Yakushi legends 11 Toyama Yamaguchi Yamanashi

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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
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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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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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Yakushi legends 10 Tochigi Tokushima Tottori

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and
legends from Tochigi 栃木県, Tokushima 徳島県 and Tottori 鳥取県

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Tochigi 栃木県


能満寺

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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？ .
- reference source : shiga-motherlake.jp/news... -

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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。
- reference source : db.pref.tottori.jp/bunkazainavi.nsf... -

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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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HEIAN - Sennin elixir of life food

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Sennin no shokuji　仙人の食事 Food of the Sennin
The Elixir of Life and Immortality

仙人は霞を食べて生きている Sennin have been eating dew and mist . . .



. kuko no mi クコの実 Lycium rhombifolium .
Chinese wolfberry, goji berry, barbary matrimony vine, bocksdorn, Duke of Argyll's tea tree, or matrimony vine.
Wolfberries have long played important roles in traditional Chinese medicine where they are believed to enhance immune system function, improve eyesight, protect the liver, boost sperm production and improve circulation, among other effects.
- wikipedia

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chorogi　チョロギ　Stachys affinis
commonly called crosne, Chinese artichoke, Japanese artichoke, knotroot, and artichoke betony, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Lamiaceae, originating from China.
Its rhizome is eaten as a root vegetable.

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道の駅「久米の里」Roadside station Kume-no-sato
563-1 Miyao, Tsuyama, Okayama

They sell special food items for Sennin in the 仙人館 Sennin Kan hall:

for example
仙人みそ Sennin Miso paste.



道の駅久米の里「仙人まつり」Sennin Matsuri Festival

In honor of the Immortal Kume Sennin they sell a lot of special food and even make
久米仙人の人形焼き waffles of Kume Sennin.



. Kume no Sennin 久米の仙人 .


. kanpooyaku 漢方薬 Chinese medicine .
Kanpo, Kampo . . .
In the times before the advent of modern Western medicine, Asia relied heavily on the use of traditional remedies, medical plants and minerals and then prayers to the various deities !


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Immortality, the Elixir of Life and the Food of the Gods
When we look into the accounts of many different mythologies and religions, it becomes clear that the gods are either immortal or live a life of many thousands of years. What is rarely mentioned is the fact that in ancient religious texts there is reference to their immortality or longevity being connected to a specific kind of food that only the gods are allowed to eat. The gods were required to eat this food regularly to maintain immortality, power and strength. Many references also refer to the fact that if mortals ate this food, they would also become immortal like the gods. So let us explore the mythology surrounding this 'Elixir of Life'.



One of the main references to the food of the immortals can be found in Greek mythology.
It is written in the stories of the Greek gods that ambrosia and nectar was the food and drink of the immortal gods and this first appears in the Greek mythology relating to the birth of Zeus. Before the 'invention' or 'discovery' of ambrosia and nectar by the gods, it was written that they would feed by 'sniffing' the vapours of their dead enemies, as if they would feed from the energy of the dead souls.
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In the Hindu religion,
the gods would harness a milk called Amrita, a nectar that was collected and drunk by the gods to give them immortality, but forbidden for humans to drink. This milk was apparently surrounding the Earth, and the gods would collect it with the help of a serpent.
In Chinese mythology
we have the 'Peaches of Immortality' as the food of the immortals. Eating this food ensured the everlasting existence of the gods. If humans would eat from this fruit they would also become immortals.
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Nectar and Ambrosia, the Tree of Life, Amrita, Peaches of Immortality, Soma and Haoma –
are all these references simply the imagination of our ancient ancestors? Or, like other myths, is there an element of truth to be found in these ancient tales? It is possible that immortality or longevity can really be achieved through the consumption of a 'special' food, which has always been held as a privilege reserved for the gods? Perhaps the search for the 'Elixir of Life' is a valid and one day it may be found ...
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Seeking Life but Finding Death: Deadly Chinese Elixirs of Immortality
..... These elites would normally patronize Taoist alchemists, who would provide them with some sort of substance that would supposedly give them immortality. The ingestion of such elixirs, however, certainly did not allow them to live forever. In many cases the elixirs, which contain extremely poisonous elements, (ironically) were responsible for the deaths of those who consumed them. .....
Chang'e and the Elixir of Immortality
The elixir of immortality is a concept that can be found in Taoist mythology. .....
Recipes for Immortality
..... One example of the former is the Lingzhi, which has been translated literally as the 'Supernatural Mushroom' and known also as the 'Mushroom of Immortality'. .....
Death by an Elixir of Immortality
..... The most famous Chinese Emperor to have died by taking the elixir of immortality, however, is Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. The emperor's obsession with attaining immortality is well-known in Chinese history and was recorded by ancient Chinese historians. .....
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HEIAN - Sennin 08 Kan Shiwa Kanshiwa

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飛龍士韓志和 Hiryushi  Kan Shiwa

He is Nr.08 of the
. 日本の仏仙人16人 - The 16 Buddhist Immortals of Japan .


source : panoramahida.iza-yoi.net/hidatakumi...

Maybe he was a master carpenter of Hida Takayama. The statue shows him with a chisel and hammer.
. Hida no takumi 飛騨の匠 expert carpenter or craftsman from Hida .
They were already well known in the Heian period.

Later he was 飛龍隊の兵士 in the Imperial guard of "the flying dragons" in China.

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"…'Golden Butterflies' is about a Japanese immigrant living in the T'ang dynasty China (619-905), probably one of the many Japanese students and pilgrims who went to China during the early T'ang to learn Chinese arts and sciences for their own newly developing nation of Yamato (Japan).
The name of this particular individual, Han Shih-ho (Han Shiho, or in Japanese, Kan Shiwa) would seem to indicate that he was in fact of fairly recent Chinese or Korean ancestry, as were many families among the upper classes of ancient Japan and in the craft guilds they patronized. Kan Shiwa was a master craftsman, one of the professional pursuits traditionally associated with Taoism.
Although stories about him mention no details on this point, he was evidently also a martial artist, another profession with traditional Taoist connections, for he served in the imperial guard of the ruling house of the T'ang. His story illustrates a number of Taoist ideas. His ability to make lifelike moving replicas of insects, animals, and birds represents what is sometimes called taking over creation, the power to infuse inert matter (the physical body) with vitality, energy, and spirit. The relationship between the color of his mechanical insects and the 'food' he gives them illustrates the way personality is formed by education and environmental influences.
The story of the golden butterflies represents the Taoist theory of 'equalizing things' in worldly terms, through redistribution of wealth by nonviolent means."
-from Vitality, Energy, Spirit: a Taoist Sourcebook // translated and edited by Thomas Cleary (p.37-38)


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GOLDEN BUTTERFLIES
"In the time of the emperor Mu-tsung (Muzong) of the T'ang dynasty, in the ninth century, among the members of the elite corps of the imperial guard was a Japanese man named Kan Shiwa.
Kan Shiwa
was a most extraordinary sculptor. He could fashion any sort of bird and make it so that it could drink water, hop around, stretch out its neck and call, and so on, all in the most beautiful and charming manner. He put machinery in the bellies of the birds he made, so that besides having beautiful plumage they could also fly one or two hundred feet in the air.
Also,
Shiwa sculpted cats that could do even more; they could run around and even catch small birds.
Now the captain of the guard thought this was truly marvelous, and wrote to the emperor about it. Emperor Mu-tsung summoned Kan Shiwa into his presence, and he too was captivated by Shiwa's skill.
The emperor asked Shiwa
if he could carve something yet more marvelous. Shiwa told the emperor he would make a 'dais for seeing dragons.'
..... Not without misgivings, the emperor stepped up. The moment he did so, a gigantic dragon appeared in the sky. It was about twice the size of a man and had scales, a mane, claws, and horns; it flew into the clouds and rode on a mist, dancing in the sky. Its energy and appearance were such that one would never think it to have been made by human hands.
The emperor
was flabbergasted. Frantically he jumped off the little platform and said, 'Fine, fine, very good, now take it away with you!'
Strange to say, the moment he got off the dais the big dragon disappeared. All that remained was to put it back in its place.
Now Shiwa apologized to the emperor for startling him so, and offered to make good by doing something amusing. .....
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..... Shiwa made some small things, "They are like spiders, they are flycatchers."
"Are they real?" the emperor asked, amazed by their lifelike quality.
"No, they are manmade," Shiwa answered. . . .
Catching the flies, one by one they returned to Shiwa's palm.
The emperor marveled at this. He gave Shiwa a big reward of silver, which Shiwa ungrudgingly gave away to poor people in the city. Now the rumor passed around among the people of the city was that Kan Shiwa was a spiritual immortal from the Isles of the Blest in the East Sea.
Just when this gossip reached its peak, Kan Shiwa disappeared from the imperial guard and no one ever saw him again.
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韓志和 Kara Shiwa（木鶴大明神）Kitsuru Daimyojin - Deity of the Wooden Crane
高山市川原町の中橋公園にある韓志和（から・しわ）の像。



木彫りやカラクリの技術に優れ、唐の皇帝・穆宗（ぼくそう）を驚嘆させたという。
この韓志和は飛騨の匠ではないかと考えられるようになった。
古くから飛騨の匠の高い技術が評価されていた事もあるのだろう。
飛騨国分寺にある木鶴大明神は、彼を描いた像といわれている。
自作の木鶴に乗って中国へ渡ったという韓志和。両手にはノミと槌が握られている。
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HEIAN - Sennin 07 Yoro

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Yooro Sennin 養老仙人 Yoro Sennin
and
Nanigashi 草野某（なにがし）

He is Nr. 07 of the
. 日本の仏仙人16人 - The 16 Buddhist Immortals of Japan .

Not much is known about this Sennin. He was a poor 樵夫 forest worker in 美濃国多藝郡 Mino no kuni, Tagenokoori（たげのこおり）
now 多芸郡（たぎぐん）岐阜県（美濃国) Tagi district, Gifu.
As a reward for his filial piety he obtained longevity.
The water of the waterfall does not only turn to Sake, it also heals various ailments of humans.
Some people come here to get the water and have even seen an old man near the fall.
Sake no Izumi　酒の泉 the fountain of Sake



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Yoro's power is outlined in an old legend about a poor woodcutter who went into the woods to find firewood, and discovered the water of the spring had turned to rice wine. He filled a hyooten ひょうたん gourd with the spring water and brought it to his aged and ill father, who was returned to good health by the wine. The water-to-sake transformation was believed to be the gods rewarding the son for his dedication to his father.
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The Empress Genshō, visited the area, and renamed the period of her reign after it ...
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元正天皇の霊亀三年、この樵夫の孝咸（こうかん）に因りて同郡多度山より醴泉（れいせん）出せり。故に改元ありて、霊亀の年号を改めて養老とせらる。これを以てこの樵夫の孝名、普（あまね）く世に知られたり。然れども、この樵夫が道を得て神仙となりたることは、未だこれを知る者無かりき。
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Yōrō (養老) was a Japanese era name (年号 nengō, "year name") after Reiki and before Jinki.
This period spanned the years from November 717 through February 724. The reigning empress was Genshō-tennō (元正天皇).


The gourd, a most common water container for travelers in the Edo period, has become the symbol of Yoro town and there is a Gourd Festival.


ひょうたんと養老


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Yooro no Taki 養老の滝 Yoro no Taki Waterfall

The famous Yōrō Falls (養老の滝, Yōrō no Taki) is a waterfall in Yōrō Park located in the town of Yōrō.
There are a few other waterfalls in Japan with this name.

yooro no kooko 養老の孝子 filial piety at Yoro


about 26 cm high

. Yooro no Taki 養老の滝 Yoro no Taki Waterfall .
Once a pious son scooped some water from the waterfall pool and brought it home to his old parents.
When they took a sip - oh wonder - it had turned into sake and all their ailments were healed.

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Kooshi jinja 孝子神社 （こうしじんじゃ）"Shrine of the Filial Piety"



岐阜県養老郡養老町 / Yoro Town Gifu
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松尾芭蕉　Matsuo Basho wrote:

盃の下ゆく菊や朽木盆
sakazuki no shita yuku kiku ya Kitsuki bon

below the sake cup
there is a chrysanthemum -
tray from Kitsuki

Written in 1675, 延宝3年, Basho age 32.
He took the inspriation from an old song, Yooroo 養老 Yoro.
The sake in the small cup is overflowing rapidly and becomes the famous waterfall of Yoro. Its flow looks like the chrysanthemums flowing in the river.


. Kitsuki bon 朽木盆 tray from Kitsuki .


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Nanigashi 草野某（なにがし）
was a Samurai who lived around 1580 in 美濃国本巣郡 Mino no Kuni, Motosu gun district.
His family was very poor and he lost his father at age 4. He was brought up by relatives and later went to Kyoto to the temple 西園寺 Saion-Ji.
There he got a letter from his mother, who was very ill and wanted him to come back soon. On his way he got involved in fights between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Shibata Katsuie, but managed to find his way home. His mother was very pleased to see him. He took some medicine from his luggage and gave it to his mother as an expression of his filial piety.
Since his family was so poor, they could only eat rice and wild vegetables, and he decided to practise ablutions and austerities at the waterfall.
His mother died shortly after, but he had obtained the power to fly and change places freely and eventually left the waterfall to become an Immortal.


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HŌJŌGAWA - a noh play by kanze motokiyo zeami
Hachiman River
I am Chikuba Nanigashi, priest at the Kashima Shrine.
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The story of the filial piety and healing water from the waterfall is also known in 千葉県 Chiba, 香川県 Kagawa, 兵庫県 Hyogo and 茨城県 Ibaraki.


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The son had to care for his father, who loved to drink Sake . . . and then found the miraculous pond at the foot of the waterfall.

kogane take 黄金竹 golden bamboo
美濃の養老の滝にある神社の後方に、毎年二本ずつ生えるが、一年で枯れる竹があるといわれていた。

tengu 天狗
美濃国養老郡一の瀬村付近では、大きな天狗の面を作り、村人が鉦や太鼓で囃したてながら隣村へと順に送り、山奥深くまで送っていく天狗祭がある。天狗が村里に出現して人畜に該をなすのを封ずるためであるという。明治初年まで行われていたらしい。

ubakiri ishi 姥切石
昔、石の傍らで悶死した女の霊が石に乗り移った。夜中になると石は人肌ほどに暖かくなり、奇声を発した。京都の高僧が歌を詠み、喝を入れるとそうならなくなった。その石は姥切石と呼ばれた。

zengashi iwa 膳貸岩
養老塚という石がある。法要のあるときに必要な数の膳椀を頼めば、翌日には岩の上に希望の数だけ膳椀があった。ある時1つを破損して岩上に返したためにそれ以来借りられなくなった。

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TENGU - Tengu no Dairi Palace Emaki

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Tengu no Dairi 天狗の内裏 The Palace of the Tengu
'The Palace of the Long-Nosed Goblins'

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This is a story about the young Minamoto no Yoshitsune, who is taken on a tour of the underworld by a Tengu from Mount Kurama.
Written in the Muromachi period.
This story exists in numerous lavish picture scrolls and woodblock-printed editions in libraries and museums around the world.

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Ushiwaka's "Visit to Supernatural Regions (Tengu no dairi)
In this story, Ushiwaka learns of the existence of a tengu palace deep in the mountains and by offering prayers to Bishamon succeeds in visiting it.
The Great Tengu welcomes him hospitably and offers to take him to see Yoshitomo (his father), who has been reborn in the Pure Land as a Buddha. Following a tour of the 136 Buddhist hells, the two finally reached the Pure Land.
Yoshitomo urges Ushiwaka to destroy the Heike and then predicts his future.
Back in the Tengu palace, Ushiwaka and the Great Tengu exchange pupil-teacher vows
and Ushiwaka returns to Kurama.
Yoshitsune: A Fifteenth-century Japanese Chronicle
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Tengu no dairi emaki 天狗の内裏絵巻
picture scroll of the palace of the long-nosed goblins,
illustrated manuscript in 2 rolls, telling the story of the young Minamoto Yoshitsune
and of his visit to the court of Tengu.







Yoshitsune watches the Tengu fighting


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EDO - Horikiri district Iris Park

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Horikiri district 掘切 "digging a moat"
Horikiri mura 掘切村 Horikiri village




A district in . Katsushika ward 葛飾区 .

During the Kamakura period,
the land between the rivers 江戸川 Edogawa and 中川 Nakagawa belonged to the clan of
葛西三郎 / 葛西清重 Kasai Saburo Kiyoshige (1161 - 1238).
The land was more of a swamp in constant danger of floodings.
One of Kasai's retainers, 御城蔵人正房 Oshiro Kurando Masafusa had his castle built there,
with a moat around it, but it was later abandoned.
The place was also called 御城地（みじょうち）Mijo-Chi.
In the Muromachi period, remains of the old moats were found and the area got the name "Horikiri".
In the Edo period, villagers begun to use the swamps to plant flowers that need a lot of water.
A gardener named 伊左衛門 Izaemon collected iris seeds from all parts of Japan.
His son continued the collection and by 1835, they grew more than 180 different types.

The area became quite famous for its Iris during the Edo period and many visitors came.


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Famous Places in Edo, Hundred Beautiful Women, Horikiri Shōbu
(Edo Meisho Hyaku-nin Bijo Horikiri Shōbu)



The iris is an essential flower for the Tango Festival. Irises were like a protective amulet to the people of Edo who feared epidemics and diseases in the run up to summer and the practices of drinking iris sake as well as submerging oneself in iris bath were carried out in the belief that it would also dispel evil and have an effect against poisoning from snakes and insects.
It is not known when irises were brought to Horikiri.


Hiroshige

A marshy area where a branch of the 綾瀬川 Ayase-gawa River flows, it is perfect for cultivation of the Japanese iris. At the beginning of the 19th century, the farmer Iza'emon began cultivation of the Japanese iris, and at the end of the Edo Period, a wide variety of iris plants thrived and bloomed here. This created iris gardens which many of the people of Edo came to see.

It is said by some that Shogen Miyata, the retainer of an estate steward of the area, Taneo Kubodera in the Muromachi period, had irises brought from the Asaka marsh (present day Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture) and started cultivating them and it is also said by some that during the Bunka period (1804-1818), a local farmer called Izaemon was interested in irises and received varieties including 'juni-hitoe' from Rokusaburo Mannen, the local hatamoto, 'hagoromo' and 'tatsutagawa' from the iris lover Sakingo Matsudaira, and began cultivating the irises.


Toyokuni

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The district is famous to our day for its 堀切菖蒲園 Iris Park.





Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858)

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The village of Horikiri was known for producing flowers for the Edo market.
While the gardeners of Horikiri grew a year-round variety of flowers, the fame of the place derived from the flower represented here, a type of iris known as hanashōbu that was ideally suited to the area's swampy land. In the immediate foreground are three carefully detailed specimens. In the distance, sightseers from Edo may be seen admiring the blossoms. Hiroshige noted that so many lovely women from Edo came to view the blossoms that it was difficult to distinguish which were the real flowers.
- source : artsandculture.google.com/asset




Utagawa Toyokuni 3rd. 三代歌川豊国 - 堀切菖蒲花盛図




Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849)


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. Horikiri Shōbu 掘切菖蒲 .
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. shoobu 菖蒲 Shobu iris .
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hanashoobu 花菖蒲 Iris Flower,Iris　ensata
shoobu mi 菖蒲見（しょうぶみ）viewing Shobu
shobu ta 菖蒲田（しょうぶた）field with Shobu

shoobu en 菖蒲園（しょうぶえん）Shobu-En, Shobu park, Iris Park


The long leaves of the iris (shoobu) reminded the Samurai of their swords.
The word SHOOBU　勝負 also means a fight, usually to the death.

***** . seasonal festival of the iris .
菖蒲の節句 shoobu no sekku
The Boy's Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, now May 5.


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Other villages in Edo with the word hori, -bori - moat

新堀村 Niibori mura
船堀村 Funabori mura
樋堀村 Hibori mura
横堀村 Yokobori mura

. Horiechoo, Horie choo 堀江町 Horie Cho district .


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Shobu Daruma 菖蒲達磨 for good luck
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PERSONS - Hayakawa Noritsugu Tokuji

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Hayakawa Noritsugu 早川徳次（のりつぐ）
(1881 - 1942)
(The characters 徳次 can also be read Tokuji, see below.)

He is renowned for funding the construction of Japan's first subway system, now known as the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, which opened in 1927.



「地下鉄の父」 The Father of the Subway in Tokyo


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Noritsugu Hayakawa, builder of Asia's first underground railway, is considered the father of subways in Japan.
Hayakawa
was an apprentice of "railway king" Kaichiro Nezu, the founder of Tobu Railways.
Impressed by the subways he saw while touring Europe in the 1910s, upon his return to Japan Hayakawa began fiercely lobbying for Tokyo to build its own system.
After obtaining a license, he established the Tokyo Underground Railway Co. in 1920. The first underground rail link connected Asakusa and Ueno in 1927.
This is now known as the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.
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だるまは鼻の下にひげを生やし . . . Daruma with a beard in his honor - 2018

A group of about 50 local people has formed in 2017, making papermachee Daruma dolls.



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日本で最初に地下鉄を建設し、「地下鉄の父」と呼ばれた笛吹市出身の早川徳次（のりつぐ）（１８８１～１９４２）の住宅の見学会が７日に開かれる。地元の市民グループ「早川徳次ふるさと後援会」が主催し、ひげを生やしていた徳次の顔をかたどったミニだるまづくりを初めて計画。ふるさとの偉人に親しみを感じてもらい、地域の活性化にもつなげたい考えだ。
後援会は２０１７年に発足し、会員約５０人。地元出身の早川徳次の功績紹介と地域振興を目的に活動している。早川邸は「早川家住宅主屋」として国の登録有形文化財に選ばれている。後援会が年２回開く見学会では、普段は非公開の邸内を見ることができる。
ミニだるまを考案したのは甲州市在住の自営業、渡辺麻世さん（２８）。アクセサリーなどを趣味で手作りしている。昨年夏、知人の後援会メンバーと会食した際、徳次の業績について話を聞いた。祖父母の家が早川邸の近くにあり、「身近なところにすごい人がいたんだ」と驚き、何か手伝えることがあればと思いついた。



だるまは鼻の下にひげを生やし…
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Hayakawa Tokuji 早川徳次
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Tokuji Hayakawa (早川 徳次 Hayakawa Tokuji, November 3, 1893 - June 24, 1980)
was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Hayakawa Kinzoku Kōgyō (the present-day Sharp Corporation). He invented and patented the "Tokubijō" belt buckle in 1912 (a belt which can fasten without perforating) and invented the "Ever Ready Sharp" mechanical pencil (from which his company would later get its name from) in 1915.

The success of the "Tokubijō" belt buckle led to Hayakawa starting his own metallurgical processing, which then developed into the present-day Sharp Corporation.

Tokuji Hayakawa was born in Tokyo in 1893. Due to difficult domestic circumstances, he was adopted by the Ideno family. It was not until he grew up, however, that he learned of this. He left primary school after second grade due to his family's poverty, and was apprenticed to a maker of metallic ornaments. He worked diligently there to improve both his skill in metalwork and understanding of the trade, earning the trust of his master.

Though the buckle had been used since ancient times for such accessories as armor and shoes, it started to be used on belts for boys' trousers in the 15th century and came to be used in women's clothes in the 19th century. It took two forms: practical and decorated. When Hayakawa launched his buckle in 1912, demand in Japan for the buckle increased with the spread of Western-style fashions.

Hayakawa and other artisans, however, had not yet had a chance to wear Western-style clothes and belts.
Hayakawa happened to notice a silent film actor whose belt had come undone. This inspired him to spend time after work inventing a new belt that could be fastened to any length.

As a result, he developed a buckle that used a roller to fasten a belt without puncturing it. His master admired his inventiveness and recommended that Tokuji apply for a patent. He suggested the name "Tokubijō" adopting one character of Tokuji.

The first order for the Tokubijō buckle was huge — 33 grosses or 4,752 in total. Because of the pressures to deliver his product on time, Tokuji decided to go independent. He borrowed most of the capital independently and launched his own shop in September, 1912. He introduced industrial presses, hired workmen and delivered new orders with no interruption. He was able to promptly retire his debt. He continued to improve his manufacturing process and expand his business into a bigger plant.

In 1913, Hayakawa acquired the patent of an innovative water faucet, and in 1915, he developed the prototype of the sharp automatic pencil still sold today. Afterwards he demonstrated managerial genius, expanding his enterprise into electronics manufacturing of world-famous radios, tape-recorders and televisions. He was active in social welfare programs. He died in 1980 at the age of 86.
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