izumo Region.
It is located 15km south of central Matsue in Yakumo Town.
From the road you can easily spot the concrete torii gate and the vermillion bridge that leads up to the shrine.
The deity enshrined here is Susano-o-no-mikoto who is well known through the eight-headed serpent “Yamata-no-Orochi” Iwami Kagura story.
This shrine is said to be the first shrine where fire was created.
On the shrine grounds is the Sanka-den hall, which is a structure with a thatched roof and cypress bark covered walls.
The 鑽火殿 Sanka-den Hall
houses two old-fashioned fire-kindling tools that are used in the annual Sanka-sai Fire Festival and inauguration ceremonies for the Chief Priests of Izumo Taisha Grand Shrine.
The biggest setsubun festivities in Matsue are said to be at Kumano Taisha Shrine.
From the Mai-den Hall, the open building, government officials and community representatives throw out beans and mochi to the crowd of participants.
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shuin 朱印 stamp

omamori お守り amulets
There are also other lucky items such as an en-musubi comb and en-musubi comb mobile phone strap
which symbolize the comb that Susano-o-no-mikoto gave to Kushinada Hime (Princess Inada Hime) as an engagement gift.

ema 絵馬 votive tablet

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- Yearly Festivals 年中行事 -

Hatsumode First Prayers of the New Year Jan 1st - 3rd 
Setsubun Spring Festival, Feb 3rd  
1st Day of Spring Risshun-risshi Festival, End of March 
Migushi-sai Comb Offering Festival April 13th, 
Chojyu-sai Longevity Ritual, April 29th,
Motomiya-sai (Climb to the original shrine), 4th Sunday in May,
Summer Purification Oharae/Nagoshi Ritual, June 30th
Reitai-sai Grand Festival, October 14th
Sankasai Fire Festival, October 15th
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More detailed information in my Festival blog
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This Shrine is Nr. 15 of the
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. Ichi no Miya, Ichinomiya 一の宮 Ichi no Miya shrines .

. Kumano Junisha Gongen 熊野十二社権現 12 Kumano Shrines .

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2022/04/22

Fukujuji Yakushi Kokura

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Fukujuji 福聚寺 Fukuju-Ji, Kokura
広壽山 Kojuzan 福聚寺 Fukujuji


福岡県北九州市小倉北区寿山町6-7 / Fukuoka, Kitakyushu city, Kokurakita ward, Juzan town

The main statue is 釈迦牟尼仏 Shakamuni Buddha.
. Shaka Nyorai 釈迦如来 Gautama Buddha, Shakyamuni .

- Chant of the temple

The temple was founded in 1665 on request of the first Lord of Kokura, 小笠原忠真 Ogasawara Tadazane (1596 - 1667)
as the bodaiji 菩提寺 family temple for his clan.
The founder was 即非如一 Priest Sokuhi Nyoitsu (1616 - 1671).
In 1679, the second Lord 小笠原忠雄 Ogasawara Tadakatsu (1647 - 1725) had it removed to its present location.
In 1866, during the war of 長州藩 the Choshu Domain many buildings were lost to fire.
But the main hall, the entrance gate and the 鐘つき堂 hall for the Temple bell remained.
In 1969, it became a Prefectural designated historic site.

The gyoban 魚板 Fish Gong

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Fukuju-ji (福聚寺) is an Ōbaku Zen temple in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan.
Its honorary sangō prefix is Kōjuzan (広寿山).
Fukuju-ji is one of two bodaiji (菩提寺), or funeral temples, dedicated to Ogasawara Tadazane, the first daimyō of Kokura Domain. (The other is Toyokawa's Rinzai-ji.)
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The temple was founded in 1665 by Ogasawara Tadazane with support from Sokuhi Nyoitsu, a Chinese monk.
In 1669, Ogasawara Tadataka (小笠原忠雄), the second daimyō of Kokura, began planning the construction of the temple such as Kaisandō hall, the main hall, a bell tower and so on.
Many temple structures were destroyed by fire in the Summer War of 1866.
However, much of the temple and its numerous annexes, include the Buddha-Hall (仏殿 butsuden), the Chinese style architecture rebuilt in 1802, was survived after the war.
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- source : oyakushi.com ...
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This temple is Nr. 06 of the pilgrimage
. 49 Yakushi Temples in Kyushu 九州四十九薬師霊場 .

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

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Ogasawara Tadazane 小笠原 忠真 (1596 – 1667)
Tadazane was the son of Ogasawara Hidemasa (1569–1615)
with Toku-hime, daughter of Matsudaira Nobuyasu and granddaughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
He married Kamehime, daughter of Honda Tadamasa with Kamehime (daughter of Matsudaira Nobuyasu)
and adopted daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
- Following the deaths of his father and elder brother in the Osaka Summer Campaign,
his holdings were transferred from Akashi Domain (100,000 koku) in Harima Province
to the Kokura Domain (150,000 koku) Buzen Province.
Famed as the lord who employed Miyamoto Musashi's adopted son Iori,
Tadazane took part in the Shogunate's campaign to quell the Shimabara Rebellion,
where the Kokura forces assisted in the execution of survivors of the rebel force, predominantly Christians.
Tadazane's son Tadataka succeeded him.
Other children included Nagayasu, Naganobu, Sanekata, and three daughters
(one of them adopted from the Hachisuka clan of Tokushima-han).
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2022/04/21

Tsuzuki Jizo Pilgrimage

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橘樹酉年地蔵尊霊場 Jizo Pilgrimage

都築橘樹酉年地蔵尊霊場は、江戸時代中期に大飢饉や洪水による困窮から地蔵信仰が発生、
旧都築郡・旧橘樹郡域の25ヶ寺を巡る霊場として江戸時代中期に成立したといいます。12年に1度の酉歳に開帳されます


01 観福寺 Kanpuku-Ji

02 地蔵堂 Jizo-Do

03 瑞雲寺 Zuiun-Ji

. 04 星王山 Hoshiozan 寶蔵院 / 宝蔵院 Hozo-In 能満寺 Noman-Ji - Kawasaki .

. 05 幡森山 Hatamorizan 燈松院 Tomatsu-In 龍雲寺 Ryuunji - Yokohama .

06 北新羽地蔵堂 Jizo-Do

07 / 08 / 09 浄流寺 Joryu-Ji / Yokohama 横浜市港北区新吉田町3317

. 10 圓瀧山 光明院 Komyo-In 興禅寺 Kozen-Ji - Yokohama .

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2022/04/20

Ryuunji Kannon Higashigata

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. 小机領三十三所子歳観音霊場 Kozukue Nedoshi 33 Kannon .
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Ryuuunji 龍雲寺 / 竜雲寺 Ryuun-Ji, Higashigata
幡森山 Hatamorizan 燈松院 Tomatsu-In 龍雲寺 Ryuunji


神奈川県横浜市都筑区東方町1300 / Yokohama, Tsuzuki ward, Higashigata

The Kannon statue is 聖観世音菩薩 Sho Kannon.
It is the biggest Kannon statue of this pilgrimage.

The main statue is 阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai, made by 智證大師 Chisho Daishi .
. Chisho Daishi 智證大師 Enchin 圓珍 / 円珍 (814 - 891).

The temple was founded in 1550 by Priest 養蓮社順譽, who died in 1595.
It is a sub-temple of . Senkokuji 泉谷寺 Senkoku-Ji .
the first temple of the Kozukue Pilgrimage.
The 観音堂 Kannon Hall is to the left of the gate.
The Kannon Statue is about 1,5 m high.

In the compound is also a shooroo 鐘樓 Bell Tower.


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Also on the following pilgrimage :

. 橘樹酉年地蔵尊霊場 Tsuzuki Jizo Pilgrimage . - Nr. 05
東方地蔵堂 Higashigata Jizo Hall


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This temple is Nr. 17 of the pilgrimage
. 小机領三十三所子歳観音霊場 Kozukue Nedoshi 33 Kannon .
nedoshi 子年 (ねずみどし) refers to the year of the rat, 鼠 nezumi.

. 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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松前郡 Matsumae district 松前町 Matsumae town

. kechimyakuzakura 血脈桜 blood-line cherry .
Near the castle of Matsumae there were two temples, 光善寺 Kozen-Ji and 龍雲寺 Ryuun-Ji with two cherry trees, their roots intertwined.

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