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8 Apr 2024

TEMPLE Toji Yakushi Kujo

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Toji Yakushi Kujo

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Tooji 東寺 To-Ji, Kujo
東寺 Toji also known as 教王護国寺 Kyō-ō-gokoku-ji

京都市南区九条町１ / Kyoto city, Minami ward, Kujo town

The main statue is 金剛薬師 Kongo Yakushi.

- Chant of the temple
七佛の　みのりにもたる人もなく　皆びやうどうに　すくふせいがん

The temple was founded in 796.

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History of To-ji Temple
In 794, the capital of Japan was transferred from Nara to present-day Kyoto.
With the arrival of the imperial court, the city was renamed "The Imperial City of Heiankyo" (the former name of the city of Kyoto). From the entrance of Heiankyo, an 84-meter-wide avenue ran directly north to the Imperial Palace, in the middle of the city.
The city was arranged symmetrically on either side of this grand avenue and all streets ran precisely north-south and east-west in a grid pattern. The layout of old Heiankyo is still visible in the rectilinear pattern of modern Kyoto's streets.
Two huge guardian temples were built on the east and the west sides of the main entrance of the Imperial City of Heiankyo. Unfortunately, the temple on the west side no longer exists, but To-ji, which literally means "East Temple", has survived to the present day.
In 823, the Emperor Saga honored the Monk Kukai and gave the temple to him.
Kukai made To-ji the central seminary of Shingon (or Esoteric) Buddhism and added various buildings such as the pagoda and halls.
Since then, To-ji has been the headquarters of the Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism.
The major buildings were damaged by earthquakes and fires but have been rebuilt to retain the original layout and the architectural styles.
Many magnificent treasures such as statues, carvings, paintings and artworks are housed in these temple buildings.
. source : toji.or.jp/en/about ... .

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18 Feb 2024

TEMPLE Shogakuin Yakushi Ichihara

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Shogakuin Ichihara Yamada

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Shogakujin 正覚院 Shogaku-In, Yamada
神光山 Shinkozan 正覚院 / 正覺院 Shogakuin 慈眼寺 Jiganji

市原市山田２９０） / Ichihara city, Yamada

The main statue is 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai.

The date of the founding is not clear,
but it is mentioned in records of the Muromachi Period (1336 - 1573).
The Main Hall war constructed in 1803.
In the middle of the Edo Period (1603 - 1868) during an epidemic
the original statue of 阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai was replaced by Yakushi, the Buddha of Healing.
In 1872, the temple was relocated to the 山田小学校 Yamada Primary School.
In 1970, the thatched roof was replaced by tiles to prevent fire.
In 2011 the main hall was rebuilt.

Stone statues in the compound

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This Temple is Nr. 25 of the
. Ichihara 市原郡八十八ヶ所霊場 88 Temples Pilgrimage .

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12 Sept 2023

TEMPLE Aizenin Mie

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Aizenin Mie Nonin

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Aizenin 愛染院 Aizen-In, Nonin
遍光山 Henkozan, 願成寺 Ganjo-Ji, 愛染院 Aizenin

伊賀市農人町354 / Iga city, Nonin town

The main statue is 愛染明王 Aizen Myo-O.

- Chant of the temple
おん　まか　らぎゃばぞろ　しゅにしゃばざら　
さとば　じゃくうん　ばんこく

The temple was founded around 1190 by 鏡覚阿闍梨 Priest Kagaku
on request of 後鳥羽天皇(在位1183～98) Emperor Gotoba Tenno,
who was ill and wanted to pray for his health.
The temple was later lost to fire.
In 1661, it was re-built by 実恵法印 Saint Jitsue (Mie).
This temple is the family temple of 松尾芭蕉家 the Matsuo Basho Family.
There is also a mound with the last hair of the haiku poet Matsuo Basho.
In the compound is a statue of 大日如来 Dainichi Nyorai.
There are also Halls named 地蔵堂 Jiso Hall, 行者堂 Gyoja Hall and 聖天堂 Shoten Hall.

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- Yearly Festivals 年中行事 -

２月節分の日　節分会
４月８日　　　花まつり
８月２６日　　六夜会式　愛染明王縁日
１０月１２日　芭蕉祭墓前供養
春秋彼岸　　　彼岸会　無縁仏供養
毎月２１日　　弘法大師御影供

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Also on the following pilgrimages :

. Saigoku Aizen Deity Pilgrimage 西国愛染霊場 . - Nr. 11

東北三十六不動尊霊場　Tohoku 36 Fudo Temples Pilgrimage
. Kamitera Fudo Son Shokei-In 神寺不動尊松景院 . - Nr. 27

. Kamitera in Miyagi 神寺不動尊松景院 .

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Matsuo Basho visited Aizen-In

. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 .

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This temple is Nr. 31 of the pilgrimage

. Mie Shikoku Henro 三重四国八十八ヵ所霊場 .

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

. Aizen Myo-O 愛染明王 Aizen Myō-ō .

. Gyoki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 (668 - 749) .

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8 Sept 2023

TEMPLE Shokakuji Yakushi Matsugaya

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Shokakuji Yakushi Matsugaya

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Shookakuji 勝覚寺 Shokaku-Ji, Matsugaya
萬徳山 Mantokuzan 勝覚寺 Shokakuji

山武市松ヶ谷2058 / Sammu city, Matsugaya

The main statue is 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai.

The temple was founded in 947
on request of 村上天皇 Emperor Murakami Tenno (926 - 967).
. More about Murakami in the wikipedia .

The statue of Shakyamuni Buddha is holding a flower.
He has a special smile, nenge mishoo 拈華微笑.
The Shaka Do 釈迦堂 Hall for Shakyamuni is opened of fine days.
There are shitenno 四天王像 statues of the Four Heavenly Kings.
They are 県指定文化財 a prefectural designated cultural property.

Near the temple are large fields of strawberries, where many people come in the season to pick them.

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omamori　お守り amulets

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- source : tesshow - kazsa_yakshi .
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This temple is Nr. 26 of the pilgrimage
. Kazusa 35 Yakushi Pilgrimage 上総国薬師如来霊場 .

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28 Apr 2018

Yakushi legends 11 Toyama Yamaguchi Yamanashi

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. Yakushipedia - ABC-Index 薬師如来 .
. Yakushi Nyorai - Legends from the provinces .
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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and
legends from Toyama 富山県, Yamaguchi 山口県 and Yamanashi

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Toyama 富山県

. Yakushidake, Yakushi-Dake 薬師岳 Mount Yakushi .

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下新川郡 Shimo-Niikawa district 朝日町 Asahi and 高岡市 Takaoka

On the 8th day of the 10th lunar month Yakushi goes off to 出雲 Izumo and comes back on the 8th day of the 4th lunar month.

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各願寺 Kakugan-Ji
本尊：薬師如来
富山市婦中町長沢5692

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Yamaguchi 山口県

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下関市 Shimonoseki

Yakushi Doo ato no ike 薬師堂跡の池 the pond a the remains of the Yakushi Do Hall
The water of this pond is said to heal eye diseases and warts.

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Yamanashi 山梨県

. Budō Yakushi, budoo Yakushi 葡萄薬師 Budo Yakushi, Grapes Yakushi .
行基菩薩 Saint Gyoki Bosatsu (668 - 749) at 勝沼町 Katsunuma

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富士吉田市 - Fuji Yoshida

Yakushi no tatari 薬師のたたり The curse of Yakushi
Once upon a time
there lived a person with bad eyes in the home of 加賀美イツケ Kagami Itsuke.
One day in a dream he saw a thrown-away statue of Yakushi Nyorai in the lake 明見湖 Asumiko in Fujiyoshida. He went there to get the statue and his eye disease was healed.
But since there was a curse to go with this statue, he then brought it to the temple 常在寺 Jozai-Ji in the village 小立村 Kodachi mura.

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南巨摩郡 Minamikoma gun 富沢町 Tomizawa

At the temple 龍徳寺 Ryutoku-Ji at mount 蓧井山 there is a statue of Yakushi Nyorai which had come floating down the river 有東川 Utogawa, looking almost like a log. When someone got the ax and dried to chop it down for firewood, there was blood flowing out of the statue. So the villagers build a little temple and venerated the statue. Whichever way they placed it, next morning it stood there facing the mountain, 蓧井山.

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韮崎市 Nirasaki 大草町 Okusa cho

. kadomatsu 門松 gate decoration with pines for New Year .
The Zen temple 正福寺 Shofuku-Ji has a Yakushi Do Hall.
On the New Year's night, the Yakushi in this hall had to go out to take a pee. He stumbled in the dark and hit his eye on a branch of the pine decoration, thus becoming blind.
Now there is never a pine decoration for the New Year at this temple.

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上野原市 Uenohara 秋山村 Akiyama

In the hamlet of 尾崎 Ozaki the statue of Yakushi Nyorai had been stolen and sold to a temple in Yokohama.
But the statue always went back to Ozaki, however many times they tried to put it up in Yokohama.

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. Yakushi Nyorai - Legends from the provinces .

. Yakushi Nyorai Pilgrimages 薬師霊場巡り - Introduction .

. O-Mamori お守り　Amulets and Talismans .

. Japan - Shrines and Temples - ABC List .

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Yakushi legends 10 Tochigi Tokushima Tottori

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芳賀郡 Haga 茂木町 Motegi

kome-togi baa sama 米とぎ婆さま old hag washing rice
Near the Yakushi temple there is the old hag washing rice.
She washes and polishes rice in the evening, singing this song:
「米とぎ婆さま晩方さあらさら。薬師様さあらさら。子供さろべとさあらさら。」

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鹿沼市 Kanuma

In front ot the home of the 上沢氏 Kamisawa family there is a 薬師堂 Yakushi Do Hall.
When washing the eyes at a well nearby, the eyes are healed. But the water has now dried up.

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鶏足寺 Keisokuk-Ji "Temple dedicated to the legs of a hen"
本尊：七仏薬師 Shichibutsu Yakushi
足利市小俣町2748-1 // 2748 Omatachō, Ashikaga-shi, Tochigi

. Shichibutsu Yakushi　七仏薬師 / 七佛薬師 Seven Yakushi Statues .

source : .city.ashikaga.tochigi.jp/site/bunkazai...
The statue is 52 cm high. End of Heian or beginning of Kamakura period.
In the compound of Keisoku-Ji was a hall dedicated to the Buddha of Medicine, 医王堂本堂.

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Keisokuji Temple
Over 1,100 years ago, this temple was opened by Joe Shonin (a Buddhist priest of Todaiji Temple in Nara Pref.).
At first,
the name was Sesonji Temple (Shakyamuni Temple). During the Tengyo-no-Ran (Tengyo War) (939-940), Hidesato Fujiwara (the head of a powerful family of the Heian period) overthrew Masakado Taira (a general of the Heian period) using a curse and the emperor gave this temple the name Keisokuji.

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In 939, Masakado Taira( a general of the Heian period) started the war that betrayed the Imperial Court.
During the next year, Hidesato Fujiwara fought with Masakado, obeying the emperor's instructions.
At this time, the highest Buddhist priest of the Sesonji Temple prayed for Hidesato's victory. Using Buddha's teaching, he offered the neck of Masakado which was made of clay. He kept praying every day and every night.
Finally on the eighth day, he fell asleep.
In his dream, he found a hen who had three legs treading on Masakado's bloody neck.
When he awoke to the hen's laughing voice, he saw Masakado's clay neck had three footprints clearly stamped in it.
In the 17th day of the full moon, Hidesato beat Masakado.
The name of Sesonji Temple has thus changed to Keisokuji Temple.
- source : japanguides.net/tochigi...-

There is also
滋賀県の鶏足寺 Keisoku-Ji in 滋賀県 Shiga.

鶏（にわとり）の足―　どうしてそんな名前に？ .
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- - - - - Yakushi Temples in Tochigi

長樂寺 Choraku-Ji
那須郡那須町寺子丙1404

医王寺 Io-Ji
足利市田中町454

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Tokushima 徳島県
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海部郡 Ama district 宍喰町 Shishikui

tanuki 狸 badger
Once upon a time there lived a Tanuki near the Yakushi Do Hall. He would play a trick on the villagers : When they went to bed with their head facing South, they would wake up next morning with the head facing North (kitamakura, pillow in the North).

kitamakura 北枕
Living people should never sleep with their pillow facing North.
This is the position for placing a dead body in the home, before the funeral.

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美馬郡 Mima district つるぎ町 Tsurugi

. ikiryoo 生霊 . 生き霊 Ikiryo"living spirit" .
Around 1670, a man had made a promise to marry a woman, but did not keep it and married another woman.
The insulted woman went to the Yakushi Do Hall and hit the eyes, ears and breast of the Yakushi statue with a cursing nail. The new wife begun to suffer from possessions and could not be healed. Even a mountain priest performing sacred rituals could not get her rid of the bad spirit.

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- 12 Yakushi Temples in Tokushima
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井戸寺 Ido-Ji
本尊：七仏薬師如来 Seven Yakushi Statues
徳島市国府町井戸北屋敷80-1

薬王寺 Yakuo-Ji
本尊：厄除薬師如来 Yakuyoke Yakushi Nyorai
海部郡美波町奥河内寺前285-1

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Tottori 鳥取県　

Kurayoshi, Sakura village 倉吉市桜
大日寺は寺伝に承和8年（841）Temple Dainichi-Ji
Statue by Ennin -　Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 / 慈覺大師 (794 – 864)
慈覚大師円仁の開基、永延2年（988）恵心僧都の再興とされる。本像は、桧又は榧の一木造りで、像高152.0cm。
肉身部は黄土彩、着身部はベンガラ彩の朱衣金体を呈し、両膝に見られる同心円状の衣文にも特徴がある。丸みを帯びた大らかな作風で、平安中期～後期の造像とみられる。
一木造りの、県内に残る数少ない平安時代の仏像として、価値が高い。
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The Elder Ashioka 葦岡長者
. Yoshioka Onsen 吉岡温泉 Hot Spring .

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. Yakushi no men 薬師の面 Yakushi Nyorai mask .
and the makuragami 枕神 "god of the pillow"

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hebi 蛇 serpent
Once a villager found a large pot in the forest behind the temple 薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji. In it was a dead serpent, but on the bottom was a liquid substance like 漆 laquer.
He took the pot home and gave the pot to the priest of the temple, and the scales of the serpent to his neighbour.
And oh wonder, the family of this old man became rich all of a sudden. This must have been the gratitude of the serpent. Later he gave the scales of the serpent to the local 弁天さん Benten Shrine.

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Yakushizoo 薬師像 statue of Yakushi
There lived a dangerous bandit, called 金屋の千賊 Kanaya no Senzo. The lord Chunagon 中納言藤原行平 Fujiwara no Yukihira came all the way from Kyoto to fight him, but after many years of fighting he was not successful. So Yukihira had to give up his title of lord and retired.
He made a vow to 天地神明 the deities of Heaven and Earth, and then carved 14 statues of Yakushi Nyorai. He threw the statues into the river and kept praying to be able to win over Senzo. With the help of the deities, he could eventually win and was able to go back to Kyoto.
One day when he was playing Go, there was a voice: "Hello Chunagon!"
When he looked outside, there was one of the statues of Yakushi Nyorai.
Kanaya is a mountain village, in Kotoura, Tohaku District, Tottori.

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西伯郡 Nishi-Hoki gun 中山町 Nakayama village

tawara Yakushi 俵薬師 Yakushi and a bale of rice
A man always told lies and got his riches by cheating other people, even killing a blind man. One day out of his storage house with the bales of rice he had aquired there came a statue of Yakushi Nyorai.
So he finally changed his mind, cut his hair and became a monk, venerating the statue until he died.

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紙本著色俵薬師縁起絵 Shihon Chakushoku Tawara Yakushi Engi E

This paining is from the legend of the tempel Tofuku-Ji 東福寺:
Once upon a time
they found a statue of Yakushi at the beach and stuffed into a straw bale to carry it to the temple, hence the name "Straw Yakushi".
The top part shows some temples and shrines, below are farmers, fishermen and other people busy with the statue.

一宮町一宮　東福寺
- source : town.ichinomiya.chiba.jp

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東伯郡 Tohaku district 琴浦町 Kotoura

The Yakushi Statue of the temple in 向原 Mukaihara had been found on the beach and brought here. But after that, there were many ill people in the village and many had bad dreams.
An oracle told them to bring the statue to a place where it could not hear the sound of the waves:
灘の音のしない所に祀ってくれ!
Now people come here to pray for healing of breast diseases.

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16 Apr 2018

YAKUSHI - Yakushi legends 09 Osaka Saitama Shiga Shizuoka

Tookooin 東光院 Toko-In - Hagi no Tera 萩の寺 Bushclover Temple
豊中市南桜塚1-12-7 // 1 Chome-12-7 Minamisakurazuka, Toyonaka-shi, Ōsaka-
第12番新西国霊場 Pilgrimage

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In 浪速の車町 Kuruma-machi, Naniwa at the 蘆池 Ashi-Ike pond a stone memorial with a figure of Yakushi had been found.
It is also known as
浪花薬師 Naniwa Yakushi or 蘆やくし Ashi-Yakushi.
Every year there was a festival in its honor.
But now the whereabouts of this Yakushi are not known any more.

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- More Yakushi Temples in Osaka

Hoounji 法雲寺 Houn-Ji
堺市美原区今井192-甲

Jigenin 慈眼院 Jigen-In
泉佐野市日根野626

Nichira Zenji 日羅禅寺 Nichira Zenji
八尾市南木の本615

Yachuji 野中寺 Yachu-Ji
羽曳野市野々上5-9-24

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Saitama 埼玉県

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宮代町 Miyashiro

migawari Yakushi 身代わり薬師 Yakushi as personal substiture
When a samurai from Aizu, called Ito 伊藤修理太夫光家 passed here, he was attacked from bandits 野武士. But Yakushi jumped in his place and the samurai was saved.

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所沢市 Tokorozawa

nezumi Yakushi ねずみ薬師 Yakushi and the mice
If the farmers prayed hard to Yakushi, he would prevent their estate from the damage of mice eating their rice harvest.

There is a mountain called
Nezumi Yakushi ねずみ薬師 in Niigata.

source :　takasei.sakura.ne.jp/-nezumiyakusi

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Shiga 滋賀県

In Shigaraki town there is a 不動寺 Fudo Temple. Once a man went missing there and people got out with drums and bells to look for him. They found him dead leaning on a tree on the Ise Road near the Ishi Yakushi stone 石薬師伊勢道.
This was the wrongdoing of a 天狗 Tengu for sure.

. Ishi Yakushi 石薬師 and Yakushi Ishi 薬師石 Rock and Stone .

. Yakushi Nyorai and Tengu Legends　薬師と天狗伝説 .

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Shizuoka 静岡県
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富士吉田市 Fujiyoshida

Yakushi no tatari 薬師のたたり the curse of Yakushi
Once upon a time, a member of the 加賀美イツケ Kagami clan had an eye disease. In a dream he was told that he should go to lake 明見湖 Asumiko (in nearby Yamanashi) and look for a statue of Yakushi Nyoarai to venerate. He did so and his eyes were healed.
But later through a curse of the Yakushi he was forced to bring it to the temple 常在寺 Jozai-Ji in 小立村 Kodachi-mura.

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庵原郡 Ibara district 両河内村 Ryogochi-mura

Once Tokugawa Ieyasu came to 大平の薬師様 Yakushi Sama in Ohira village and prayed, and soon his eyes were healed.
This Yakushi once wanted to be venerated by many more people and came all the way to 吉原 Yoshiwara Town in Eastern Shizuoka. But there he could not move on any more.
So it seems Yakushi did not want to go to Ohira after all.
Ohira is a small village near Numazu - 静岡県沼津市大平.

. Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 (1543 - 1616) .

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30 Mar 2018

YAKUSHI - Yakushi legends 08 Mie Miyazaki Nara Niigata

薬師如来坐像西盛寺 Nishimori-Ji
薬師三尊像（光善寺）
- reference source : bunka.pref.mie.lg.jp/rekishi... -

. Sanjusan Gendo Hall and 柳のお加持 "Rite of the Willow" .
Yooji Yakushi Doo 楊枝薬師堂 The Yakushi Hall of Yoji Village
- 浄薬寺 Joyaku-Ji

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熊野市 Kumano

. Oguri Hangan 小栗判官 .
and the Hot Spring 湯の峰温泉 Yunomine Onsen

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鈴鹿市 Suzuka

At the temple 清泉寺 Seisen-Ji in Kitabatake there is 北畑の薬師 a Yakushi statue.
people hard of hearing will certainly be healed. To show their gratitude, they have to make an offering. They must find a stone with a hole, place a thread or a mizuhiki 水引 ceremonial paper cord around it and offer it.

uma 馬 horse
At the temple 石薬師寺 Ishiyakushi-Ji (Stone Yakushi Temple) there is an ema 絵馬 votive tablet of a horse. The horse came out at night and devastated the fields.
So the farmers put a stake into it to fix it and bound its legs with painted ropes.

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上野市 Ueno

hi no tama ヒノタマ ball of fire
At 治田村 Haruta village there was an ill person. The door to his sick room suddenly made a strange sound, ガタガタ gatagata, opened and a ball of fire left the room.
The ball first flew to the nearby graves of the family and then to the temple 薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji. Now the bell of the temple begun to ring.

There is also a very old Yakushi-Ji temple in
三重県伊賀市鳳凰寺245 / 245 Bōji, Iga-shi, Mie
dating back to the 白鳳時代 Hakuo period.

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Miyazaki 宮崎県

. Hokedake-Ji, Hokkedakeji 法華嶽寺 Hokedake Yakushi-Ji .
- Yakushi Nyorai　薬師如来　and Izumi Shikibu 和泉式部

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Nara 奈良県

新薬師寺 Shin－Yakushi-Ji

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奈良市 Nara

chi no deru ishi 血の出る石 a bleeding stone
The cornerstone of the pagoda of Yakushi-Ji is said to be bleeding. A stone mason wanted to split the stone secretly, when the blood of a baby came flowing out of it. The mason was quite surprized and afraid and run home, but he died soon afterwards.

. yonaki Jizoo 夜泣地蔵 Jizo crying at night .
at 春日神社 Kasuga Jinja

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吉野町 Yoshino

kagayaita yo na sugata no hito 輝いたような姿の人 "shining person"
In the afternoon when children were playing in front of the Yakushi Do Hall, a person with a shining body appeared and told them:
"Hey, you children, come on, come on!"
「お前ら、来いよ、来いよ」"Hey, you children, come on, come here!"
But the children became afraid and fled in panic.

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Niigata 新潟県

source : city.nagaoka.niigata.jp...
The statue is 22 cm high and made from 椿 camellia wood.
Niigata, Nagaoka Akatani 長岡市赤谷

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加茂市 Kamo town 南蒲原郡 Minami Ganbara district

. Yoneyama Awagatake Awayakushi 米山，粟ケ岳，粟薬師 .
Awa Yakushi / 薬師岳 Mount Yakushidake

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両津市 Ryotsu

The town of 水津 Suizu on Sado Island had a prosperous period when the ships to the North stopped here.
Once a ship stopped and had a traveller had a vision of Yakushi Nyorai entering the home of the 川端家 Kawabata family.
So they build a small hall and venerated the Yakushi sama.

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十日町市 Tokamachi 松代町 Matsushiro

Once a young woman who had just married and entered a different family, became quite ill. Her father prayed to Yakushi Nyorai every day. He had a vision in his dream: He saw an old man with a white beard, telling him she would certainly be well soon.
When her father went to the in-laws the next day, he saw a hanging scroll of Yakushi Nyorai in their guest foom - and Yakushi looked just the same as the old man he had seen in his dream.
The bride got well soon after that.

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25 Mar 2018

Yakushi legends 07 Kyoto

勝持寺 Shoo-Ji - お薬摘む薬師
(西国四十九薬師巡礼 Nr. 42)

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. Inaba Yakushi 因幡薬師 Yakushi from Inaba .
Byoodooji 平等寺 Byodo-Ji　－　五条高倉薬師堂 Gojo Takakura Yakushi Do .
Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan

. Tako Yakushi 蛸薬師 Octopus Yakushi .
Temple 永福寺 Eifuku-Ji
京都市中京区新京極蛸薬師東側町503

京都十二薬師霊場 / 洛陽十二薬師
. Pilgrimage to 12 Yakushi Temples in Kyoto .

kuwagata Yakushi 鍬形薬師 Yakushi with a cut of a hoe
temple 大超寺 Daicho-Ji

The statue was found by a farmer plowing his fields, it shows the impression of his kuwa 鍬 hoe on the back.

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kane no oto 鐘の音 the sound of the bell
Near the 火葬場 crematory there was a 薬師堂 Yakushi Do Hall. People say there were a lot of gold coins buried there. In a quiet night the sound of a bell was heard from below the Yakushi hall.

kuruma-kaeshi no O-Yakushi san 車返のお薬師さん Yakushi stopped the transport
On orders of the Kamakura government a very precious statue of Yakushi was to be brought to 奥州平泉 Hiraizumi. But on the way at 白糸 Shiraito the cr with the statue on it could not be moved any more. So the people thought that Yakushi had chosen this place for himself and built a hall there to venerate him.

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tsuchinoko hebi 槌の子蛇 hammerspawn
Hammerspawns had been sighted at various spots in Kyoto:
In Northern Kyoto, 雲ケ畑 Kumogabata at the 薬師峠 Yakushi pass, at 沢の池 Sawanoike, at 老ノ坂峠 Oinosaka Pass
. at 京都清滝不動院 Kiyotaki Fudo-In .

Yakushi Tooge 薬師峠 Yakushi Toge pass

. tsuchinoko 槌の子 hammerspawn .
a legendary snake-like cryptid from Japan

- reference : Yakushi Toge in Japan -

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亀岡市 Kameoka

Yakushido no kane 薬師堂の鐘 the bell of the Yakushi Do Hall
When villagers buried the bell of the Yakushi Do Hall at the upper waterfall of the river 蛇谷川 Jadanigawa, it begun to rain immediately and the drought was over.

Yakushi Butsuzoo 薬師,仏像
About 200 years ago, during a flooding, a buddha statue came floating down the river. People thought it was Yakushi and venerated it.
Most people in the village stayed healthy after that.

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中京区 Nakagyo

. tengu no tsume 天狗の爪 nails of a Tengu .
shown at Temple 丹州国分寺 Kokubun-Ji

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南丹市 Nantan

薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai
If people make a wish for healing at the Yakushi Do Hall at the temple 成就院 Joju-In, people hard of hearing will certainly be healed. To show their gratitude, they have to make an offering. They must find a stone with a hole, place a thread or a mizuhiki 水引 ceremonial paper cord around it and offer it.

kyuuri kaji 胡瓜加持 ritual for cucumber purification, cucumber blessing
At the Yakushi Do Hall people come to get a purified cucumber, take it home and each member of the family has to take a bite. The rest will be buried under the beams of the house to prevent people from getting ill during the year.

. kyuuri fuuji きゅうり封じ / 胡瓜封じ cucumber ritual .

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与謝郡 Yosa district 野田川町 Nodagawa

. muchi yakushi 鞭薬師 "whip Yakushi" .
麻呂子親王 Prince Maroko Shinno carved seven statues of Yakushi Nyorai ...

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Aichi 愛知県 / 名古屋市 Nagoya 熱田区 Atsuta

. 大薬師の鬼祭 "Festival of the Demons of Yakushi Nyorai" .
高蔵不動院 Takakura Fudo-In

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Shimane 島根県 / 邇摩郡 Nima district

. Yakushi no men 薬師の面 mask of Yakushi .
at the tempel 山田寺 Yamadadera

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Wakayama 和歌山県 / 日高郡 Hidaka district みなべ町 Manabe

O-Ryuu Yanagi おりゅう柳 The Willow Tree O-Ryu
. Sanjusan Gendo Hall and 柳のお加持 "Rite of the Willow" .
and the legend of O-Ryu.

A willow tree from 熊野川町 Kumanogawa village had been cut down and should be shipped to Kyoto for the building of the Sanjusan Gendo Hall.
The tree was very large and could not float down the river smoothly. There appeared the spirit of a woman and helped pulling the tree downriver. But the place where the tree had been cut was now cursed
and the villagers venerated 十二薬師 12 Yakushi statues there.

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Tooji 東寺 To-Ji - Yakushi Do Hall

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- - - - - More temples with statues of Yakushi Nyorai in Kyoto

一様院 Ichiyo-In, 大宮薬師山東町16

神護寺 Jingo-Ji, 高雄山 Takao-San

教王護国寺 Kyoo-O Gokoku-Ji

来迎院 Raigo-In

三宝院 Sanbo-In, 醍醐寺 Daigo-Ji 塔頭三宝院

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