11 Dec 2014

DARUMA - Jizo to win a battle

LINK
http://darumamuseumgallery.blogspot.jp/2007/04/jizo-bosatsu.html

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riun Jizo bosatsu, ri-un 利運地蔵菩薩
Jizo to win in battle

in Kyoto 臨済宗天龍寺派の禅刹等持院 Toji-In, Kyoto
The special hall for Jizo used to be called
霊光殿 Reiko-Den
京都府京都市北区等持院北町63



足利尊氏の念持仏だった利運地蔵菩薩)と、その両脇に達磨大師像と夢窓疎石像

Ashikaga Takauji prayed here for victory, and so did Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Takauji had been born because his childless mother made a vow to Jizo and became pregnant after that. Therefore Jizo was his special protector deity.



source : ameblo.jp/bluedeloi

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Tōji-in (等持院) is a Buddhist temple of the Rinzai Tenryū sect located in Kita Ward, Kyoto, Japan, and one of two funeral temples (bodaiji) dedicated to Ashikaga Takauji, first shogun of the Ashikaga dynasty. Its main object of worship is Shakyamuni, and its honorary sangō prefix is Mannenzan (萬年山).
Tōji-in was founded at the foot of Mount Kinugasa in 1341 by Takauji himself in fulfillment of a vow. He did so under the guidance of famous Zen teacher, calligraphist, poet and garden designer Musō Soseki, who created the Zen gardens and ponds of the temple. Tōji-in later became the Ashikaga dynasty's funeral temple and all fifteen of the Ashikaga shoguns are buried here.
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The Reikō-den



Jizo, Daruma and Soseki

Tokugawa Ieyasu and all the fifteen Ashikaga shoguns are enshrined in a small building called Reikō-den (霊光殿).
The sixteen statues are lined up in two rows on the sides of the room, each sitting and carrying a shaku symbolizing their shogunal power. Their sculptors are unknown, but they have been tentatively dated to the early seventeenth century. The presence among the Ashikaga shoguns of a statue of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, suggests that Tokugawa wished to link himself to the Ashikaga clan and give an impression of continuity between the two dynasties.
Like them, Ieyasu claimed to be a descendant of the Minamoto clan.
- source : wikipedia


. Ashikaga Takauji 足利尊氏 (1305 - 1358) . :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::





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