[ . BACK to DARUMA MUSEUM TOP . ]
. - - - - - ABC-List of the Sennin Immortals Hermits - - - - - .
. sennin 仙人と伝説 Legends about Immortals .
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Miyako no Yoshika 都良香
(834 - 879)
He is Nr. 14 of the
. 日本の仏仙人16人 - The 16 Buddhist Immortals of Japan .
- source : wikimedia / painting by Kikuchi Yōsai 菊池容斎
Miyako no Yoshika (都良香) was a poet and scholar of the Heian Period and had an office at the court.
His speciality was kangaku 漢学 Chinese learning.
Legends say that 100 years after he left office, he was spotted on a mountain as a hermit, his face unchanged.
When Miyako no Yoshika passed through the Rashomon Gate in Kyoto, he composed the beginning of a new poem:
氣霽風梳新柳髪
From the roof of the gate there was a voice continuing with the second part of the poem:
氷消波洗旧苔鬚
This must have been the voice of the Demon of Rashomon Gate.
. Rashomon Gate 羅生門 - Introduction .
羅城門の鬼、羅生門の鬼 // The Demon of Rashomon
. Sugawara no Michizane 菅原道真 (845 - 903).
A similar tale is known when he traveled to 竹生島 Chikubu Island in Lake Biwako.
There it was 弁才天 the Deity Benten who provided the second part to his poem.
Although their life dates are different, there are tales about Yoshika and Sugawara no Michizane.
They were shooting arrows at the estate of Miyako.
- source : 国文学研究資料館
..............................
- quote -
Miyako no Yoshika was a scholar and statesman of the Heian court.
Today, he is most famous for having written up the earliest convincing account of Mt Fuji's crater. This appears in an essay entitled A Record of Mt Fuji.
Unfortunately, history doesn't relate whether he saw the crater for himself, or heard about it from somebody else.
- snip snip -
On the face of it, the ninth century would have been a bad time to make the attempt. Three huge eruptions wracked Mt Fuji between 800 and 865, the last one so extravagantly effusive that it created a new lake at the mountain's foot. Yoshika's own account of the volcano describes how a new parasite cone suddenly appeared in March 803.
Even if he wasn't put off by these fulminations,
Yoshika had a lot of business to keep him in Kyoto. He was a lesser private secretary (shō-naiki) in the administration, and a professor of literature too. In 870, he set the civil service entrance examination for Sugawara no Michizane, who later became the greatest scholar-statesman of the age.
Intriguingly,
the exam's second question required Sugawara to "Analyse earthquakes" – elucidating why the normally still earth moved, how the Chinese explained the phenomenon, and how the Buddhists in India explained it. Michizane first presented the Confucian view – that the earth heaved when the emperor's virtue was inadequate and the government was in disarray – and then added a Taoist interpretation of earthquakes for good measure.
Reading this story, I was momentarily enthused. Perhaps Miyako no Yoshika was a would-be geophysicist, born a thousand years before his time. If so, he would naturally have wanted to climb Mt Fuji, taking samples of the ash and meticulously recording the still-steaming lava streams as he went…
Alas,
a re-reading of Yoshika's Record of Mt Fuji disabused me. The essay doesn't support the idea that Yoshika was a proto-scientist. Indeed, it's clear that the author's real concerns lay elsewhere than the crater; which is described more or less as an afterthought. What really fascinated Yoshika were the supernatural "Immortals" said to inhabit the upper slopes, or the angels who were seen dancing in the clouds over the summit.
For Yoshika,
it seems, there was no dividing line between the "natural" and "supernatural". In Heian times, nature and super-nature were larger and more mysterious than humans could possibly imagine. A quaintly outmoded way of thinking, one might have thought – at least, until last year, when those waves crashed ashore that were higher than anybody could possibly have imagined.
So perhaps Yoshika didn't climb Mt Fuji after all.
Yet there is still something appealing in the idea of him hanging up his court robes on the back of his office door – perhaps after a stressful day examining the impossibly precocious Sugawara – sneaking out of the Palace incognito, and then hopping aboard the evening Shinkansen to Shizuoka for a quick run up Mt Fuji...
- source : onehundredmountains.blogspot.
Fujisan ki 富士山記 A Record of Mt Fuji
..............................
- quote -
都 良香（みやこ の よしか) (承和元年（834年） - 元慶3年2月25日（879年3月21日））
は、平安時代前期の貴族・文人。姓は宿禰のち朝臣。初名は言道。
----- 経歴
----- 人物
----- 官歴
----- 説話
漢詩にまつわる説話が複数伝えられており、後世においても、
-- ある人が羅城門を通った時に、良香の詠んだ漢詩を誦したところ、
-- 良香が晩夏に竹生島に遊んだ際に作ったという「
また、
活躍時期がやや異なるにもかかわらず、
-- 良香の家で門下生が弓遊びをしていた際、
-- 菅原道真に昇進で先を越されたことから、
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !
- source - 太宰府天満宮・宝物館 - 『北野天神縁起』
Yoshika and Michizane shooting arrows
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Who was the first to climb Mount Fuji ?
- quote -
富士山・富士登山者昔むかし - Who was the first to climb Mount Fuji ?
富士山に最初に登ったのは木花開耶姫だという。
４、聖徳太子（598年頃）。５、役の行者（680年頃）。６、
・山梨県と静岡県との境
【本文】
いまではすっかり観光地化され、
しかし遠く北アルプス白馬（しろうま）岳、北陸白山、
①：最初に登ったのは木花咲耶姫（このはなさくやひめ）。
縄文時代、
②：中国の仙術士除福（じょふく）。The Chinese Sennin Jofuku
秦始皇帝の命令で不老長生回春の薬草を探しに登ったという。
③：弥生時代、西暦150年代？日本武尊（
が東征のおり登頂したと伝えます。
④：あの聖徳太子。Shotoku Taishi
598年ころ（17歳の時）、
(5)：次は役ノ行者。En no Gyoja
奈良の葛城山で一言主神の讒言により伊豆の大島に流された行者は
⑥：桓武（かんむ）天皇 Kanmu Tenno （800年頃・平安時代初期）。
⑦：空海（807年ころ）。Kukai
⑧：平安初期の漢学者の都良香（みやこのよしか）Miyako no Yoshika
が会った登山者。良香は富士山に登った人から聞いて「富士山記」
Yoshika heard the details from someone who had climbed Mount Fuji, when he wrote his report in 879. It seems he did not climb the mountain himself.
⑨：平安後期の末代（まつだい）法師。Matsudai Hoshi
久安年中（1145～1151）
続いて親鸞上人が、また日蓮上人が登り経ヶ岳に経を埋め、
- more
- reference source : toki.moo.jp/gaten...200... -
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .
..............................
kishi 鬼詞 the demon's poem
When Miyako no Yoshika passed through the Rashomon Gate in Kyoto, he composed the beginning of a new poem. From the roof of the gate there was a voice continuing with the second part of the poem.
When 菅原道真 Sugawara no Michizane heard this story, he said it must have been the Demon of Rashomon who composed this part of the poem.
..............................
- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
. sennin 天狗と仙人伝説 Legends about Tengu and Immortals .
. sennin 仙人と伝説 Legends about Immortals .
. Japan - Shrines and Temples - Index .
[ . BACK to DARUMA MUSEUM . TOP . ]
[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]
- - #miyakonoyoshika #yoshikasennin -
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
--
Posted By Gabi Greve to Gokuraku - Jigoku on 4/14/2018 01:06:00 pm
No comments:
Post a Comment