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29 Sept 2022

TEMPLE - Jiganji Kannon Yamacho

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Jiganji Kannon Yamacho

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Jiganji 慈眼寺 Jigan-Ji, Yamacho
瑞應山 Zuiozan　慈眼寺Jiganji

神奈川県横浜市緑区寺山町229 / Kanagawa, Yokohama city, Midori ward, Yamacho town

The Kannon statue is 十一面観 Juichimen Kannon.

The main statue is 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O.

The date of the founding is not clear.
It used to be called 観音院 Kannon-In with a statue of 観音如来 Kannon Nyorai.
Later the main statue of Fudo Myo-O was installed.

The Kannon Hall 観音堂.

The Kannon Statue in the compound.

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shuin　朱印 stamp : 十一面大士

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This temple is Nr. 29 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 .

. Juichimen Kannon 十一面観音 Senju Kannon 千手観音 Kannon with 11 faces and 1000 arms .

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....................................................................... Nagano 長野県　
伊那市 Ina city

. tanuki 狸 - mujina 狢－ racoon dog, badger legends .
Once upon a time, on an evening before the house was to be rebuilt,
the grandparents were in the back room and the children were eating dinner there.
The parents were working near the fire place.
Nearby was 慈眼寺 the Temple Chigan-Ji with a great tree in the compound.
The parents heard the sound of the great tree falling down.
They got terribly afraid and rushed to the back room but there nobody had heard anything.
A tanuki had come to the back of the hearth and used its tail to hit the pillars and the floor.

....................................................................... Saitama 埼玉県　
さいたま市 Saitama city 西区 Nishi ward

. Yao Bikuni 八百比丘尼（やおびくに） .
"eight-hundred (years) Buddhist priestess") or Happyaku Bikuni
at the temple 慈眼寺 Jigen-Ji.

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28 Sept 2022

TEMPLE - Renjoji Yakushi Uchiyama

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Renjoji Yakushi Uchiyama

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Renjooji 蓮城寺 Renjo-Ji, Uchiyama
有智山 Yuchizan 蓮城寺 Renjoji

大分県豊後大野市三重町内山527 / Oita, Bungo Ono city, Miemachi, Uchiyama

The Yakushi statue is Sentai Yakushi 千体薬師 One Thousand Yakushi Statues.

The Yakushi Hall　薬師堂.

Yakushi Sanzon 薬師三尊 Yakushi and two side statues

Another statue is 内山観音 Uchiyama Kannon.
千手観音 Senju Kannon Statue, 96 cm high.

The date of the founding is not clear.
This is the only temple with 1000 statues of Yakushi Nyorai in Japan.
They were maybe made in the Muromachi period (1336 - 1573).

In the compound is kosodate Jizo 子育て地蔵 Jizo Bosatsu to bring up children

In the compound is also a statue of Hannya Hime 般若姫 Princess Hannya.

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Also on the following pilgrimages :
Renjoji is temple 27 on the Shingon Kyushu 108 temple Pilgrimage
The official version of the introduction of Buddhism into Japan has the king of Paekche sending a statue to the Yamato court in the mid 6th Century, but that ignores the fact that northern Kyushu and the Japan Sea coast, much closer to the peninsula, had extensive contacts and interactions with Korea, and it seems highly unlikely that Buddhism did not appear in these areas before then.
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This temple is Nr. 17 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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LEGENDS - Unsui itinerant monk

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unsui monk legends

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unsui 雲水と伝説 Legends about itinerant monks

. kooun ryuusui 行雲流水 "wandering monk", Unsui .
komusoo 虚無僧　伝説 Komuso legends about begging mendikant monks

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......................................................................................... Aichi 愛知県

zenchoo 前兆 an omen
When the uncle of the villager was still small, he often went to 龍潭寺 the temple Ryotan-Ji

to stay over night and play.
Once he heard a frightening sound at the main hall.
The unsui 雲水 itinerant monk staying there said:
"This is an omen. Tomorrow someone will die!"
And indeed the next day a dead person was carried to the temple.

尾張三十三観音Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples in Owari - Nr. 18

......................................................................................... Fukushima 福島県
須賀川市 Sukagawa city 小倉 Kokura

. daija, orochi 大蛇 a huge serpent, great snake .
Since there lived daija 大蛇 a huge serpent on 雲水峯 Mount Unsuimine, nobody was allowed to climb up there before the official opening of the mountain on July 15. The mountain is on the border of 郡山市田村町 Tamura town in Fukushima and 須賀川市塩田 Oda in Sukagawa city.
It is 677 m high.

......................................................................................... Gunma 群馬県
北群馬郡 Kita-Gunma district 子持村 Komochi village

. kozoo 小僧と伝説 Legends about temple acolytes and youngsters .
At 双林寺 the temple Sorin-Ji there is a statue of a kozoo 小僧 young temple acolyte.
He once asked ritual question to the unsui 雲水 itinerant monk.
As punishment, his arm was broken.

......................................................................................... Miyagi 宮城県
仙台市 Sendai city

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
In a district below the castle of Sendai there lived a Samurai
named 勝又弥左衛門 Katsumata Yazaemon who was very skillfull in hunting foxes.
Once an old fox shape-shifted into unsui 雲水 an itinerant monk
and asked him not to kill foxes any more, but he was killed.
Once there came a white fox with a message from the Deity 明神 Myojin,
but he was also driven away and killed.
. another version of this legend .

......................................................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県
御前崎市Omaezaki city

. neko 猫 / ねこと伝説 Legends about cats, Katzen .
At the Temple 西林院 Seirin-In in Omaezaki there lived a monk who had once helped a cat.
The cat kept living at the temple.
Once a monk was taking a nap on the veranda and the cat was near, looking at the garden.
A cat from the neighbourhood came and asked the temple cat to come with it make 伊勢参り a pilgrimage to Ise.
The monk thought this was strange.
That night he heard a strange noise from the ceiling.
An unsui 雲水 an itinerant monk who stayed at the temple also woke up from the noise.
When he checket the ceiling next morning, he found the temple cat and the neighbourL's cat laying in their blood.
And a mouse waring the robes of an Unsui was dead on the floor.

......................................................................................... Yamagata 山形県
最上郡 Mogami district 真室川町 Mamurogawa town

bakemono 化物 a monster
The temple 正源寺 Shogen-Ji　was abandoned and without a priest.
Monsters had come to live there.
Once unsui 雲水 an itinerant monk stayed over night at the temple.　
He was strong and drove the monsters away.　
The villagers were very greatful and asked the monk to stay there at the temple.　

......................................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県
山梨市 Yamanashi city

. Unsui at 長源寺 the Temple Chogen-Ji. .

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. Persons, People, Personen and their legends - - ABC list .

. Japanese legends and tales 伝説　民話　昔話 - Introduction .

- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -

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27 Sept 2022

TEMPLE - Chogenji Kannon Kamikawai

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Chogenji Kannon Kamikawai

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Choogenji 長源寺 Chogen-Ji, Kamikawai
川井山 Kawaizan 　観音院 Kannon-In 長源寺 Chogenji

神奈川県横浜市旭区上川井町214 / Kanagawa, Yokohama city, Asahi ward, Kami-Kawai town

The Kannon statue is 十一面観音 Juichimen Kannon.
長源寺観音堂 Kannon Hall

The main statue is a seated 大日如来 Dainichi Nyorai.
It was made in 1513 by 印融 Enyu (1435 - 1519).
Enyu was born in Yokohama, 緑区三保町 Midori ward, Miho Town.
He studied carving at 三會寺 the Temple Sanei-Ji and at 鶴岡八幡宮 the Shrine Tsurugaoka Hachimangu in Kamakura.
He also studied at 高野山で Mount Koyasan.
He later returned to the Kanto area and stayed at 三會寺 the Temple Sanei-Ji

The date of the founding of Temple Chogen-Ji is not clear.

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長源寺（福井県小浜市）

....................................................................... Nagano　長野県
飯田市 Iida city 箕瀬町 Minoze town

kooryuu 蛟龍，Shichimen Sama 七面様，Kissho Tennyo 吉祥天女
箕瀬町長源寺の七面様の由来は、建治３年（１２７６）１２月の或る夜、日蓮聖人が身延山で説法を行った。その一座に歳１８，９の少女がいた。聖人が尋ねると、少女は仏勅を受け仏法を守護する吉祥天女だという。少女は聖人に水を乞いこれを与えると、二丈ばかりの蛟龍となって西に飛び去った。これが現在の七面大明神である。

....................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県　
山梨市 Yamanashi city

kani 蟹 crab
Once upon a time, a strange unsui 雲水 itinerant monk came visiting
the priest at 長源寺 the Temple Chogen-Ji.
When the priest could not answer the question of the monk, he hit his head and left.
Very soon the priest died of the wound of his head.
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TEMPLE - Chogakuin Fudo Ryoke

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Chogakuin Fudo Ryoke

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Choogakuin 長覺院 Chogaku-In, Ryoke
西林山 Seirinzan 長覺院 Chogakuin 浄泰寺 Jodai-Ji

神奈川県さいたま市浦和区領家4-20-3 / Saitama city, Urawa district, Ryoke

The main statue is 阿弥陀如来像 Amida Nyorai.

The temple was founded in 830 by 慈覚大師 Priest Ennin.
In the Edo period it was a terakoya 寺小屋 Temple school.
Now it in the compound of 浦和市立木崎小学校 Kisaki primary school in Urawa.
. Jigaku Daishi Ennin 慈覚大師仁円 (794 - 867) .

. Bussokuseki 仏足石 Buddha's footprints .

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Also on the following pilgrimage :

. 新秩父34観音 34 Kannon Temples in Chichibu . - Nr. 19

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This Temple is Nr. 13 of the
. Adachi 100 Fudo Temples 足立百不動尊霊場 Pilgrimage .

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. Kita Adachi 88 Fudo Temples 北足立八十八ヵ所霊場 .

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TEMPLE - Sanbutsuji Kannon Yokohama

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Sanbutsuji Kannon Honmura

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Sanbutsuji 三佛寺 Sanbutsu-Ji, Honmura
鶴峰山 Kakureizan 即相院 Sosoku-In 三佛寺 Sanbutsuji

神奈川県横浜市旭区本村町76 / Kanagawa, Yokohama city, Asahi ward, Honmura town

The Kannon statue is 聖観世音菩薩 Sho Kannon Bosatsu.
The main statue is 阿弥陀如来像 Amida Nyorai.

The temple was originally called 観音寺 Kannon-Ji.
Beside Kannon, there were halls for of Amida Nyorai, Yakushi Nyorai and Jizo Bosatsu.
Since these were three statues, the temple was called Sanbutsu-Ji, "Temple for three Buddhas."
In 1603, it was founded by 誉檀察上人 Saint Tenyo Dansatsu.
The temple was founded on request of 宅間治部少輔親富 Takuma Jibu , who died in 1621.

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sooban nenbutsu 双盤念仏 "Special Drum Nenbutsu"
October 27

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24 Aug 2022

EDO - Meguro Mochibana

https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2013/05/meguro.html

. Meguro Fudo Temple 目黒不動 .
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Joojuu-in 成就院（ Tako Yakushi たこ薬師）Temple Joju-In

mochibana 餅花 New Year's decoration of willow, etc. branches with colored rice balls
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Meguro Fudo Mochibana 目黒不動餅花

Meguro Fudō is a Fudō hall of Taiei-zan Ryūzen-ji, a temple of the Tendai Buddhist sect.
The worship of Fudō (the Buddhist deity Acala) had been fluorishing among common people since the Edo period,
and Meguro Fudō became one of the most popular destinations for pilgrims
as well as those seeking entertainment near Edo.
The temple town was always full of visitors.
This was one of the 江戸の三冨 'Edo-Santomi', three shrines that sold official shogunate 富くじ tomikuji tickets (lottery in the Edo period).
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. Meguro Temple Rakan-Ji 目黒の羅漢寺 500 Arhats .

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23 Aug 2022

LEGENDS - kaiko mysterious light

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kaiko mysterious light

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kaikoo 怪光 Kaiko, mysterious light

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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

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tooji トージ / トウジ Toji light
A mysterious light that appears during a strong rainstorm and typhoon.
Also called 怪光 Kaiko - mysterious light.

.......................................................................　Mie 三重県 .....

gotsutaibi, gotsu taibi ごつたいび very large light
A mysterious light that appears during a strong rainstorm and typhoon.
Also called 怪光 Kaiko - mysterious light.

.......................................................................　Nagasaki 長崎県 .....
諫早市 Isahaya city

Inadahime 稲田姫 and kaikoo 怪光 a mysterious light
In the year 1570 in 田結村 Tayui village there was a great storm.
All the harvested rice in the fields was on the verge to be blown away.
The divine spirit of 稲田姫 Inada Hime appeared and during the night
kaikoo 怪光 a mysterious light could be seen wandering in the fields.
The next morning the storm subsided and the water flew away.
And all the rice plants were hanging on bamboo poles as they should.

Inada hime no mikoto 稲田姫命（いなだひめのみこと）
. Kushinadahime - Kushinada hime 櫛名田媛 / Inadahime 稲田姫 .

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Nagasaki 北高来郡 Kita-Takaki district 高来町 Takaki town

sesshobashi 殺生橋 the murder bridge
At night there was 怪光 kaiko – a mysterious light at sesshobashi 殺生橋 "the murder bridge"
ahd make people crazy and kill themselves.
Gyoki Bosatsu cut the wooden bridge in seven parts and let them flow downriver.
Where the wood was found, he came to carve a statue of 観音菩薩　Kannon Bosatsu
and place it in a small sanctuary.
. Gyooki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu (668 - 749) .

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静岡市 Shizuoka city

kusu no ki 楠 a camphor tree
At the camphor tree at 法明寺 the temple Homyo-Ji there was 怪光 Kaiko – a mysterious light
and the Emperor became ill.
On the request of a diviner, Gyoki Bosatsu was called.
He carved seven statues of 観音菩薩　Kannon Bosatsu from seven trees
and placed them in a sanctuary.
The Emperor recovered soon after.
kusu no ki 楠木 camphor tree

法明寺 the temple Homyo-Ji

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22 Aug 2022

TEMPLE - Shofukuji Fudo Kamikizaki

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Shofukuji Fudo Kamikizaki

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Shoofukuji 正福寺 Shofuku-Ji, Kami-Kizaki
光珠山 Kogyokuzan 無量院 Muryo-In 正福寺 Shofukuji

埼玉県さいたま市浦和区上木崎7-19-1 / Saitama city, Urawa ward, Kamikizaki

The main statue is 正観世音菩薩 Sho Kannon Bosatsu.

The date of the founding is not clear.
It is mentioned in the manuscript 新編武蔵風土記稿 Shinpen Musashi Fudoki Ko.
Manuscript of the Gazetteer of the Province of Musashi

正福寺鐘楼 the Bell Tower of Temple Shofuku-Ji

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Also on the following pilgrimage :

、新秩父三十四ヶ所霊場、/ 新秩父34観音 New 34 Temples in Chichibu - Nr. 19
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This Temple is Nr. 12 of the
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21 Aug 2022

TEMPLE - Jingoji Yakushi Oita

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Jingoji Yakushi Kunimune

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Jingoji 神護寺 Jingo-Ji, Kunimune
宝劒山 Hokenzan 神護寺 Jingoji

大分県大分市鶴崎国宗654 / Oita, Oita city, Tsurusaki, Kunimune

The main statue is 阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai.

観音菩薩 Kannon Bosatsu in the compound

The temple was founded in 1527 by 中栄 Priest Chuei.
In 1641 it was renovated by 細川光尚 Hosokawa Mitsunao , the lord of 肥後熊本藩 the Higo Kumamoto Domaine.
Later it was associated with 劒八幡宮 Shrine Tsurugi Hachimangu (Ken Hachimangu).

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細川光尚 Hosokawa Mitsunao (1619 - 1650)

Mitsunao was born in 1619, and was the eldest son of Hosokawa Tadatoshi.
In 1637, he joined his father in the effort to subdue the Shimabara Rebellion, and fought with distinction.
Succeeding his father in 1641, he became daimyō of the Kumamoto Domain.
Mitsunao's suppression of the Abe family's revolt in 1642 is famous,
due to its fictionalization by Mori Ōgai.
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This temple is Nr. 14 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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阿蘇市 Aso city

okamekamisama お上神様 / オカメカミサマ O-Kame Kamisama
The priest of 神護寺 the Temple Jingo-Ji in the compound of 阿蘇神社 Shrine Aso Jinja
had fallen in love with a woman named オカメ O-Kame and went to see her every night.
The other priests caught them, threw them in a hole and threw stones at them till they died.
Since then, when a girl was born in the home town of O-Kame,
it died before reaching adulthood.
The villagers were afraid and called the two お上神様 the Venerable O-Kame Kamisama.
. Aso jinja 阿蘇神社 Aso Shrine .

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20 Aug 2022

TEMPLE - Kangoji Kannon Yokohama

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Kangoji Kannon Oyama

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Kangoji 観護寺 Kango-Ji, Oyama
補蛇洛山 Fudarakuzan 龍光院 Ryuko-In　観護寺 Kangoji

神奈川県横浜市緑区小山町677-9 / Kanagawa, Yokohama city, Midori ward, Oyama town

The Kannon statue is 聖観世音菩薩 Sho Kannon.
The main statue is　薬師如来 Yakushi Nnyorai.
The date of the founding is not clear.
The building was restored in 1533.
It is a sub-temple of 三會寺 Sannen-Ji in 橘樹郡 the Tachibana district.
Around 1650 it was added to 杉山神社 the Shrine Sugiyama Jinja.
The locals call it Fujimidera 富士見寺 a Temple to see Mount Fuji.

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Also on the following pilgrimage :

. Buso Toradoshi 25 Yakushi Pilgrimage 武相寅歳薬師如来霊場 . - Nr. 03

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