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Japanese Deities

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Japanese Deities

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.................. Introducing Buddha Statues

History of Buddha Statues in Japan 仏像の歴史

.. .. .. .. .. .. .. The Nyorai Group 如来

Amida Buddha 阿弥陀如来

Dainichi Nyorai 大日如来 The Great Sun, Center of the Universe

O-Take Nyorai お竹如来

Shaka Nyorai 釈迦如来　Gautama Buddha

Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来、Buddha of Medicine

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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. The Bosatsu Group 菩薩

. Bosatsu 菩薩　Bodhisattva Group .

Fugen Bosatsu 普賢菩薩（ふげんぼさつ) (Samantabhadra)
and the white Elephant

Hoki Bosatsu, Hooki Bosatsu 法起菩薩 ... "Hoodoo Sennin" 法道仙人, Temple Bodaiji 菩提寺, Saint Tokudo 徳道上人

... ... ... Jizo Bosatsu　地蔵菩薩

Ajimi Jizo 嘗試地蔵 and Kobo DaishiKoya san

Jizo as Jigoku Bosatsu 地獄菩薩, Namu Jigoku Daibosatsu
南無地獄大菩薩

Asekaki Jizoo, the Sweating Jizo 汗かき地蔵

Hadaka Jizoo Naked Jizo　裸地蔵

Hooroku Jizoo ほうろく地蔵 with an earthen pot on his head
(Horoku Jizo 焙烙地蔵)

Miso Jizoo 広島のみそ地蔵

O-Bake Jizoo 化け地蔵 the monstrous Jizo statues Nikko

Omokaru Jizoo, Heavy or Light Jizo おもかる地蔵、重軽地蔵

Shinpei-Ji 心平寺　地蔵　 Kencho-Ji, Kamakura

Shioname Jizo 塩嘗地蔵 Salt-tasting Jizo in Kamakura

Yonaki Jizo and babies crying at night 夜泣き地蔵

... ... ... Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩

Batoo Kannon, Horseheaded Kannon 馬頭観音

Hakodate 33 Kannon Pilgrimage 西国移土三十三観音, 函館市湯川寺

Hatakiri Kannon はたきり観音さん, Shikoku Henro 10

Jundei Kannon, Juntei Kannon 准胝観音 Mother of all Buddhas
准胝仏母（じゅんていぶっぽ）

Nyoirin Kannon, Wishfulfilling Kannon如意輪観音
..... Seiryuu Gongen, Dragon Deity Zennyo 清瀧権現

O-Shichi Kannon お七観音 at temple Tanjo-Ji in Okayama 誕生寺 (Tanjooji)

Senju Kannon, with 1000 Arms and Juuichimen Kannon with 11 heads 千手観音, 十一面観音

Shichimen Kannon 七面観音 Nichiren and Mount Minobu
Shichimen Daibosatsu 七面大菩薩

Usuzumi Kannon, Light Charcoal Cherry Tree Kannon 薄墨観音

Kokuuzoo Bosatsu 虚空蔵菩薩 Kokuzo Bosatsu
Akashagarbha Bodhisattva.
Bodhisattva of Wisdom and Memory

Maso Bosatsu, Senrigan and Junpuji 媽祖菩薩, 千里眼, 順風耳

Memyo Bosatsu 馬鳴菩薩. Ashvagosha

Miroku Bosatsu 弥勒菩薩 Maitreya

Monju Bosatsu 文殊菩薩　Manjushri

Myoken Bosatsu (Myooken Bosatsu) 妙見菩薩
and Star Shrines in Japan, Hoshi Jinja 星神社

Seishi Bosatsu 勢至菩薩 Mahasthamaprapta

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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. The Myo-O Group 明王の部

Aizen Myo-O　愛染明王

Daigensui 大元帥明王 Taigen (Atavaka)

Daiitoku Myo-O 大威徳明王 Yamaantaka

. . . . Fudo Myo-O ... see above

Goosanze Myo-O 降三世明王 Gosanze Trilokavijaya

Kujaku Myo-O 孔雀明王 The Pheasant Wisdom King　

Ususama Myo-O 烏瑟沙摩明王
Ucchusma, deity of the toilet

Zao Gongen 蔵王権現

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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. The Ten Group, Tenbu 天部

Ashura, Asura (あしゅら) 阿修羅

Benzaiten　弁財天, Benten 弁天 Benzai-Ten
..... Benten and the Gods of Water

Bishamonten、Tamonten 多聞天 (Vaishravana) 毘沙門天、毘沙門の使ひ

Daikoku Ten 大黒天 Daikoku sama

Dairokuten Ma-O ... 第六天魔王, 大六天 Take Jizaiten 他化自在天

Datsueba 奪衣婆 or 脱衣婆 the Old Hag of Hell

Ebisu ... 夷　恵比寿　恵比須　えびす、エビス God of Good Luck

Enma Ten, Enma Oo (Emma): The King of Hell閻魔天、閻魔王
..... The Ten Kings of Hell, Juu Oo 十王

Gigeiten 伎芸天 Daijizai Tennyo 大自在天女 and
Daijizai Ten 大自在天 (Shiva)

Hotei 布袋 Pu-Tai

Idaten 韋駄天 (Skanda)

Juuni Shinshoo 十二神将　Twelve Heavenly Generals,
12 Warrior Generals

Kankiten (Ganesh) Elephant-headed deity

Kichijoten 吉祥天 Kichijooten (Lakshmi, Shri Mahadevi)

Kishibojin　鬼子母神, Kishimojin, Kangimo, Kariteimo 訶梨帝母

Marishiten 摩利支天 Marishi Ten

Nio, Deva Kings 仁王 (Nioo, Niou)

Shomen Kongo 青面金剛 Shoomen Kongoo

Taishakuten, Taishaku Ten 帝釈天
Indra, Sakra Deva, Shakra Devanam Indra
and the Koshin Cult (kooshin 庚申, ka no e saru)

The Gods of the four elements 風水天地の神様
水神　Suijin, 風神 Fuujin, 地神 Chijin, 火神 Kajin

Seven Gods of Good Luck 七福神 Shichifukujin　

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Saints and holy figures

Binzuru 賓頭盧 (Pinzuru)

. MORE Fellow Pilgrims .

. Memorial Days of Poets .

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Hibutsu ... 秘仏 ... Secret and hidden Buddha statues

Temples and Shrines of Japan

Busshi 仏師 ... Buddhist Sculptors Gallery

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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. Shinto Deities 神道の神様

..... The Gods of Japan and Haiku (kami to hotoke)

Akiba Gongen - 秋葉権現現Akibagongen at Mt. Akiba

Amenooshihomimi アメノオシホミミ
..... 正勝吾勝勝速日天忍穂耳尊
Masakakatsukachihayahi Amenooshihomimi no mikoto

Atago Gongen - 愛宕権現
to prevent fire

Ame-no-Uzume-no-mikoto (天宇受売命, 天鈿女命) Ame no Uzume, Ama no Uzume

Amaterasu Oomikami (Omikami) 天照大神

Aragamisama, Koojin sama 荒神様 Hearth Deity
Dokujin, dokoojin 土公神
Kamagami 釜神 The Hearth Deity in Miyagi

Arukigami 歩行神 the God of Wandering with Basho and Issa
Sozorogami そぞろ神 / Sowasowa no kami　そわそわの神

Bimbogami, Binboo Gami 貧乏神 God of Poverty

Byaku-I Gongen ... 飯山白衣権現White Kannon Gongen, at Ii no Yama

Daishoogun 大将軍神 Daishogun no kami, Lord of the Stars
His name is also 素戔鳴尊スサノオ Susano-O.

Eiyoo Gongen 栄誉権現 Venerable Guard Deity
a tanuki from Toshogu Shrine

Gozu Tenno, Ten-Oo 牛頭天王 Bull-headed King of Heaven
..... Japanese god of the plague, Gion Festival Kyoto.
Gooo, Go-Oo, Go-O 牛王

Hachiman Shin 八幡神 and Hachiman Daibosatsu 八幡大菩薩）

Hakusan Shichi Gongen 白山七権現
Hakusan shinkoo 白山信仰 Hakusan faith. Shirayama shrines

Hitokotonushi 一言主 "God of One Word" at Katsuragi Mountain, 一言主神社

Hoosoogami, Hoosooshin 疱瘡神 God of Smallpox, Hosogami

Iizuna no Gongen 飯網の権現 ... at Iizuna Mountain, Izuna Gongen

Ichikishima hime 市杵島姫 Ichikishima Hime-no-Kami (市杵島姫神)
Tagitsu Hime-no-Kami (湍津姫神)
Tagori Hime-no-Kami (田心姫神)
and the Munakata shrines 宗像大社 Munakata Taisha

Inari Myojin 稲荷明神

Iwakamutsukari no Mikoto 磐鹿六雁命 God of the Kitchen Knife and Cooking
高家神社 Takabe Shrine, Chiba

Jinguu Koogoo 神功皇后 Empress Jingu Kogo

Jinmu Tenno 神武天皇 First Emperor Jimmu

Kappa Daimyojin 河童大明神 Great Deity Kappa

Kimon Konjin 鬼門金神 and Kitamuki Fudo 北向き不動... Fudo facing North. also Kitamuki Kannon, Kitamuki Jizo and others. the "Demon Gate", kimon

Konpira Daigongen . 金毘羅大権現 Kompira Daigongen . Kotohira, Shikoku

Kotoamatsukami 別天津神 "distinguishing heavenly kami"
zooka no sanjin 造化の三神 three deities of creation
Ame no minaka nushi no kami 天之御中主神
Takamimusuhi no kami 高御産巣日神
Kami musuhi no kami 神産巣日神

Kuni no Tokotachi no mikoto 国常立尊主神 Kunitokotachi

Mikumari, Mikomori Myōjin 御子守明神
御子守 - Mikomori Sannyoshin 御子守三女神
Tamayorihime 玉依姫.
Mikumari jinja 水分神社

Magami 真神 ancient Wolf Deity and 太占 futomani divination

Nai no kami 地震神 God of Earthquakes

Niutsuhime 　丹生都比女。丹生都比売

Okunitama no Kami 大国魂神
Yamato no Ookuni Tama no Kami 倭大国魂神
Yachihoko no Kami 八千矛神
Mi-Toshi no Kami 御年神

Omizunu no Kami 淤美豆奴神, 淤美豆奴命..
Legends of Izumo no Kuni. "God of Great Water"

Omodaru 於母陀流神, Ayakashikone and Dairoku Tenma O 第六天魔王

Ooyamatsumi 大山祇神, 大山積神, 大山津見神
Oyamatsumi no Mikoto

Sannoo 山王 Sanno, the "Mountain King"
and the Hiyoshi shrines 日吉神社. San-O, Sann-No,

Shichimen Daimyojin 七面大明神
Shichimen Tennyo (七面天女) celestial nymph
Heavenly Lady from Mount Shichimen

Shinba ... 神馬Horse of the Gods, jinme, 神駒(かみこま)

Shirosama, O-Shirosama, Kaikogami and other SILK related deities ...
蚕神, おしらさま, 蚕影明神 ...

Suijin, the God of Water 水神 . Suiten.　Mizu no Kamisama. Suitengu 水天宮

Sumiyoshi Myoojin 住吉明神 Sumiyoshi Myojin and Sumiyoshi Shrines in Japan 住吉神社 Sumiyoshi Jinja

. . Sun and Moon Deities of Japan Nitten, Gatten and more
日天,月天, 明星天子

Tamayorihime, Tamayoribime, Tamayori hime no mikoto 玉依姫命

Ta no Kami, Yama no Kami. Deities of the Fields and Mountains
田の神・山の神

Tokusa no Kandakara 十種神宝 The Ten Heavenly Treasures
Tokusanokamudakara

Toshigami 年神 God of the Year, Toshidon and other names

Toyoukehime no Kami 豊受大神 Toyouke no Ookami
Oogetsu Hime no Kami 大宜都比売神

Uba Gongen　姥権現Mount Iidesan

Umisachihiko 海幸彦 Hoteri no mikoto 火照命(ほでりのみこと)

Yakujin 厄神（やくじん） Yakujin Myo-O 厄神明王,
Mondo Yakujin 門戸厄神
"deity of preventing bad luck"
or
"deity to bring bad luck"

Yakubyoogami 疫病神 Deity to bring bad fortune and disease

Yamasachihiko 山幸彦 Hiko hohodemi no mikoto 彦火火出見尊

Yoshida Shinto 吉田神道
Yoshida Kanetomo 吉田兼倶(1435-1511)

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Fudo Myo-O Introduction

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Who is Fudo Myo-O, the Wisdom King ?

不動明王　Fudoo Myoo Oo, Fudou Myou Ou

Acala Vidyârâja
is one of the Vidyârâjas (Myôôs) class of deities, and a very wrathful deity.

He is portrayed holding a sword in his right hand and a coiled rope in his left hand. With this sword of wisdom, Acala cuts through deluded and ignorant minds and with the rope he binds those who are ruled by their violent passions and emotions. He leads them onto the correct path of self control. Acala is also portrayed surrounded by flames, flames which consume the evil and the defilements of this world. He sits on a flat rock which symbolizes the unshakeable peace and bliss which he bestows to the minds and the bodies of his devotees.

Purpose and Vows
Acala transmits the teachings and the injunctions of Mahâvairocana to all living beings and whether they agree to accept or to reject these injunctions is up to them, Acala's blue/black body and fierce face symbolize the force of his will to draw all beings to follow the teachings of the Buddha. Nevertheless, Acala's nature is essentially one of compassion and he has vowed to be of service to all beings for eternity.

Acala also represents his aspect of service by having his hair knotted in the style of a servant: his hair is tied into seven knots and falls down from his head on the left side. Acala has two teeth protruding from out of his mouth, an upper tooth and a lower tooth. The upper tooth is pointed downward and this represents his bestowing unlimited compassion who are suffering in body and spirit. His lower tooth is pointed upward and this represents the strength of his desire to progress upward in his service for the Truth. In his upward search for Bodhi and in his downward concern for suffering beings, he represents the beginning of the religious quest, the awakening of the Bodhicitta and the beginning of his compassionate concern for others.
It is for this reason that the figure of Acala is placed first among the thirteen deities (juusanbutsu 十三仏）.

His vow is to do battle with evil with a powerful mind of compassion and to work for the protection of true happiness. To pray for recovery from illness and for safety while traveling is to rely upon his vow and power to save. Acala is also the guide for the deceased, to help save them and assist them in becoming buddhas for the first seven days after death.

Read more about these 13 deities.
http://www.shingon.org/deities/jusanbutsu/fudo.html

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The 19 characteristics of Fudo Myo-O
... ... ... 19 Signs

Read more on this extensive page about Buddha Statues

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19 Signs

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19 Characteristic Signs of Fudo Myo-O

不動十九観 / 不動十九相観
Fudoo Juukyuu Sansoo
Fudo Jukyu Sanso

Just as Buddha Shakyamuni has 32 characteristic signs, Fudo Myo-O has 19.
They are described in documents of the Tendai sect like the following:

1 He is an incarnation of Dainichi Nyorai.
2 His Mantra has the four letters : a ro kan man .
3 He usually lives in a world of fire.
4 He has the figure of a fat young man, rather unpleasant.
5 He has seven knots in his hair and a lotos blossom on top of them.

6 On his left shoulder a plait of hair hangs down.
7 The wrinkles on his forehead look like water waves.
8 The left eye is closed, the right one wide open.
9 He bites his right upper lip with the lower teeth and his left lip protrudes.
10 He has his mouth shut strictly.

11 He carries a three-pronged sword in his right hand.
12 He carries a rope in his left hand.
13 He eats the leftover food of ascetic monks.
14 He stands or sits on a throne of stone.
15 His body color is of an unpleasant black-blue-green.

16 His look is fierce and threatening.
17 He has a firy Garuda bird on his halo.
18 A Kurikara Dragon is wrapped around his sword.
19 He has two child acolytes by his side.

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　天台僧安然が、「不動立印儀軌修行次第」により不動明王を想い従うために唱えたもの

　（１）大日如来の化身
　（２）真言中に、ア・ロ・カン・マンの４字がある
　（３）常に火生三昧（かしょうざんまい）に住んでいる
　（４）肥満した童子の姿で、卑しい
　（５）頭頂に七沙髻があり、蓮華をのせている

　（６）左肩に一弁髪を垂らす benpatsu
　（７）額に水波（すいは）のようなしわがある suiha
　（８）左の目を閉じ右の目を開いている
　（９）下の歯で右上の唇を噛み、左下の唇の外へ出している
　（10）口を硬く閉じている

　（11）右手に三鈷剣を持っている
　（12）左手に羂索を持っている
　（13）行者の残食を食べる
　（14）大磐石の上に安座している
　（15）色が醜く青黒

　（16）奮迅して憤怒している
　（17）光背に迦楼羅炎（かるらえん）がある
　（18）倶力迦羅竜が剣にまとわりついている
　（19）両脇に２童子が侍している
source : www.kyototsuu.jp

Buddha Shakyamuni
Signs of a Great Man 32 and 80

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Bosatsu Bodhisattva

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Bosatsu 菩薩　Bodhisattva

Bodhi = enlightened
Sattva = being, essence
The Compassionate Ones
Penultimate state before Buddhahood

Compassion is the defining characteristic of the Bodhisattva, whose highest aspiration is to save all sentient beings. The Bodhisattva concept is closely associated with Mahayana Buddhism, and has at least three distinct meanings. The Mahayana form in particular spread throughout Japan, thus most surviving Buddhist sculpture in Japan today belongs to the Mahayana tradition.

Read the details here :
source : - Mark Schumacher -

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Bosatsu Mandala

Individual Bosatsu introduced in the Daruma Museum

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芒から菩薩の清水流れけり
susuki kara bosatsu no shimizu nagare keri

from the pampas grass
the saint's pure water
flows

One year later, in 1809, Issa re-writes this

松風に菩薩の清水流れけり
matsukaze ni bosatsu no shimizu nagare-keri

wind through pines
pure bodhisattva water
flowing, flowing

in the pine breeze
the saint's pure water
flows

Kobayashi Issa
Tr. David Lanoue

There is a place called
Miroku Bosatsu no Shimizu 弥勒菩薩の清水
and above it
Sasa Shimizu 笹清水

at Mount Hotaka Yama 武尊山 in Gunma.

source : kakehashi

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松風にぼうたんの白菩薩かな
matsukaze ni bootan no haku bosatu kana

in the wind of the pines
a peony like a white
Bodhisattva

- Akegarasu sensei -

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B o s a t s u 　菩薩　(Bodhi-sattva)

Abkürzung des indischen Wortes Bodhi-sattva, japanisch:
bo dai sat ta = bosatsu.
Bedeutet Wesen, die nach oben zur Erleuchtung eines Buddha streben und gleichzeitig nach unten zur Errettung der Menschheit tätig werden (joogu bodai, gege shujoo).
Ein Bosatsu praktiziert Askese, um Buddha zu werden, bleibt aber einen Schritt vor diesem Ziel stehen, um zuerst alle Menschen zu erlösen. Dazu müssen die Bosatsu einen Askeseweg mit 10 Stufen überwinden (juuji) und vier Gelübde (shigu seigan) einhalten.

Bosatsu unterziehen sich einer strengen Askese mit sechs Vorschriften (rokuharamitsu, ropparamitsu; paaramitaas):

1. Almosen geben (fuse);
2. Einhalten der Vorschriften (jikai);
3. Beharrlichkeit (ninniku);
4. Energie (shoojin);
5. Meditation (zenjoo) und
6. Weisheit zur Erleuchtung (chie).

Ein Bosatsu, der alle diese Vorschriften beherzigt und dabei eine hohe Stufe erlangt, kann als Begleitfigur neben einem Nyorai stehen und wird im nächsten Leben sicher ein Buddha werden (fusho no bosatsu), z. B. Miroku.

Am besten bekannt in Japan sind Kannon und Jizoo, auch häufig als Stein-Statuen am Wegesrand zu finden. Bosatsu sind freundliche, hilfsbereite Gottheiten, die den Menschen in Not sofort direkt mit verschiedenen Mitteln und in den verschiedensten Inkarnationen zu Hilfe kommen.
Bosatsu finden sich als Begleitfiguren in Dreiergruppen mit Nyorai-Statuen.
Bosatsu wurde dann auch eine japanische Bezeichnung für besonders verehrenswerte heilige Priester oder japanische Gottheiten, z.B. wird der Asket En no Gyooja "Shinhen Daibosatsu (Jinpen Daibosatsu)" und der japanische Kriegsgott Hachiman "Hachiman Daibosatsu" genannt.
僧形八幡 soogyoo Hachiman, sogyo Hachiman, Hachiman as a Buddhist monk, Hachiman als buddhistischer Mönch.

Ikonografie:
Die Gestalt eines Bosatsu entspricht der des Prinzen Shakyamuni, bevor er sein Schloß verlassen hat, daher mit reichlich Schmuck an Brust (munakazari), Oberarmen (hisen), Hand- und Fußgelenken (wansen, sokusen); langes Perlengehänge um den ganzen Leib (yooraku).
Bei gegossenen Statuen werden diese Verzierungen mitgegossen, während sie bei Holzstatuen meist getrennt aus Metall gefertigt und angebracht werden.

Hoch aufgekämmte Haare bzw. ein Haarknoten (hookei) und Hohe Krone (Diadem) mit Blumenverzierungen (hookan, sanzankan, tenkan). Die Krone wird von einem besonderen Band (tenkandai) gehalten. Eine besondere Form ist eine bandartige Krone mit drei Zierteilen vorne und an beiden Seiten (sanmen tooshoku). In der Kamakura-Zeit wurden diese Hohen Kronen oft aus Metall gefertigt und einer Holzstatue aufgesetzt.

Viele Gewänder, z.B. schmales Tuch um die Brust, meist von der linken Schulter zur Mitte der rechten Körperseite (joohaku); wehende Schals über den Armen (tenne), langes Hüfttuch bzw. Wickelrock bis an die Fußknöchel (mo, kun), das aber nie über den Sockel hängt. Manchmal wird das Gewand über den Knien noch einmal mit einer Schleife zusammengebunden.

Drei Falten am Hals (sandoo). Über die Schultern herabhängende Haare (suihatsu). Immer milder Gesichtsausdruck; die einzige Ausnahme bildet die Pferdeköpfige Kannon, die einen furchterregenden Gesichtsausdruck zeigt.

Ein Bosatsu hält meist Gegenstände in den Händen (jimotsu), als Ausdruck dafür, daß er mit den verschiedensten Mitteln die Menschheit retten will, z.B. Lotusblüte, Wassergefäß mit Lebenswasser oder wunscherfüllendes Juwel.
Bosatsu-Statuen stehen im allgemeinen auf einem Lotussockel.
Im Unterschied zu Nyorai-Statuen können Bosatsu auch mehrere Köpfe und mehrere Gliedmaßen haben, um ihre vielseitigen Bestrebungen zur Rettung der Menschen zum Ausdruck zu bringen.

. Buddhastatuen ... Who is Who .
Ein Wegweiser zur Ikonografie
von japanischen Buddhastatuen
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Kozuke Province

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The Buddhist Sculptures of Kozuke Province

source : ajw.asahi.com/article

Editor's Note:
The following articles are translations of reviews carried by the latest issue( No. 1393) of Kokka, a prestigious art magazine published in Japan. The publication, which specializes in old Japanese and Oriental art, was founded in 1889 by Tenshin Okakura, a well-known Japanese art critic and philosopher (1862-1913), among others. It is held in high esteem by researchers and experts aboard.

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The Buddhist Sculptures of Kozuke Province

By HIROSHI OKABE

After Buddhism was first brought to Japan around the middle of the 6th century, it soon spread from the capital cities to the regional areas. Amidst this, the beginnings of Buddhist culture appeared in Kozuke province （centering on present-day Gunma Prefecture） during the latter half of the 7th century. Fragments of molded figurines excavated at Sannohai-ji, built in the 4th quarter of the 7th century and thought to be the ruins of Hoko-ji, are said to be scenes of the Jataka Tales that appeared on the first story of a stupa.

During the Nara period, according to a document known as the Kozuke no kuni kotai jitsurokucho, a gold colored seated figure of Shaka （S: Sakyamuni） with a figure height of 250 cm, and standing attendant figures of Monju （S: Manjusri） and Fugen （S: Samantabhadra）, with figure heights of 300 cm, plus Shitenno figures, were enshrined in the Kondo of Kozuke Kokubun-ji, established around the middle of the 8th century.

The earliest extant wooden Buddhist sculptures handed down in the Kozuke region date from the late Heian period onwards. The ichiboku-zukuri, or solid single block construction, figures dating from the 11th century consist of the
Standing Fudo Myoo at Soji-ji,
the Seated Fudo Myoo of Tokujo-ji,
the Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon of Onabuchi Kannondo, the Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon of Chokoku-ji, and the Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon of Nichirin-ji. In the next century, both single block construction and yosegi-zukuri, or joined hollow block construction, works appear. Typical examples from this period can be seen in the Jizo Bosatsu with Pendant Leg （S: Ksitigarbha） of Kongo-ji and the Standing Amida Nyorai figures of Choraku-ji and Iwamatsu Shoren-ji.

From the Kamakura period, early 13th century figures include the Sho-Kannon （S: Aryavalokitesvara） of Shobo-ji and the Amida Triad of Ko'on-ji. These works all continue the Fujiwara style of yosegi-zukuri, using hollow joined blocks of hinoki wood. By around the middle of the 13th century, Unkei-style images appear, such as the Standing Amida Nyorai of Fugen-ji and Kaikei-style images such as the Standing Amida Nyorai of Sozen-ji. From the latter half of the 13th century to the beginning of the 14th century, figures made in the front-back split yosegi-zukuri method appeared, such as the Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon of Sankoin, the hidden statue Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon of Chokoku-ji, the Standing Bato Kannon （S: Hayagriva Avalokitesvara） of Namezawa Kannondo, and the Yakushi Nyorai （S: Bhaisajya） of Otsubayakushido. On the other hand, from the 12th century onwards, when it seemed that lacquered and gilded yosegi-zukuri images completely dominated wooden images, there appears to be a concurrent and continuous production of single block construction images, such as the Shinto images at Mangyo-ji and Nitta Yoshisada at Soji-ji. Around the middle of the 13th century, various different sculptural methods began to develop in the area, such as the stone image Standing Fudo at Miyata, the bronze Senkoji-style Standing Amida Triads at Kiryu's Shoren-ji and other temples, the iron figure of a Seated Amida Nyorai at Zensho-ji, and the molded clay figure of the seated figure of Eicho Zenji at Choraku-ji. Of further note are the priest portrait sculptures at Nitta-no-sho Choraku-ji and the portrait of Shoshin Shonin at Hofuku-ji.

The two guardian figures at Myoo-in exhibit the baroque style of the Northern and Southern Courts period, while it is interesting to note that there is a fascinating glimpse of powerful, regional-style sculpture in the Muromachi period's production of the ever present technically proficient yosegi-zukuri which turned away from true sculpting.

During the Edo period, the mid-17th century Seated Amida Nyorai of Choraku-ji combines classical style with a pre-modern sense of added decorativeness. The majority of the works created during this period were small in scale, and they reflect the efficient creation of standardized forms. However, the great increase in the number of Buddhist images created conveys a sense of the deepening connection between people and Buddhist images.

The author is an art Historian(Japanese Art), Research Scholar of Buddhist Art Research Institute, Inc.

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Standing Fudo Myoo（S: Acalanatha)

Wood with white undercoating, polychrome and carved eyeballs
Fig.H. 99.5 cm
Soji-ji, Ota City

By TAKEO OKU
This image is noteworthy as one of the few standing images of Fudo, dating prior to Jocho. The honpa style of alternating high and low areas of drapery folds shows extremely shallow carving of the drapery folds. The thin chest, and face with slightly smaller than usual eyebrow and eye forms are all characteristic of images created in the first half of the 11th century.

Two features, namely the face turned to the right and the appearance of raised knees with skirt hems symmetrically arranged to the right and left of center, are all shared with two major examples of early period, pre-Jocho standing images of Fudo at Myoho-in and Taisan-ji. These two characteristics accord with the Standing Fudo depicted in the "Chuo-zu" of the Ninnokyo gohoshoson-zu said to be in the hand of Kukai. Thus it can be thought that the sculptural images of standing Fudo figures were created under the influence of this Chuho-zu image.

This figure is shown in walking pose with one foot raised. This pose is said to represent the function of this deity as a guide to the afterlife, and is modeled after such images as the Amida Nyorai in Cave 16 at the Anyue-Yuanjue Caves in Sichuan province, China. Prayers to Fudo were one element of Heian period Buddhist funerary rituals, and thus it is possible that this type of Fudo image was created for the role of guide for the deceased to the Pure Land.

The author is an art historian(Japanese art), Inspector at the Agency for Cultural Affairs

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Jizo Bosatsu （S: Ksitigarbha） with One Leg Pendant
Wood with lacquer, gilding and carved eyeballs
Kongo-ji, Ota City

Seated Amida Nyorai （S: Amitabha）
Iron
Zensho-ji, Maebashi City

Standing Amida （S: Amitabha） Triad
Gilt bronze
Shoren-ji, Kiryu City

Standing Eleven Headed Kannon （S: Ekadasa-mukha）
Wood with lacquer, gilding and crystal eyeballs
Sanko-in, Numata City

Figure Seated in a Chair, Traditionally Said to be
Nitta Yoshisada
Wood with traces of polychrome and crystal eyeballs
Soji-ji, Ota City

Seated Figure of Gessen Shinkai
Wood with original faded polychrome and later wodden eyeballs
Choraku-ji, Ota City

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Nitta Yoshisada
(1301 – August 17, 1338)
was the head of the Nitta family in the early fourteenth century, and supported the Southern Court of Emperor Go-Daigo in the Nanboku-chō period, capturing Kamakura from the Hōjō clan in 1333.

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Munakata Shiko

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Munakata Shiko 棟方志功

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Shikō Munakata 棟方志功
(September 5, 1903 – September 13, 1975)
a woodblock printmaker active in Shōwa period Japan. He is associated with the sosaku hanga movement and the mingei (folk art) movement. Munakata was awarded the "Prize of Excellence" at the Second International Print Exhibition in Lugano, Switzerland in 1952. He was awarded the Order of Culture, the highest honor in the arts by the Japanese government in 1970.

Munakata was born in Aomori city, Aomori prefecture in northern Honshū as the third of 15 children to a local blacksmith. Due to the impoverished circumstances of his family, he had only an elementary school education; however, he exhibited a passion for art from early childhood. In third grade, he began illustrating kites for his classmates.

Munakata's early career was not without obstacles. Unable to sell his paintings, he was forced to repair shoes and sell natto part time to survive. He was rejected by the Bunten (The Japan Art Academy Exhibition) four times, until one of his paintings was finally accepted in 1928. However, by this date, his attention had shifted away from oil painting to the traditional Japanese art of woodblock printing.

Quotations of Shiko Munakata

"Like the vastness of space, like a universe unlimited, untold, unattainable, and inscrutable- that is the woodcut."

"The nature of the woodcut is such, that even a mistake in its carving will not prevent it from its true materialization."

"The concern that it be ugly is characteristic of human thoughts and not of the woodcut itself."

"It is inherent in the woodcut that it can never be ugly."

"The woodcut, unconcerned with good and evil, with ideas, with differences, tells us that it consists of truth alone,"

"It is precisely the beauty of this which will further enlarge the limitlessness of the world of beauty."

(from Shiko Munakata, Munakata:
the “Way” of the Woodcut, Brooklyn, Pratt Adlib Press, 1961).

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へたくそだからいい - unskillful is just right

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His eyesight was very bad and he had to lean heavily over his artwork to see what he was doing.

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Daruma Whiskey Bottle

. Suntory Old サントリーオールド Daruma .

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南無不動明王 Namu Fudo Myo-O
Thinking of the victims of the catastrophy on March 11.
source :　松謡堂文庫

. Japan after the BIG earthquake March 11, 2011　.

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. Fellow Pilgrims .

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Kaneda Sekijo

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Kaneda Sekijo 　金田石城　
Kaneda Sekijoo, Kaneda Sekijyo 書道家

born 1941
Iwaki, Fukushima

source : www.anyouji.or.jp/Sekijyo.html

Folding screen at Temple Anyoo-Ji 安養寺 Anyo-In

『墨の魔術師』『書道界の鬼才』

Homepage of the Artist
source : www.sekijyokaneda.com

金田石城（かねだせきじょう、1941年 - ）
は、福島県いわき市出身の書道家。埼玉県さいたま市在住。

全日本書道芸術院主宰。『墨の魔術師』『書道界の鬼才』の異名を得る前衛的な書道家として知られる。テレビドラマ、映画等の題字なども多く手がける。書行50年超。

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高崎で書道家・金田石城さんの作品展
December 11, 2011

高崎名物の縁起だるまを描いたびょうぶを同小学校、高崎市に寄贈する。

Suzunari no Daruma 鈴なりのだるま Takasaki Daruma
This folding screen will be given as offering to a local school in Takasaki.

. byoobu 屏風 portable　screens, byoobu 屏風 .
with Daruma

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THE WORLD OF SEKIJO KANEDA’S CREATION

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Seated Buddha Statues

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Statues with seated Buddhas (zazoo　座像)

Hanka fumisage position 半跏踏下坐

半跏踏み下げ

不動明王のフィギュア Modern Fudo Myo-O Figure

On this link there is also a green Fudo in this position, which is different from the usual seated positions of Fudo Myo-O, especially different from the famous seated statue at the temple Toji (東寺) in Kyoto and quite unusual for a statue of Fudo Myo-O.
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This is maybe the most famous statue in this position.
Miroku is silently and quietly pondering how to save the world and all creatures on it, now and in the future.

source : 仏像マニアックス

Chuuguuji 中宮寺－菩薩半跏像 Miroku Bosatsu 弥勒菩薩
Temple Chugu-Ji in Nara

. Miroku Bosatsu 弥勒菩薩 Maitreya . 　

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Statues with seated Buddhas (zazoo　座像)　

Seated statues usually present a great quietude and serenity. The Nyorai are all seated in deep meditaion.
Crossed legs in the full louts position (kekka fuza　結跏趺坐) or
half-lotus position (hanka fuza　半跏趺坐).

source :　uchiko yoga

gooma za 降魔坐 - the left leg is uppermost
kichijoo za 吉祥坐 - the right leg is uppermost

Half-crossed legs (rinnooza 輪王坐 )
The right knee is raised.

Example: Wish-fulfilling Kannon.

Seated on a throne with both legs (izoo　倚像, iza 倚坐) or
one leg hanging down (hanka fumisage　半跏踏下坐, hanka iza 半跏倚坐).
This form is most popular with statues of Ten deities and priests.

zenka iza 善跏倚坐 both legs down

Somethimes both legs are down and crossed at the ankle
(kookyakuzoo　交脚像).
This version is typical for China and seldom seen in Japan.

Example: Miroku Bosatsu　弥勒菩薩

A special placement is the "Kannon placing her soles together"
(ashizuri Kannon 足摺観音）
like both hands in prayer.

source :　city.kanuma.tochigi.jp

Example: From Kanuma Town in Tochigi 鹿沼市. Important cultural property.
The wooden statue is about 63 cm high.

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Sitzende Figuren (zazoo　座像)　

Sitzende Figuren drücken im allgemeinen eine große Ruhe aus.
Meist zeigen sie einen Nyorai in tiefer Meditation. Gekreuzte Beine im vollen (kekka fuza　結跏趺坐) oder halben (hanka fuza　半跏趺坐) Lotussitz.

"Halbverschränkungssitz": Sitzend mit dem rechten Knie nach oben aufgestellt (rinnooza 輪王坐 ) wie die Wunscherfüllende Kannon.

Auf einem Podest sitzend mit beiden (izoo　倚像) oder
einem Bein nach unten (hanka fumisage　半跏踏下坐).
Diese Formen finden sich häufig bei Ten- und Priesterfiguren.

Manchmal sind die Beine nach unten hängend überkreuzt (kookyakuzoo　交脚像); diese Version ist typisch fuer China und findet sich kaum in Japan.

Eine besondere Figur ist die "Fußreibende Kannon" (ashizuri Kannon 足摺観音）:
Beide Fußsohlen sind aneinandergelegt, wie die Hände im Gebet.

. Buddhastatuen ... Who is Who .
Kurze historische Übersicht
und
Allgemeines über Statuen
Gabi Greve　

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Nai no Kami Earthquake

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Nai no kami 地震神
The Japanese god of earthquakes.

nai no kami ないのかみ / なゐの神【地震神】
deity of earthquakes

and what we need most, an earthquake talisman
地震御守

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by Mori Mizue
A kami worshiped following disastrous earthquakes.
The earliest historical record of an earthquake in Japan appears in a poem included in Nihongi's account of Emperor Buretsu, but the first record of an earthquake kami and its worship comes from Nihongi's records of the reign of Empress Suiko.

In summer of the seventh year of her reign (599 C.E.), a temblor struck the capital regions, and an order was issued to offer worship to the kami of earthquakes, although no title is given to any specific kami to be worshiped.

In later periods, the transmission of legends regarding the "pivot stone" (kanameishi) at the shrine Kashima Jingū led to the belief that the shrine's central deity Takemikazuchi was a protector against earthquakes, and identifications were also made with kami of the "landlord deity" (jinushigami) type.

The mythologies transmitted by Kojiki and Nihongi, however, provide no descriptions of kami with clear attributes as protective tutelaries against earthquakes, and the original deity may have been related to Chinese Onmyōdō (Yin-Yang) beliefs.

Some have suggested that Nai Jinja in Nabari of Iga Province (a shikinaisha or shrine listed in the Engishiki) was dedicated to this kami.
source : Kokugakuin University, 2005

In the Manyo-Shu 万葉集 poetry collection there is a verse reading

ゆるげどもよもや抜けじの要石
鹿島の神のあらん限りは

The pivot stone may wobble
but it will not become unstuck
as long as the God of Kashima Shrine is with us!

In the Edo period people believed that if you write this poem on a piece of paper, read it out loud three times and then stick the paper to your door, the house will be protected from earthquake damage.

(Some sources say this poem is not from the Manyo-Shu.)

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jishin mushi 地震虫 (じしんむし) earthquake bug

This mythical animal is mentioned in the Nihon Shoki volume about Suiko Tenno 推古天皇紀.
In the year 599 there was a huge earthquake in the region of Nara, so the Tenno ordered the "God of Earthquakes" Nai no Kami「地震神」（なゐのかみ） to be venerated in the country.
The name refers to the attribute of the deity, like the "god of the fields 野の神", or the "god of the sea 海の神".

This deity was later venerated at the shrine Kashima Jingu.

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Takemikazuchi no mikoto (武甕槌大神)

Tekemikazuchi standing on a catfish

the "rough spirit" (aramitama) of Amaterasu ōmikami

He holds down the God of the Earthquake, here in the form of a huge catfish, and sits on the famous "key stone" "kaname ishi 要石".

A giant catfish (namazu) lived in mud beneath the earth. The catfish liked to play pranks and could only be restrained by Kashima, a deity who protected the Japanese people from earthquakes. So long as Kashima kept a mighty rock with magical powers over the catfish, the earth was still. But when he relaxed his guard, the catfish thrashed about, causing earthquakes.

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Takemikazuchi
by Kadoya Atsushi
A kami produced from the blood adhering to the sword when Izanagi killed the fire kami Kagutsuchi. Together with Amanotorifune (Kojiki) or Futsunushi no kami (Nihongi), Takemikazuchi descended to the land of Izumo and entreated Ōkuninushi to transfer the land (kuniyuzuri) to the heavenly kami.

Kojiki adds that he engaged in a test of strength with Takeminakata, the child of Ōkuninushi, who had opposed the heavenly forces. Subduing Takeminaka, he drove him away to Suwa in the province of Shinano (present-day Nagano).

On the occasion of Emperor Jinmu's eastern campaign, Takemikazuchi deferred from descending to aid Jinmu, but in his place sent his sword Futsunomitama, in this way aiding Jinmu's forces in their successful pacification of the land. Takemikazuchi is worshiped at Kashima, Kasuga and other shrines.
source : Kokugakuin University, 2005

Kashima Shinko 鹿島信仰
The Faith related to Kashima
. Kashima Shrine 鹿島神宮 Kashima Jingu . 　

Kashima Torii 鹿島鳥居 Kashima Shrine Gate

It broke down during
the super earthquake on March 11, 2011.

鹿島神宮の鳥居が倒壊している
鹿島神宮崩壊してる
鹿島港の北埠頭と南埠頭で浸水が発生した。

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Nai jinja 名居神社（ないじんじゃ）shrine Nai Jinja

In the town Nabari 名張市下比奈知宮ノ谷 in Iga, Mie prefecture.
The pronounciation may have changed from nafuri to nahori to nabari to nai.

The deity Ooanamuchi no Mikoto 大己貴命おおあなむち‐の‐みことis venerated.
He used to be a Kunitsu Daimyojin 国津大明神 (the god of the earthly realm).

also venerated the deities :

Sukunahiko no mikoto 少彦名命(ｽｸﾅﾋｺﾅﾉﾐｺﾄ)
Amenokoyane no mikoto天児屋根命(ｱﾒﾉｺﾔﾈﾉﾐｺﾄ)
Kotoshironushi no mikoto事代主命(ｺﾄｼﾛﾇｼﾉﾐｺﾄ)
Ichikishima hime no mikoto 市杵嶋姫命(ｲﾁｷｼﾏﾋﾒﾉﾐｺﾄ)
Hiruko no mikoto 蛭子命(ﾋﾙｺﾉﾐｺﾄ)

This is a shrine dedicated to the deity of earthquakes,
jishin no kami 地震の神.

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god of earthquakes -
what does it take
to keep you quiet ?

Thank you, Origa san, for your haiga.
Let us hope Nai no Kami accepts this offering.

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The Super Earthquake March 11, 2011
東北地方太平洋沖地震
magnitude 9:0
with a huge tsunami of more than 10 meters
. Tohoku region Pacific Ocean offshore earthquake . 　

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. WKD : Earthquake (jishin 地震) 　

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Fudo Small Shrine

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Fudo Myoo
Bronze Buddha In Wood Shrine

The figure inside the wooden Zushi Altar depicts a fierce looking Fudo Myo-o flanked by two deities that measures 3.25” tall. The writing on the back of the piece reads “Narita, Prayer for good luck and good fortune” and it means Narita Shinsho-Ji Temple in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Ever since founded by Priest Kanjo in 940, the temple has been the center of worship as the head temple of Chizan Branch of Shingon Sect also known as ' Fudo of Narita.' The principal worship image of this temple is the Fudo Myo-o statue carved by Kukai, the founder of the Shingon Sect.

Antique Buddha statues in our collection have served as objects of contemplation, meditation and worship in temples and home shrines over several centuries in many parts of the world. A great range of imagery proliferated as Buddhism infused the spiritual consciousness of the East.
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Acala. from Tibet

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. Narita Fudo ... 成田不動尊　
Temple Shinsho-Ji (Shinshooji) 新勝寺

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Men Mask

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Mask of Fudo Myo-O　お面不動明王

source : asakusa-edoya

This mask is made from washi paper by the artist Igarashi Kenji 五十嵐健二, maker of Kasukabe Dolls.
After forming the mask, he painted it with watercolors.

. Dolls from Kasugabe (Kasukabe hariko)
　春日部張子　

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source : www.shinise.ne.jp

Made by Fujiware Fuseki
藤原孚石（ふじわらふせき）
born Showa 17

This mask is made for the Nenbutsu Kyogen performance at Temple Mibudera. It has the power to ward off evil.
It is in the style of masks of Saga 嵯峨面.

. Mibu Nenbutsu 壬生念仏
Invoction of Amida at Mibu Temple 　

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source : www.ryu-sho.co.jp

Made from plain wood of the kusunoki, the camphor tree.
Size : 22 x 16,5

from Ryu Sho, Buddhist Sculptures
〒700-0945 岡山県岡山市南区新保1155-11

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source : japanwoodcarving.com

SUKEMASA Gallery.

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source : shisei.blog.eonet.jp

From an exhibition at Nara
万美夢面舘（奈良市餅飯殿センター街）

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source : origamist.blog

Making faces with Origami
面・顔の折り紙
Kawai Toshiaki (1932 - )
Craftsman for Origami, published many books

. Introducing 河合豊彰 Kawai Toshiaki .
and his Daruma Faces　

. Origami and Daruma san 　

autumn deepens -
my dreams float around
the color RED

. Gabi, Inspired by the Origami

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. Noh Mask 能面達磨 and Daruma 　

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Mask for Shinto kagura dance

Daruma as a follower or clown maks
従者・道化の小だるまの面

large

source : Edo Satokagura

Shinto Kagura is distinct from the court kagura and instead features older ritual styles similar to that performed at Shinto shrines. This style of music involves the preparation of a shinza or place of worship to which the gods are invited. A priestess or miko is central to the ritual which is generally performed on winter evenings.

. Satokagura 里神楽

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Daruma Mask, a gift from Ishino san.
Kasukabe paper craft

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. Men, omote 面 masks of Japan .

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Takita Sakae

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Takita Sakae 滝田栄

たきたさかえ Born 1950

滝田栄、仏像を彫る
ISBN： 9784620318172

He is one of my favorite actors in Japan.
I remember way back in 1983 when he played Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 in the annual NHK drama.
. . . CLICK here for Photos !

He was in India, practising meditation for two years, when the war of Irak started in 2003, and wanted to do something to stop the war.
He thought of Fudo Myo-O and started carving this one to show his feeling against the war.

He carved his first statue of Kannon when his mother died.
The statue has the gentle face of his mother.

Later when his father died, he carved a much bigger Kannon statue.

When his brother died young, only 55 years of age, Takita carved his first statue of Fudo Myo-O. He says it looks just like his beloved brother.

Now

In his studio in Nagano

He lives alone in the woods, his family comes visiting regularly.
八ヶ岳にある滝田の仏像彫刻の工房

His official website

http://www.takitasakae.jp/

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I recently saw him in a documentary about Enku, the famous carver.

Enku 円空 Master Carver

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夏の月滝田栄の林立す
natsu no tsuki Takita Sakae no hayashi tatsu

summer moon . . .
I stand in the forest
of Takita Sakae

Hitotsu Maguro 一鮪
http://www.koshinfu.com/007.html

. Tree and Forest in Haiku 　

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Dondoyaki Dondo

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Dondo yaki and Fudo Myo-O

どんとのほむら見てご覧　
ゆらゆらゆれる不動明王に手を合わせ

Look at the flames of the Dondo fire !
Fudo Myo-O is quivering in the flames !
Let us fold our hands in prayer !

source : harhar

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道祖神　Doosojin, the Wayside Gods
Festivals in their honour are the fire festivities on the old lunar New Year,
Dondoyaki　どんど焼、sagichoo 左義長, saitoyaki 賽燈燒,　紫灯、寒灯. During these fire festivals around the 14 and 15 of January, the New Year decorations are burned, for example the ritual ropes, Shimenawa.

. Dosojin, the Wayside Gods

. dondon yaki どんどん焼き（どんどんやき　
at the New Year

sagichoo 三毬杖（さぎちょう）左義長　Sagichoo ritual　
tondo とんど、dondo どんど
dondon yaki どんどん焼き（どんどんやき）Dondon fire
dondo shoogatsu どんど正月（どんどしょうがつ) dondo New Year

dondo ba どんど場（どんどば）place for the dondo fire
saito yaki さいと焼き（さいとやき）

hut for the small new year, shougatsu goya 正月小屋（しょうがつごや）
..... dondon goya どんどん小屋（どんどんごや）
snow hut yukigoya 雪小屋（ゆきごや）
saitogoya さいと小屋（さいとごや）、

burning the decorations, kazaritaki 飾り焚（かざりたき）
... kazari age 飾りあげ（かざりあげ）
kazari hayashi 飾りはやし（かざりはやし）music during the fire ceremony

burning the first calligraphy of the year, kissho age 吉書揚（きっしょあげ）
wakabi 若火（わかび）"young fire"

miso dondon みそどんど
firecrackers, bakuchiku 爆竹（ばくちく）

kazari taku 飾焚く（かざりたく）burning the decorations

ningyoo kuyoo 人形供養 memorial ceremony for used dolls

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山添やはやしてもなきどんどやき
yamazoi ya hayashite mo naki dondo yaki

foot of the mountain--
without a cheer
my New Year's bonfire

Kobayashi Issa
Tr. David Lanoue

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Haiku about Fudo

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Haiku about Fudo Myo-O

source : HAIKUreikuDB
Tr. Gabi Greve

冬の滝不動明王ひとり立つ
fuyu no taki Fudo Myoo-Oo hitori tatsu

waterfall in winter -
there stands just one statue
of Fudo Myo-O

Katoo Chiyoko 加藤知世子花寂び
Foto : nhk.or.jp/shinshu-blog/200/

足冷えて不動明王の火焔恋ふ
ashi hiete Fudo Myoo-Oo no kaen kou

my feet are cold -
I long for the flames
of Fudo Myo-O

Fukunaga Kooji 福永耕二

不動明王の剣の切っ先冴返る
片山紀子

不動明王夏空かすめゆくものなし
中田剛珠樹

不動明王女(をみな)われゐて秋まひる
『石橋秀野句文集』

不動明王女われゐて秋まひる
石橋秀野

不動明王鶏頭に火をもらい
森村文子

寒の水不動明王浴び給ふ
小川千代
清水かければ石室不動目を瞠く
(京都岩船寺不動明王) 石原八束『断腸花』

火柱や不動明王立ちあがる
和田悟朗法隆寺伝承

煤けても不動明王火恋し
高澤良一宿好

熱不動明王に柿冷えにけり
赤松[ケイ]子

蜘蛛の囲に不動明王囮われし
西川明美

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Taki Fudoo 瀧不動 Fudo Waterfall
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Tatoo teeshirt

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Tatoo teeshirt

This is a tatoo shirt used for festivals when you want to make an impression.

source : kameya shop

Many different types of tatoo shirts
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Tatoo with Daruma and Fudo Myo-O

. Tattoo, irezumi 刺青 .

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Kannon for your Eyes

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Kannon for your Eyes

Indian-style one-thousand armed Kannon, with very slender eyes

More photos of the statues in the temple precincts
source :small-life.com

Temple Minami Hokkeji (Tsubosakadera)
Nr. 6 of the Saikoku Kannon Pilgrimage
Nara
壷阪寺（南法華寺)
西国三十三ヶ所観音霊場の第六番札所

The temple was founded in 701 by priest Benki of Genkoji Temple. Parts of it have been made from white stone imported from India.

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According to the chronicle of Minamihokkeji Temple possessed by Tsubosakadera Temple, the holy priest Benki felt the presence of the Kanzeonbosatsu (the Goddesss of Mercy) in his prized quartz pot while he was attracted by this sacred mountain and practiced asceticism. He enshrined this pot on top of the slope and help religious service for it, engraved the image of Kanzeonbosatsu and enshrined it as Tsubosaka Kannon.

This is the etymology of Tsubosaka (slope of pot) .Thereafter when the emperor Gensho was on the throne, the temple became an imperial family temple and was given the name of "Minamihokkeji Temple".

The holy priest Benki thereafter returned to secular life, became a man of culture and was named venerable Sohshu Kasuga (secretary general of Kasuga) and appointed the supervisor of clerical staff of Kasuga.The same description is found also in the record of March 19 in the first year of Taiho in Vol.2 of "Shoku Nihongi".

Minamihokkeji Temple is the name of a group of temples, and according to an old head priest of the Temple, it was at the zenith of its prosperity in Heian era when a grand cathedral of total 36 halls and 60 houses including the main buildings, five brand halls and a baptismal hall were constructed. The brand appearance of Tsubosakadera Temple was described with admiration in the storybook of Sei Shonagon abreast of Koya Temple.

However, most of the halls and houses of priests perished due to disastrous fire attacks several times, and at present there remain only a part of the buildings such as halls of worship, three-storied pagoda (they are both registered important cultural assets of Japan at present) and octagonal hall which were reconstructed in Muromachi Era. They are now standing beautifully in harmony with quiet appearance of the mountainsides.

Tsubosakadera Temple is a temple which many people have worshiped as sacred temple since ancient times. In the description of December 23 (Hinoetatsu) of the 14th year of Showa Era (A.D.885) of the Japanese chronicle "Shoku Nihongi", the Temple was ranked to one of the official temples and in the description of March 5 of the 8th year of Teikan (A.D.859) of"Sandai Jitsuroku (the authentic history of three dynasties)", it was ordered to hold "Tendokue (Ceremony to reading of Buddhist sutra skippingly) ". Thus, the Temple has been known since old times as a sacred temple in the mountain.

This Temple is the sixth of 33 scared place of Kannon in the West of Japan and the principal image Juichmen Kanzeon Bosatsu (Eleven-faced Goddess of Mercy) (wood-carved sitting image) enshrined in the Temple has been extensively worshipped as the goddess marvelously responsive to eye diseases. Emperors Gensho, Ichijo and Kanmu and man other famous historical persons prayed for the recovery from their eye diseases. In fact, many miracles of marvelous efficacy were recorded in "Kanreiroku　(the Collection of Miracles of Inspiration)" (written in Heian Era).

source : 　www.tsubosaka1300.or.jp

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... ... ... Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩

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Tobi Fudo

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Tobi Fudo ... 飛不動尊 ... Flying Fudo

Temple Shobo-In 正宝院

source : Temple Shobo-In

The temple was founded in 1530 by St.Shozan 正山上人, a Buddhist priest of the Tendai sect. St.Shozan pilgrimaged around the country after completion of his hard ascetic practices in the holy Mt.Ohmine in Nara. When he visited this place of Ryusen and lodged with the inhabitants, he dreamed of a dragon flying high up into the air in a streak of light.

The dream of a dragon was interpreted as the symbol of divine protection by Fudo (one of Gods in Buddhism). Then, he determined to sculpture an image of Fudo to pray for the health and longevity of inhabitants and for the safety of his own pilgrimage. And he founded Shoboin temple to enshrine the image of Fudo.

. . . FLYING GOD －
. . . . The Legend of Tobi-Fudo

Shortly after the foundation of the temple, the chief priest took the image of Fudo with him to the holy Mt.Ohmine for his ascetic exercises there. One night, however, Fudo flew back alone all the way of 300 miles to Edo(old Tokyo) to answer the local people who were praying to the duplicated image during absence of Fudo.
Hence the Fudo came to be called as Tobi (Flying)-Fudo, and highly reputed as the god flying straightly to the prayers to answer. The temple name appears as Tobi-Fudo in many old maps and history books issued in Edo period(1603-1868) instead of it’s formal name Shoboin.

This suggests that Tobi-Fudo has been popularly known and worshiped from old times.In recent years, in connection of this legend with the development of air transportation, an increasing number of people have come to visit the temple to pray for their safe flights and journeys.

Fudo’s protective amulets called “Hiko-Mamori”飛行守り (hikoo mamori) for safe flights and journeys are now available at the temple.

for travel by ship or aeroplane
source : 　tobifudo HP

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Kookuu anzen 航空安全お守り safe flight amulets
... higyoo (hikoo) anzen 飛行安全お守り
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The story behind this temple is that after it had been founded in 1530, its chief priest travelled from Edo to the distant Mt. Omine in Nara for religious training, and he took the temple’s honzon (it’s central figure of Fudo Myo-o) with him. In the meantime, more and more people gathered at the temple back in Edo to pray to Fudo Myo-o. To answer all the prayers of his followers, Fudo Myo-o flew all the way back from Mt. Omine, and the honzon became known as ‘Tobi-Fudo’ (Flying Fudo), the god who would fly directly to the aid of all living things.

ゴルフ安全護 golf amulet

Taking up the theme of ‘flying,’ the shrine offers the ‘Golf-mamori’ charm, which will help your golf ball fly further, for 2,000 yen. We haven’t been able to confirm whether Japan’s favourite young golfer Ryo Ishikawa has one, but if you’re looking to improve your golf score, it’s definitely the charm for you.
source : www.timeout.jp

. Kootsuu anzen 交通安全 traffic safety .
safety on the road

. Toys and Talismans from Japan .　

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The temple is also one of the 36 on the
BANDO : Pilgrimages to 36 Fudo Temples

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二の酉をはずれて点り飛不動
ni no tori o hazurete tsukeri Tobi Fudo

after the second festival day
the temple is still lit by lanterns -
Tobi Fudo

Matsuda Hiromu 松田ひろむ

kigo for early winter:
Festivals and markets on the "Days of the Rooster"
. ni no tori 二の酉（にのとり）market on the second day of the rooster .

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Nine Stars Crest

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Nine Stars Crest ... 九曜紋 ... Kuyoo Mon

Kuyoo Hoshimon 九曜星紋, Kuyoo no mon, 九曜の紋

Nine planets, nine deities representing the stars
nine constellations (shukuyoo 宿曜)

They are also called kushitsu 九執 .
sun, moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn,
Rago 羅喉 (Sk: Rahu), and Keito 計都 (Sk: Ketu)

This is a form of mandala interpreted by stars and also related to the belief in Myoken Bosatsu.

Myooken Bosatsu 妙見菩薩 and the Star Shrines of Japan.
The Chiba Clan and this Crest.

If Myoken is included, there are ten stars 十曜星.

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The Nine Deities

© PHOTO : tobifudo

Here is the Japanese of these constellations:

1 Center or Dainichi Nyorai
ragoosei 羅喉星（らごうせい、大日如来）（一白水星）

2 Saturday, Kannon with 1000 arms,
doyoosei 土曜星（どようせい、千手観音）（二黒土星）

3 Wednesday, Seishi Bosatsu
suiyoosei 水曜星（すいようせい、勢至菩薩）（三碧木星

4 Friday, Kokuuzoo Bosatsu
kinyoosei 金曜星（きんようせい、虚空蔵菩薩）（四緑木星）

5 Sunday, Fudo Myo-O
nichiyoosei 日曜星（にちようせい、不動明王）
（五黄土星）

6 Tuesday, Hachiman Daibosatsu
kayoosei 火曜星（かようせい、八幡大菩薩）　（六白金星）

7 Jizo Bosatsu
keitosei 計都星（けいとせい、地蔵菩薩）（七赤金星）

8 Monday, Fugen Bosatsu
getsuyoosei 月曜星（げつようせい、普賢菩薩）（八白土星）

9 Thursday, Monju Bosatsu
mokuyoosei 木曜星（もくようせい、文殊菩薩）（九紫火星）

The center represents the earth, the heaven above the water.

Variations of the Crest with a Moon

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Nichiyosei Sunday Star 日曜星
Number 5 of the Nine Stars.

Its incarnation is Fudo Myo-O .

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At the temple Myoken Rinji 明星輪寺
Gifu.
This temple is closely related to the legends about Masakado.

© PHOTO :　dhistory.hp

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Masakaso was a grest believer in the star constellations and brought the belief of Myoken and the nine constellations to many parts of Japan.

Taira no Masakado (平将門)
(?–March 25, 940)
was a member of the Kammu Taira clan of Japan. He was the son of Taira no Yoshimochi, Chinjufu Shogun. His childhood name was Sōma Kojirō. Taira no Masakado was a powerful landowner in the Kantō region. He is regarded as the first bushi because he was the first to lead a self-governing party.

In 939, during the Heian period of Japanese history, he rebelled by attacking the outpost of the central government in Hitachi Province, capturing the governor. In December of that year he conquered Shimotsuke and Kōzuke Provinces, and claimed the title of Shinnō (New Emperor). Masakado killed his uncle Kunika who was part Taira. The central government in Kyoto responded by putting a bounty on his head, and fifty-nine days later his cousin Sadamori, whose father Masakado had attacked and killed, and Fujiwara no Hidesato, killed him at the Battle of Kojima (Shimōsa Province) in 940 and took his head to the capital.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

I have more about Taira no Masakado HERE:
The famous head mound of Masakado in Tokyo

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28 Deities in Shingon and Tendai Mandalas
Star Mandala (Hoshi Mandara 星曼荼羅)
Twenty-Eight Constellations
Mark Schumacher

Japanese Resources
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Variations of the Family Crest

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kuyou
守谷のふるさとかるた... Moriya Furusato Karuta
and the nine stars crest of Taira no Masakado

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Stone Carvings

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Stone Carving from Temple
Miroku-Ji 弥勒寺

Nagasaki prefecture, 長崎県大村市弥勒寺町

Fudo Myo-O Hi 不動明王碑

This is an old stone memorial, which people call "Fudo Myo-O", but the carving from the middle of the Kamakura period is almost lost.
The stone is andesite 安山岩 and about 168 cm high and 76 cm at its widest place. On the front is the carved figure of a seated Fudo.

The figure below has been produced by fukusige, using his computer graphics facilities.

source : fukusige

fukusige : 弥勒寺跡

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From a Card Game introducing Moriya Town :
守谷のふるさとかるた.. Moriya Furusato Karuta

Most of these cards introduce a haiku or senryu and a famous place of the town, including the relationship to the famous warlord Taira no Masakado.

sono mukashi hito sawagasete obake-ishi

long long ago
it had the people bewildered ...
a haunted stone

One day in July 1975, children playing in the area found a "HUMAN FACE" had appeared on a stone memorial of a Narita Fudo Myo-O stone memorial. It was the time of the O-Bon festival and the whole village got very excited about this finding.

It is said to have been the face of the famous and feared warlord Taira no Masakado, who had made a prayer here to win a fight, but had his head severed by Fujiware no Hidesato 藤原秀郷 instead. Masakado appeared here to show his eternal grudge and hatred.
source : 　www.city.moriya.ibaraki.jp

On the same link of Moriyama town there is another card of a temple with a reference to Masakado and Fudo Myo-O.
Kuyoo no mon, 九曜の紋, the family crest of nine days. The big circle represents the sun and the eight smaller ones are the days of the week from monday to sunday, the other two represent Shakyamuni Buddha and Fudo Myo-O.
Masakado brought the belief in the stars to the area of Moriyama.

The crest is also called :
Kuyoo Hoshi Mon ..（九曜星紋）or Kuyoo Mon （九曜紋）

I have more about Taira no Masakado HERE:
The famous head mound of Masakado in Tokyo

Wikipedia : Taira no Masakado, died 940

Stone Memorial in honor of Kobayashi Issa

行く歳や空の名残りを守谷まで
iku toshi ya sora no nagori o Moriya made

the year passes by -
leaving part from the sky
to Moriya

Tr. Nakamura Sakuo

Sairin-Ji sora no nagori o ... Issa no hi

Temple Sairin-Ji
leaving part from the sky ...
stone memorial of Issa

Issa stayed at the temple Sairin-Ji　西林寺 for quite a while and they had many haiku meetings there.

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Back to the Fudo Stones !

”不動明王碑”
CLICK for more stone memorials !

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Kuyoo Mon ... 九曜紋 ...Nine Stars Crest ... and Taira no Masakado 平将門

Iwa, Fudo Iwa : Stones and Rocks like Fudo 不動岩

Magaibutsu Stone Carvings 磨崖仏不動

and
Jomo Karuta (Joomoo Karuta) 上毛かるた.
A card game from Gunma prefecture

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YAMAGUCHI Ryuzo-Ji

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The 18 Fudo Pilgrim Temples of Yamaguchi
十八不動三十六童子霊場

Temple Ryuzo-Ji (Ryuuzooji) . 龍蔵寺

Yamaguchi City, 山口市吉敷１７５０番地

© PHOTO :　www.oterasan.co.jp/~ryuzouji

This temple was founded in 698 by En no Gyoja. In 741 the priest Gyoki Bosatsu choose this place for his ascetic practises and venerated a statue of Kannon with 1000 arms. He also gave it its present name, Ryuzo-Ji. Dainichi Nyorai is venerated here. It is the oldest temple in Yamaguchi City.
Today the statue of Kannon with a horse-head (Bato Kannon 馬頭観音) is venerated in the main hall.
In the precincts is a famous Gingko tree of more than 1000 years. There is also a famous waterfall, Tsuzumi no Taki 鼓の滝, in three steps, altogether 37 meters steep.

This temple is one of the 18 Fudo pilgrim temples of Yamaguchi prefecture. This pilgrimage was started in 1989 with a wish for world peace. See below.

This Fudo Statue is about 10 meters high. It was built by the sculptor Kishi Takashi 貴志佳史.
It is Nr. 12 of the Yamaguchi Fudo Pilgrimage and contains reliques of the Buddha.
Is is a "Holy Fudo", Daisho Fudo Myo-O . 大聖不動明王.

source : 龍蔵寺 : 山口県

more about
Daisho Fudo (Daishoo Fudoo) . 大聖不動明王 Holy Fudo,
Incarnation of Dainichi Nyorai : 大日大聖不動明王

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The 18 Fudo Pilgrim Temples of Yamaguchi
十八不動三十六童子霊場

1番浄瑠璃山国分寺 Kokubunji 高野山真言宗下関市南部町4-1
2番松尾山安養寺 Anyo-Ji 高野山真言宗下関市大字吉見上1377
3番霊松山西光寺真言宗御室派下関市大字吉母545
4番金剛山千寿院真言宗御室派下関市菊川町大字田部587
5番湯谷山最明寺真言宗（単立）下関市菊川町大字上保木354-1

6番悉地山能満寺真言宗御室派長門市俵山2441
7番桜山南原寺真言宗御室派美祢市伊佐町南原
8番月輪山円政寺真言宗御室派萩市古萩町6
9番寄舟山弘法寺真言宗御室派萩市土原三区の一
10番樫木山阿弥陀寺真言宗御室派山口市秋穂二島向東2214

11番青龍山浄福寺高野山真言宗山口市嘉川265
12番瀧塔山龍蔵寺真言宗御室派山口市吉敷1750
13番華宮山阿弥陀寺華厳宗防府市牟礼上坂本1869
14番二井寺山極楽寺真言宗御室派岩国市周東町上久原神幡８６６
15番弥山寺真言宗御室派柳井市柳井西後地3941
16番三王山西長寺真言宗御室派大島郡周防大島町日見973
17番高松山清鏡寺真言宗御室派光市浅江2-1-14
18番妙見山鷲頭寺 (Jutooji) 真言宗御室派下松市中市91
..... Myoken-Gu Juto-Ji 妙見宮鷲頭寺（みょうけんぐうじゅとうじ)

source : 　山口十八不動三十六童子霊場

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Temple Nr. 1 Kokubunji

This temple has been erected in 741 by Gyoki Bosatsu. It has been protected by the feudal lords of Ouchi and Mori. In 1891 it has been re-located to its present location at Nambucho 南部町.

... to be added ...

Temple Nr. 18 Myoken-Gu Juto-Ji
It has been founded by Kudara-Oji Rinsho Taishi 琳聖太子, a prince of Korea, disputed ancestor of the Ouchi clan 大内　and been the family temple of the Ouchi clan ever since.
It is also strongly related to the belief in the Deity Myoken and thus a mixutre between shrine and temple.
On January 7 there is a great New Year Market in honor of the god Daikoku.

More about :
Myooken Bosatsu 妙見菩薩 and the Star Deities

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En no Gyoja 役行者、E no Ozunu 小角

Daruma Pilgrims in Japan: Gyoki Bosatsu

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Umegafuchi Fudo

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Umegafuchi Fudo Hall ... 梅ヶ淵不動堂

Holy Fudo
Dainichi Daishoo Namikiri Fudo
大日大聖波切不動明王様

A Fudo to grant one wish, Ichigan Fudo.
一願不動明王様 and

Namikiri Fudo .. Wave-cutting Fudo 波切不動尊

The statues of this temple has been venerated for more than 700 years.
There is also a Kannon Statue at the temple.

Temple Fukusho-Ji (Fukushooji) 福昌寺
This temple was the official temple of the former Satsuma domain.
Kagoshima 鹿児島県鹿児島市伊敷町6744

The Fudo Waterfall

Talisman with Fudo

source : namikiri dojo

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The priest Keian Genju lived here at Ume ga fuchi.
He was an advisor to the Shimazu Lord around 1508, because he had been to Mainland China to study Zen and Confucianism.
けいあん‐げんじゅ【桂庵玄樹】
His stone grave is in the area.

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Ichigan Fudo ... 一願不動 ... "One Wish" Fudo.

Namikiri Fudo Wave-cutting Fudo 波切不動尊

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NORTH . Kitamuki and Kimon

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Kitamuki Fudo ... 北向き不動 ...
Fudo facing North
北向きのお不動さん , 北向不動
kita-muki, kita muki
The north is considered an un-auspicious region and needs protection from real and imagined enemies, fiends and demons. 　
The deity usually associated with the NORTH is

Bishamonten 毘沙門天
Vaishravana ~ Heavenly King of the North

Tortoise (Black Warrior) = North, Winter, Black, Water　
Genbu 玄武

More is here
Four Directions (toozai nanboku)East, West, North, South

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Kimon, the "Demon Gate" 鬼門

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Chinese geomancy (Ch: feng shui), a system for determining auspicious or inauspicious placements and orientations of cities, temples, houses, and graves. In Chinese thought, the northeast quarter is considered to be particularly inauspicious. The northeast direction is known as the "demon gate," which can be loosely translated as the place where "demons gather and enter." This belief was imported by the Japanese and is referred to as Kimon (literally "Demon Gate").
Kimon generally means ominous direction, or taboo direction. In Japan, both the monkey and the fox are guardians against evil Kimon influences.

In Japan, the monkey's role in guarding against demons originates from the Japanese word for monkey (猿, pronounced saru), which is a homonym for the Japanese word "expel" (去る, also pronounced saru). The latter word means to "dispel, punch out, push away, beat away."
source : 　MONKEY IN JAPAN / Mark Schumacher

© PHOTO :　taishi

The KIMON for the city of Kyoto was the double-peaked Mt. Hiei.
. WKD : Hieizan Temple Enryakuji 比叡山延暦寺　
See the haiku of Issa below.

Kimon Konjin 鬼門金神
was another powerful deity of the North-East (ushitora, ox-tiger).
WKD : The Deity of Metal, Konjin

His heavenly direction changes with every year and if you do something to displease him, he will kill seven people (nanasatsu 七殺) (even your neighbours) to show his wrath.

There were four days, one in each season, in his honor where you had to be especially careful not do anything to anger this deity.
春の丑の日、夏の申の日、秋の未の日、冬の酉の日
ox day in spring, monkey day in summer,
sheep day in autumn, cock day in winter

Photo source : 神霊の思頼
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Let us look at some Fudo Myo-O, facing North !

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At the temple Fudo-Ji 不動寺 in Kyoto.
It is also called Matsubara Fudo 松原不動.
下京区松原通麩屋町

Emperor Kanmu Tenno 桓武天皇 had four "Iwakura" Sacred Stone Areas constructed in Kyoto, one for each heavenly direction. This temle was in the south : 南岩倉　明王院不動寺.
Today the temple is rather small and looks almost like a normal old house.

There is also another temple in South Iwakura, Konzo-Ji (Konzooji) 金蔵寺, with a famous "Ichigan Fudo" .

This temple is on the northern side of Matsubara Road. Its original function was to protect the capital against demons and evil from the the Northern Side.

Its statue is also called :
"Holy Fudo", Daishoo Fudo 大聖不動

The Four Iwakura Temples

北岩倉：山住神社（左京区岩倉河原町）

西岩倉：金蔵寺（西京区大原野石作町）

東岩倉：観勝寺（左京区粟田口大日町）

南岩倉：不動寺 this one

sources : ”北向き不動”

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Temple Ho-On In 報恩院
Osaka 大阪市中央区高津1-2-28

This temple had been burned down during WW II and even the Fudo statue as we see it today shows signs of severe burning.
It now stands facing North under a large camphor tree.

On the other side is another statue facing south,
Minamimuki Fudo 南向き不動尊

source : 　pilgrimari.exblog.jp

Tempel Number 5 of the Kinki Fudo Pilgrimage
近畿三十六不動尊巡礼

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At Otsu Town
大津の北向き不動様

© PHOTO :　月光山洗心庵

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Temple Ensho-Ji (Enshoji) , Iruma City, Saitama
円照寺不動堂（えんしょうじふどうどう）

The "Fudo facing North" has its own hall 北向き不動堂 to the left of the main gate. It was re-constructed in the year 1779. Now the roof tiles have been changed to copper.

© PHOTO :　www.city.iruma.saitama.jp

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MORE kitamuki Fudo

sources : ”北向き不動”

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Fudo protecting the North-East Demon Gate
Kimon Yoke no Fudo
In Kamakura, Juniso
This was in the North-East direction of Kamakura, the old capital of Japan.
不動明王は鎌倉幕府の鬼門除けの不動さま
明王院（神奈川県鎌倉市十二所32)
... Kamakura, a Haiku Town in Japan

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Jizo facing North
Kitamuki-Jizo 北向き地蔵

A long time ago, the Ikuta River flowed south from the intersection of Kano-cho along Flower Road. One year, when there was a severe rain, people moved busily about on the riverbanks, stacking sandbags to reinforce weak spots. "Is the bank OK over there?"

"Hey, over here, the bank upstream is about to break!" Several people grabbed sandbags and rushed upstream. The rain, continuing for several days, caused the dirty water of the Ikuta River to increase, and the flow was strong. There were several spots along the banks that looked like they would break soon, but as night fell there were no more sandbags left for reinforcement.

The exhausted people went into the watch lodge on the hill by the bank, where they sat with extreme fatigue. Then they heard sounds of something dragging, then a booming sound, then something rubbing against something else. It sounded like something heavy was being dragged; the sound came from the direction of the river. Another dragging sound, then the sound of something heavy falling in to the water, then water gurgling… It sounded as if something was sinking into the river.

However, the villagers were too tired to go back outside, and one by one fell asleep. When morning came, they found that the sky had cleared and the sun was shining. People got up, went outside to look at the banks, and exclaimed. "Oh my, look there! There's a big tree stuck there, and the bank looks ready to give way!"

"The bank has been reinforced with a big rock." "Look, the Kitamuki-Jizou is on top of the rock!" "That sound we heard last night was the doings of Kitamuki-Jizou. He came to fix the weakened bank. He protected our village."
The thankful people built a hall enshrining Kitamuki-Jizou west of Ikuta River.
source : 　kobe city chuo ward

Kitamuki Jizo

Read this essay:
Wayside Shrines at Urban Train Stations:
Religion at the Crossroads
Kitamuki Jizo at Umeda, Osaka

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Kannon Bosatsu facing North
Kitamuki Kannon 北向き観音

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Kitamuki Hachiman Shrine 北向八幡宮
Suma, Kobe City
It was built in 1484.

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By Kobayashi Issa

鳶の巣も鬼門に持や日枝の山
tobi no su mo kimon ni motsu ya hie no yama

the black kite's nest, too
in the unlucky direction...
Mount Hie

鳥の巣も鬼門に立つや日枝の山
tori no su mo kimon ni tatsu ya hie no yama

the bird's nest, too
in the unlucky direction...
Mount Hie

明星や庵の鬼門の梅の花
myôjô ya io no kimon no ume no hana

morning star--
on my hut's unlucky side
plum blossoms

More KIMON haiku
Tr. David Lanoue

WKD : Morning Star

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Four Directions (toozai nanboku)East, West, North, South
東西南北

Demons ONI 鬼　＜＞　.. Oni, Namahage and more

. Oni 鬼　Demon Amulets .

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Daisho Holy Fudo

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Holy Fudo . Daisho Fudo (Daishoo Fudoo)
大聖不動明王

This is Fudo in his incarnation of
Dainichi Nyorai, 大日如来.

Also called : 大日大聖不動明王

At temple Byodo-Ji (Byoodooji) 平等寺
"Miwa Fudo" 三輪不動明王
made by Kobo Daishi himself

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Read the details HERE :
DAINICHI NYORAI
Mark Schumacher

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大聖不動明王... Holy Fudo in the Daruma Museum

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Ichigan One Wish

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Ichigan Fudo .. 一願不動 .. One Wish Fudo
（いちがんふどう）

Ichigan, you make one promise or wish and when this is fulfilled, you come back to the temple, make a thank you prayer and offer a wooden votive tablet (ema). Then you can then make your next wish. So be sure to wish for something that can be fulfilled within reason ...

Here are two samples from the
Shikoku Fudo Pilgrimage to 36 Fudo Temples.

Shikoku Fudo Pilgrimage .. Nr.19
Temple Nr. 19 . Hoju-Ji (Hoojuji) . 宝寿寺

Shikoku Fudo Pilgrimage .. Nr.28
Temple Nr. 28 . Hagiwara Ji . 萩原寺

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At the temple Daiyu-Ji (Daijuuji) 太融寺
Kita, Osaka 大阪市北区太融寺町3

This temple is famous for the history of Minamoto no Tooru 源融 and Emperor Saga Tenno.
Kobo Daishi built this temple on the strong wish of Emperor Saga in 821.
chokugan, the strong vow or promise, and temples built on the behest of an emperor are often called "Chokuganji" ちょくがんじ【勅願寺】.
The main statue of this temple was a Kannon with thousand arms, shown only once a year on January 18.
The large photo shows the old statue of Fudo Myo-O before the war. It is lost now. The hall for this "one wish Fudo" had also been built on behest of Emperor Saga.
Many people come here, make one vow or wish, walk around the statue once or sometimes even one hundred times.

Fudo in the Hall

© PHOTO :　pilgrimari.exblog.jp

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"Waterfall Fudo Temple" Takidani Fudo, Osaka
滝谷不動明王寺（滝谷不動尊）
大阪府富田林市大字彼方1762

This temple has been established by Kobo Daishi Kukai in 821. It was build on the strong behest of Emperor Saga for the wellbeing of the people. The statue of Fudo was carved by Kobo Daishi.
It is counted as one of the three most famous Fudo Temples.

This is a statue where people throw water over Fudo whilst making a wish.
Mizukake Fudo.水掛不動尊

In the hall for the Ichigan Fudo 一願不動堂

Fudo in the Hall

© PHOTO :　www.motoharusumi.com
CLICK at this LINK for more photos.

One of the 36 Fudo Temples in the Kinki Pilgrimage.
近畿36不動尊霊場, 第32番札所

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From the pilgrimage to 88 temples in Settsu.
摂津国八十八箇所

At the temple Shoen-Ji (Shooenji) 正圓寺
Osaka 大阪市阿倍野区松虫通

At the temple Senkoji (Senkooji) 全興寺
Osaka 大阪市平野区平野本町

© PHOTOs :　motutyan3

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Stone Cliff Fudo at Iwabune
岩船不動明王磨崖仏 . （一願不動）
at Toono, Nara prefecture 当尾(とおの)

© PHOTO :　kasihara_diary

more about these stone carvings:
Magaibutsu Stone Carvings 磨崖仏不動

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There are quite a few temples with this Fudo in Japan.
Click on this photo to see more.
一願不動明王

at temple Konzo-Ji (Konzooji) 金蔵寺

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Other ICHIGAN Deities

One Wish Kannon, Ichigan Kannon 一願観音

One Wish Jizo, Ichigan Jizoo 一願地蔵

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See also:
Ichiji Fudo ... 一事不動 "One Item Fudo"

EMA <> Votive Tablets 絵馬

Three Most Famous Fudo . 三大不動尊 Sandai Fudo Son

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Three Most Famous Fudo

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Three Most Famous Fudo ... 三大不動尊
Sandai Fudo Son

Number One

東京都目黒区・目黒不動尊
Meguro Fudo Temple

Number Two

千葉県成田市・成田不動尊
Narita Fudo and peace pagoda 成田山平和大塔

Number Three
(here are more than one candidate !)

福島県福島市・中野不動尊 Nakano Fudo
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群馬県中之条町・大岩不動尊 Ooiwa Fudo (Big Rock)
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長野県須坂市・米子不動尊 Yonago Fudo
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新潟県・菅谷不動尊 Sugatani Fudo

石川県津幡町・倶利迦羅不動尊
Kurikara Fudo

Takidani FudoWaterfall-Valley Fudo ... 滝谷不動尊
Osaka, 大阪府富田林市
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三重県志摩町・爪切り不動尊 Urikiri Fudo
Melon-cutting Fudo
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佐賀県北方町・大聖寺 Temple Daisho-Ji (Daishooji)

熊本県富合町・木原不動尊(長寿寺)
Kihara Fudoson ... 木原不動尊

"Upstream Fudo", Kawakami Fudo 川上不動
Shikoku Fudo Pilgrim Temple Nr. 17 . Soan-Ji (Sooanji) 宗安寺

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Three Great Fudo in the Kanto Area
関東三大不動（かんとうさんだいふどう）

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高幡山金剛寺（たかはたさんこんごうじ）、
Takahata Fudo ..

2
成田山新勝寺（なりたさんしんしょうじ）
Narita Fudo and peace pagoda 成田山平和大塔

3
玉嶹山總願寺（ぎょくとうさんそうがんじ）
Temple Sogan-Ji (Sooganji)
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雨降山大山寺（あぶりさんだいさんじ、おおやまでら）を加えるとする説もある。
總願寺、大山寺に代えて
Oyama Fudo and Fire Rituals ... 大山不動、神奈川県

or
高貴山常楽院（こうきさんじょうらくいん）を加えるとする説もある。
Temple Joraku-In (Joorakuin)

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Three Great Fudo of Niigata Prefecture
新潟にある三大不動尊

菅谷お不動尊 Sugatani Fudo Son
毎年８月１４日はお祭りが開催され
The Great Festival is on August 14 every year.
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Nezumi Fudo

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Nezumi Fudo . 鼠不動 . Mouse Fudo

A Fudo with Yellow Eyes.
This statue at the temple Eikyu-Ji (Eikyuuji) 永久寺 in Tokyo, near Minowa station.
It was founded in 860 by Priest Ennin.

The Fudo statue was carved by Jikaku Daishi Ennin 慈覚大師円仁 and is similar to the Meguro Fudo.

It is said that the mice ran away in horror of this statue, hence its name.

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Reference :鼠不動

Mouse Fudo, Nezumi Fudo
Temple Nr. 2 of the Shikoku Fudo Pilgrimage
第０２番　麿日山　　慈眼寺　　鼠不動　　　
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Yellow Fudo, Ki Fudo　黄不動明王

Ennin 円仁

Mouse Daruma ... Nezumi Daruma

. Ne 子 / nezumi 鼠　 Rat, Mouse Amulets .

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Namiwake and Gongen

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Wave-parting Fudo . 波分不動明王 .
Namiwake Fudo
at Temple Dainichibo, Yudonosan

When Kukai Kobo Daishi was on his way to China to study Buddhism, this Fudo saved the ship when he was travelling from the severe storm.
Now the statue is revered as protector of the fishing boats and granter of a good catch.

source : www.kotobuki-p.co.jp

Dainichibo (Dainichi Boo 大日坊)

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Yudonosan ranks with Ise and Kumano as one of the three great sacred places in Japan. From ancient times, it was called the “unspeakable mountain”, and there was a strict religious commandment forbidding anyone to speak of the sacredness of Yudonosan.

Dainichibo was founded in the second year of Daido (AD 807) by Kukai Kobo-Daishi. The correct title of the temple is Yudonosan-Ryusuiji-Kongoin, and in fact, “Dainichibo” is the main hall of the temple though we usually recognize it as the generic name of the temple.

In the 19th year of Keicho (AD 1614), Kongoin-Ryusuiji was dedicated as an inner shrine of Ise. Dainichi-Nyorai (Mahavirocana) was enshrined in Dainichibo where many priests belonged, and Dainichibo flourished as the main hall of the temple.

Since women used to be forbidden to visit Yudonosan, Kukai Kobo-Daishi founded this temple for them to worship Yudonosan-Daigongen out of pity. This is the beginning of the temple, Yudonosan-Dainichibo.
The temple has suffered a number of misfortunes such as Haibutsu-Kishaku, a fire, and a landslide, but has continued to maintain its religious traditions for 1,200 years. Today the chief prieast covers 95 generations.
source : 　www.dainichibou.or.jp

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This kind of Namiwake Fudo is also worshipped at the Shrine
Funatama Jinja in Hakodate, Hokkaido.
Funadama Jinja 「船魂神社（ふなだまじんじゃ）」

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The high priest Ryonin came here and built a temple dedicated to Kannon in order to spread the Yuzu Nenbutsu Buddhism, saying that this place is designated as holy by the Goddess of Mercy. The temple is said to have originated in 1135 and to be the oldest one in Hokkaido, but this has not been confirmed.
There is also a legend that when Yoshitsune Minamoto came from Tsugaru, his ship was in danger of being ship wrecked, but was saved by virture of Funadama' s gracious diety.

This temple used to be called Kannondo (a temple dedicated to Kannon) but was renamed Funadama Gracious Diety at the end of the Edo period. The Funadama Shrine became a villege shrine in 1879. As the main building of the Shinto shrine, rebuilt in 1892 , was ravaged by a disastrous fire in 1907, the object of worship was temporarily removed to the Hakodate Hachiman Shrine in Yachigashiracho.
The main shrine was built in 1932. The present building was built in 1962.
source : 　The city of Hakodate

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At the Temple Dainichi-Bo there are many more interesting statues, here I want to introduce just two more Gongen types.

Ii no Yama, Byaku-I Gongen 飯山白衣権現

This statue is said to be more than 1000 years old. It is in fact a White Kannon (byaku-i Kannon) with a strong female aspect. Women come to this statue to pray for an easy birth and healthy children.

Izuna Gongen, Iizuna no Gongen 飯網の権現
(いずなごんげん)

This is an incarnation of the Fox Deity, Inari. People pray to him for a bountiful harvest and good luck in business. He looks like a Tengu, a long-nosed goblin.
Some Yamabushi sects thin Iizuna (Izuna) is the original Japanese form (honji) of Fudo Myo-0, especially at Mt. Takao near Tokyo.

. Izuna Daigongen 飯縄大権現 at Mt. Takao 　
Fudo with the face of Garuda

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Here is a modern version of Iizuna Gongen :

In the Nanbokucho era, Shungen of Godaiji-temple in Kyoto entered Mt.Takao (near Hachioji in Tokyo). It is said that he was manifested by Iizuna Gongen. Since then, Mt. Takao has been the principal place of Iizuna Gongen belief, however, mountaineering ascetic is originally the religion which came from the area of Mt. Iizuna, Mt. Togakushi in Shinshu. He has the same style of Akiba Gongen.

Akibagongen 秋葉権現
Born in 799 the name is Kanekuni, he became a priest when he was a little child. He lived in a temple in Zaoo-do in Tochio-city in Niigata-prefecture. He was a mountaineering ascetic believing Iizuna Gongen. He was commonly called Sanjaku-bou (small monk 三尺坊権現（さんじゃくぼうごんげん）) because he was small. When he attained Fudou Zanmai Hou he got manifested by a black bird with golden wings holding a sword and a rope in the flame of fire. It is said that he went down to Akiba Yama in Shizuoka-prefecture riding on a white fox for himself. He became the god for calming fire
source : www.butuzou.co.jp : kurita

Akiba Gongen

. 成就院（たこ薬師）Temple Joju-In .
Meguro, Tokoy, with a statue of Akiba Daigongen　秋葉大権現

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Iconographically, Izuna Gongen is usually depicted in a form resembling that of a tengu (a mythical winged demon with long nose believed to live deep in the mountains), and riding upon a white fox, a depiction resembling that of the deity Akiba Gongen (Sanshaku Gongen).

Since Akiba Gongen is also believed to have originated in the Mt. Izuna and Togakushi area, the two deities are obviously closely related. Since the Buddhist counterpart (honji or "original essence"; see honji suijaku) of Izuna Gongen is said to be the bodhisattva Jizō (Sk. Ksitigarbha), the cult displays a mutual influence with the Atago cult (which involved an amalgamation with Shōgun Jizō or "Jizō of victory"). As a result, the deities are often referred to by the conjoined name Izuna-Atago.

The Izuna cult also underwent combination from an early period with the cult of the Buddhist deity Dakini (Sk. Dakini), and a kind of magical technique was adopted from the medieval period involving the use of foxes as spirit familiars. This belief spread even among members of the court and warriors; the deputy shogun Hosokawa Masamoto (1466-1507) was known to have practiced the Izuna-Atago techniques (ref., Ashikaga kiseiki, Jūhen Ōninki), and the imperial regent Kujō Tanemichi (1509-1097) is likewise said to have studied Izuna practices (ref., Matsunaga Teitoku, Taionki).
Such practices involving on the control of spirit familiars of foxes (kitsune tsukai) later came to be called izuna tsukai.

The Izuna cult came to be associated with military arts as well, and Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin are known to have shown strong devotion to Izuna Gongen as a martial tutelary.
The school of Japanese fencing called Shintō Munenryū is also said to have originated at Mt. Izuna. In addition to Mt. Izuna in Nagano, Izuna Gongen can be found enshrined at Yakuōin on Mt. Takao (in Hachiōji, Tokyo), Hinagadake in Gifu, and Mt. Izuna in Sendai.

The Izuna Gongen of Sendai goes by the name Izuna Saburō, and is particularly well known as one of the "three tengū of Japan." Some scholars have suggested that belief in this tengu was responsible for the Izuna cult.
source : 　Itō Satoshi . Kokugakuin University.

. The Atago shrines of Japan .

Izuna Gongen

Izuna Gongen Hall at Mt. Takao

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This Fudo is a bit different from the
Namikiri Fudo . 波切不動, the Wave-cutting Fudo.

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External LINK

Gongen (Avatars) of Japan
Mark Schumacher

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Dainichi Bo (Dainichi boo) and the Living Mummies of Japan

TENGU and DARUMA ＜＞　Long-Nosed Goblins

Inari 稲荷　＜＞　The Fox God Cult Kitsune, the animal fox.

Konpira Daigongen . 金毘羅大権現 Kompira Daigongen

Zao Gongen 蔵王権現

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Nekotsuki and Monsters

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Fudo stabbing a Monster Cat (bakeneko)
Nekotsuki Fudo

『猫突』（ねこつき). 猫突不動明王

This is a secret statue at the temple Saisho-In, Saishoo In 最勝院 in Hirosaki town, Aomori prefecture.
最勝院秘仏猫突不動明王
青森県弘前市大字銅屋町６３番地

His Mantra is
のうまくさまんだばざらだんかん
noomaku samanda basaradan kan

This statue had been at the temple Daizen-In 高賀山大善院. It was already mentioned in old books of the Tsugaru peninsula.

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Let us look at the concept of a "monster cat", bakeneko, before proceeding to this special Fudo statue. This type of cat has supernatural abilities and sometimes a split tail.

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A bakeneko (化け猫, 化猫, "monster cat") is, in Japanese folklore, a cat with supernatural abilities akin to those of the fox or raccoon dog. A cat may become a bakeneko in a number of ways: it may reach a certain age, be kept for a certain number of years, grow to a certain size, or be allowed to keep a long tail.
In the last case, the tail forks in two and the bakeneko is then called a nekomata (猫又, nekomata? ,猫叉, or 猫股 "forked cat"). This superstition may have some connection to the breeding of the Japanese Bobtail.

A bakeneko will haunt any household it is kept in, creating ghostly fireballs, menacing sleepers, walking on its hind legs, changing its shape into that of a human, and even devouring its own mistress in order to shapeshift and take her place. When it is finally killed, its body may be as much as five feet in length. It also poses a danger if allowed into a room with a fresh corpse; a cat is believed to be capable of reanimating a body by jumping over it.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

In a Buddhist connection, a "monster cat" has the following abilities:

This monsterous evil cat is full of the three desires of humans 貪瞋癡（とんじんち, tonjinchi, bonno). When it openes its mouth, lies, slander and bad speach come out 悪口両舌(あっくりょうぜつ, akku ryoozetsu). Its claws could kill people and it would steal things 殺生偸盗（せっしょうちゅうとう, sesshoo chuutoo）. It also had the "wicked eye" to swear and curse people 瞋恚邪見（しんにじゃけん, shinni jaken）.

More about
Worldly desires, illusions, delusions (bonno)

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Here now the legend about this CAT.

Once upon a time ...

There was a monster cat at our temple that would tempt weak and cunning people and lead them into temptation and on evil ways. Therefore people in the neighbourhood were much afraid of it. It would also lick the oil from the temple lamps and when the oil was gone and all was dark it would steal things from the altar and eat the offerings.

In the beginning, one of the apprentice monks was thought to be the evil-doer and howevermuch he explained he did not steal the offerings, he was hit and thrown out of the temple. But but the evil deeds in the temple did not stop after he left.

The people of the village met and discussed what to do, but nothing seemed to help. The cat would always see the ruses of people and play even more bad tricks on them.

The stories of the evil monster cat made the rounds in the country and even the lord of the domain in his castle heared about it. The lord came to the temple Saisho-In and asked the head priest to engage the support of the deities.

So a secret ritual was held for seven days and prayers and fire rituals for Fudo Myo-O were performed three times a day during this week. When the last day of this ceremonies came, the evil cat tried to sneek into the main temple hall at midnight and eat some of the offerings.

And it happens in just that very "moment" (刹那 : せつな, setsuna, when an enlightened being snips his fingers and all things fall into place; when a rope woven of uncountable hairs is cut by the sword of a powerful being and only one hair is really cut into two parts. In modern Japan, one Setsuna equals 1/75 of a second. ）

Fudo on the alter platform raised his hand with the sword and within one setsuna he stabbed the cat right into its breast.

GYAAAAAAAAAAAAA !

A loud mewoing cry war heared everywhere in the temple. Then a cat ran out of the main hall, through the garden and over the wall of the temple ...

In the morning Fudo Myo-O appeared in the dream of the priest.
"I have punished this evil cat. Its dead body is now outside on the west side of the temple wall. Please give it a proper burial! "

When the priest woke up and went to the spot, he found a huge cat with a red mark on the breast. When he went back to the temple hall he saw red blood drip from the sword of Fudo Myo-O and his rope was in disorder as if it had just been used.

So the priest burried the cat, placed a stone marker on its grave and peace returned to the village.

source : www15.plala.or.jp

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The Monster Cats enjoying a Dance

Woodblock print by Kuniyoshi .

short night ...
at the strike of midnight
the monsters dance

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by 歌川芳艶 Utagawa Yoshitsuya (1822 - 1866)

Strange monsters of the following kind are afraid at the feet of this female Daruma

hashika 麻疹 measels
kinkan 金柑 cumquat
kaibaoke, kaiba oke 飼葉桶 bucket for animal feed
mugi 麦 wheat

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Ghost Stories, kaidan 怪談

Monsters and Ghosts of Japan

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Fudo and Death

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The Phenomenon of Invoking Fudō
for Pure Land Rebirth in Image and Text

Karen Mack

Invoking the esoteric Buddhist deity Fudō for rebirth is a lesser known aspect in the development of Pure Land worship. Fudō was invoked by reciting his incantation as a deathbed practice to attain proper mindfulness at death allowing rebirth into the Pure Land, particularly Miroku's Heaven, from the late Heian into the Kamakura period.

The association of Fudō and Miroku's Heaven extends back to the Tendai monk Sōō (ninth century), and invoking Fudō for rebirth was practiced by such notables as Emperor Shirakawa and the Kegon monk Myōe. Fudō was incorporated into Miroku Raigō paintings from the end of the twelfth century into the fourteenth century, probably as a last recourse by the traditional schools of Buddhism to the rising popularity of Amida worship and easy access to Amida's Pure Land through the nenbutsu.

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Conclusion

Fudō appears in Miroku Raigō paintings because he was associated with rebirth in Miroku's Tosotsu heaven since the time of Sōō. With the proliferation of accounts of invoking Fudō for rebirth in Miroku's Heaven, the association of Fudō and Miroku's Heaven grew ever closer. Fudō's efficacy in attaining rebirth in Miroku's Heaven was to eliminate the hindrances to rebirth and provide the prerequisites. The doctrinal source for this efficacy is found in the Hachimei darani kyō. This efficacy was important in Japan because of a widespread belief from the tenth century, not specific to any particular religious school, that maintaining proper mindfulness at the moment of death was crucial for successful rebirth.

The eclecticism of these beliefs is evidenced by the Miroku Raigō itself. The incorporation of Fudō and the Katsuragawa waterfall that is said to lead straight to Miroku's Heaven attest to the influence of the Tendai school and ascetic practices 314 Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 33/2 (2006) originated by Sōō. The incorporation of Kūkai attests to Shingon belief in Kūkai waiting in eternal samādhi on Mt. Koya for the descent of Miroku.

The stylistic iconography of the Miroku Raigō painting with the two foreground bodhisattvas holding a lotus and canopy attest to influence from paintings of Amida Raigō of approximately the same time, such as the fourteenth-century Amida and Fifteen Bodhisattvas Raigō owned by the Chion'in. The very origin of the Miroku Raigō painting ascribed to the Nara priest Jōgen attests to the esoteric influence within the Nara schools of Buddhism.

These Miroku Raigō paintings, which were generated at the end of the twelfth century and continued to be painted into the fourteenth century, were probably produced within the traditional schools of Buddhism as a last recourse to the rising popularity of the new Kamakura schools promoting Amida worship and easy access to Amida's Pure Land, which soon eclipsed the older schools in popularity. By relying on the nenbutsu to attain rebirth in the Pure Land, one no longer needed Fudō's mantra to eliminate the hindrances to rebirth and this practice of intoning Fudō's mantra for proper mindfulness at the moment of death fell out of use.

source : Karen Mack : Nanzan University ... ... PDF FILE

Sōō 相応 (831–918)
Myōe 明恵 (1173–1232)
Fudō's "Mantra of Compassionate Help" (Jikushu 慈救呪)

BCC is here

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Mantras of Fudo Myo-O 不動明王の真言

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Mei-O Temple

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Mei-O Temple , Mei-O Ji 明王寺
龍華山　

明王寺（めいおうじ） Shingon Sect

This temple is located in Kobe city.
神戸市垂水区名谷町1900

this temple is close to the famous Tenporin-ji 転法輪寺 (轉法輪寺), the oldest temple in the area (founded in 806), which had been burned down many times and to protect it from the wrath of the elements, this temple Mei-O Ji was erected. The fierce Fudo Myo-O then protected the buildings.

source : pilgrimari.exblog.jp : ro-shin

Temple Myo-o Ji

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Pilgrimmage to 33 Temples in Akashi, Kobe
This temple is Nr. 28 of the pilgrimage.

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Kutaki Big Fudo

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Kegon Fudo Waterfall in Chichibu

Kutaki Dai Fudo Son
空滝大不動尊（埼玉県秩父郡）

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Daigo-ji

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At Temple Daigo-ji

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Seated Fudō Myōō
Kaikei, Kamakura period, 1203 (Kennin 3)
Polychrome wood

Exhibition

Temple Treasures of a Sacred MountainDaigo-ji -
The Secret Buddhism in Japan
25 April to 24 August 2008, Bonn Germany

Shingon Buddhism
The exhibition is an introduction to Shingon Buddhism and presents the Daigo-ji temple as a key cultural heritage site. It demonstrates the way in which religion reverberates through art and history. The unfamiliar pictorial language that characterises much of Esoteric or Secret Buddhism is examined in the context of its religious teachings in order to elucidate the roots of its symbolism and its ritual significance.

The art of Shingon Buddhism often seems confusing because of the large number of Buddhas and the unusual forms they take. By focusing on those figures of the pantheon that are relevant in the context of the Daigo-ji temple, the exhibition provides an insight into the basic structure of Shingon imagery.

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醍醐寺不動明王

In 874, a Buddhist monk Shobo, who is known under his posthumous name of Rigen Daishi (the Great Master of Holy Treasures), built a hermitage to which Kannon (Avalokitesvara) statues of Juntei and Nyoirin were dedicated on the top of the Kamidaigo mountain where he discovered a well of the spiritual water named Daigo through an inspiration from a local god Yokoo Daimyojin. This is the origin of Daigoji temple. After a while pious supports of Emperor Daigo (897-930), Suzaku (930-46), and Murakami (946-67) contributed to development of Daigoji temple complex.

In 907, for instance, the Yakushi hall was constructed to fulfill the imperial wish of Emperor Daigo. The temple complex of Kamidaigo (the upper part of Daigo) was completed by construction of the Godai hall. Consequently a plan of the Shimodaigo (the lower part of Daigo) complex was carried on. The Sakyamuni hall built in 926 and the five-storied pagoda built in 951 were consisted of the prototype of the Shimodaigo temple complex.

Since then Daigoji has played an important role as a main temple of Shingon school Ono branch in a history of Japanese Buddhism. Moreover, it might be worthwhile to note that many politicians in power have had a close family relationship with this temple. For instance, the linage of Minamoto Toshifusa, called Daigo Minamoto family, were the heads of this temple for many generations. Minamoto Toshifusa is known for having seized power instead of Fujiwara family in the late Heian period.

When his son Shokaku was the head of the temple, the temple complex of both Kamidaigo and Shimodaigo was more developed and the Sanboin was constructed in 1115. From his time on Daigoji temple had enjoyed its prosperity. However, Daigoji temple suffered from several fires. The fire especially caused by Onin and Bunmei wars in Kyoto city destroyed the Shimodaigo complex except the five-storied pagoda. It is fortunate that nowadays we can see the pagoda built in 951. In Kamidaigo complex the Juntei hall is well known as the eleventh place of the pilgrimage in the Western part of Japan and the Godai hall is as the center of the Godai-san faith.

The treasures in Daigoji which amount to more than a hundred thousand are preserved in Reihokan. Some of them are exhibited to the public in spring and autumn.

Hanami Parade.
On the secound Sunday of April
In the spring of 1598 Toyotomi Hideyoshi organized a gorgeous Hanami (Cherry-blossom viewing) party. Participants of the party amounted about 900, in which Hideyoshi's wife Kitanomandokoro, his son Hideyori, Hideyori's mother Yodo, several Daimyos and Shomyos, and so on, were included. This can be regarded as the last splendour of the person in power, for Hideyoshi died at the same year.

Read more here on the English HP of Temple Daigoji
©　www.daigoji.or.jp

Fudo Waterfall at Temple Daigo-Ji

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The bent Fudo .. Yojiri Fudo . よぢり不動
by Buddhist Painter Yoshihide 絵仏師良秀

©　PHOTO : www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp

（醍醐寺蔵良秀様不動明王図像）

The painter of this work ran out of his burning home to look at the flames, leaving wife and child to perish, but he painted the flames of Fudo !
The painting is in the store of Daigo-Ji.

............................ I found the story here also:

Long, long ago there lived an old artist in a town. His specialty was to paint images of Buddha; especially Fudo Myo-o---the Buddhist Divinity of Fire.

One day he was painting as usual. He concentrated his attention on his work. The Buddha he was working on was almost finished, but he wasn't satisfied with it. He sat at the picture all day, took a look at it, and added a blush or two, and took another look, one more blush was added...
It was windy that night. Suddenly a fire broke out from the neighboring house.
"Fire! Fire!" his wife panicked and cried.

But the artist was still gazing at his picture with a frown and arms crossed. Soon the fire started attacking his house. The smoke came into his room with the sounds of burning. No time to escape! His wife pulled his sleeve desperately, and cried frantically,

"Get out, or you'll be burned to death!"
The husband said to her calmly,

"Wait! I have to finish this work." He brushed her hand aside and kept on staring at the picture. Then there was a big sound! Part of the roofs was burned to the ground.
"Wow," the wife jumped out of the room in a hurry.

The flame caught his picture. The artist came to himself and rushed out of the burning house. He had a very narrow escape from the fire. Then he stood on the other side of the street to watch his house burning. An hour later, it burned down completely.

"We feel great sorrow for you." the neighbors consoled him for his bad luck.
"......." he didn't answer them, but kept looking at the ruins.
People came to him one after another to express their sympathy, but he said nothing. It looked like he had been meditating. His wife was worried about him and spoke to him nervously,
"What happened to you? Are you all right?"

He babbled something to her and smiled. Seeing him, many people there thought that he had gone mad because he had lost his house.
His wife asked him again,
"Are you all right?"
Then he said to her rather clearly,

"I've kept painting for many years. But I was never completely satisfied with my work. Thanks to this fire, I've learned something important. It was a wonderful experience for me."
Somehow he looked happy. People around him calmly listened to him.

"As you know I've painted images of Buddha with flames on his back. Now I should say the way I painted the flames was wrong. I've just learned how to paint the flames for the first time in my life. That's an eye opener for me. I can't wait to paint a new image of Buddha. This experience will add a new perspective into my picture."

Fudo Myo-o---its appearance is impressive, the angry face is scared. But inside the Buddha is full of love to people who are agonizing. The Buddha tries to give them a hand with a sword in its right hand, a rope in his left hand. The flames on his back show they will burn people's 108 worldly desires.

The images of Fudo Myo-o he painted from then on drew people's attention. They said his images seemed to sit in the real burning flames to save people. They wanted to have one since just looking at the images, they felt relieved. Soon he made enough money to rebuild a bigger house. The Buddha painter Yoshihide was ranked among the most gifted artists at that time.
©　(2007.6.1 With Itaya)

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Seiryuu Gongen at temple Daigo-Ji 清瀧権現, 醍醐寺

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Shimomura Kanzan

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Shimomura Kanzan 下村観山

Kanzan Shimomura (10 April 1873 – 10 May 1930)
was the pseudonym of a nihonga painter in Meiji through to the early Showa period Japan. His real name was Shimomura Seizaburō.

Kanzan was born in 1873 in Wakayama city, Wakayama prefecture into a family of hereditary Noh actors.

Having moved to Tokyo at the age of eight, Kanzan studied under Kanō Hōgai, and after Hōgai's death, under Hashimoto Gahō. He graduated first in his class at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkō (the forerunner of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music), and became a teacher at the same institution in 1894.

When Okakura Tenshin left government service to establish the Japan Fine Arts Academy (Nihon Bijutsuin), Kanzan joined him, together with Yokoyama Taikan and Hishida Shunso. However, Kanzan returned to his teaching post at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko from 1901-1908, with a hiatus from 1903-1905, when he went to study in England.

From 1914, he helped reestablish the Japan Fine Arts Academy, and in 1917 was appointed a court painter to the Imperial Household Agency. He served as a judge for both the Bunten and the Inten Exhibitions.

In terms of style, Kanzan was influenced by the Rimpa and the Kano schools, as well as early Buddhist paintings and Tosa school emaki. To these elements, he combined the realism developed from his exposure to western art works during his stay in England.

One of his representative works is a byōbu titled Yoroboshi or "The Beggar Monk" was created in 1915 in colored ink and gold leaf on paper. It is currently housed in the Tokyo National Museum, and is registered as an Important Cultural Property by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. The screen depicts a scene from a famous Noh play of the same name. In the scene, blind monk, has been falsely accused of a crime. Disowned by his family he wanders about, living as a vagrant. Although he is now blind, he has become one with the universe and can see all that surrounds him. Kanzan borrowed heavily from Momoyama period and Edo period style and composition, and the work shows a strong Rimpa influence.
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「不動尊」 Fudo Myo-O
大正14（1925）年

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Butsudan Altar Scroll with Fudo Myo-O

Main Article is HERE
Buddhist Family Altar, butsudan 仏壇

Three Deities of the Shingon Sect

Fudo ..... Dainichi Nyorai .... Kobo Daishi Kukai
不動明王　大日如来　弘法大師
真言宗

Shingon Sect Family Altar
you can see the statue of Fudo on the left

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Shikoku Fudo Pilgrims ENTER

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四国三十六不動尊霊場会 ...
Fudo Pilgrims in Shikoku

Goods for the Shikoku Fudo Pilgrimage

Map of the Pilgrimage

Book for the stamps

Scroll for the stamps

White Pilgrim's Robe

More goods are here
source : 　www.eitikai.co.jp

Names of the Temples

Tokushima
Japanese MAP of Tokushima

Nr. 01 . Oyamadera . Daisanji . 大山寺
Nr. 02 . Jigenji . 慈眼寺
and ... Nezumi Fudo . 鼠不動 . Mouse Fudo
03 . Saimyo-Ji (Saimyooji) . 最明寺
Nr. 04 . Hashikuraji . 箸蔵寺
Nr. 05 . Mitsugenji . 蜜厳寺

Nr. 06 . Fudo-In . 不動院
Nr. 07 . Fukusei-Ji . 福生寺
Nr. 08 . Chozen-Ji (Choozenji) . 長善寺
Nr. 09 . Oshaku-Ji (Ooshakuji) . 寶積寺
Nr. 10 . Tozen-Ji (Toozenji) . 東禅寺

Nr. 11 . Dogaku-Ji (Doogakuji) . 童学寺
Nr. 12 . Konji-Ji . 建冶寺
Nr. 13 . Mitsugenji . 蜜厳寺
Nr. 14 . Shoko-Ji (Shookooji) . 正光寺

Kochi
Japanese MAP of Kochi

Nr. 15 . Gokuraku-Ji . 極楽寺
Nr. 16 . Gokuraku-Ji . 極楽寺
Nr. 17 . Soan-Ji (Sooanji) 宗安寺

Ehime
Japanese MAP of Ehime

Nr. 18 . Jodo-Ji (Joodoji) . 浄土寺
Nr. 19 . Hoju-Ji (Hoojuji) . 宝寿寺
Nr. 20 . Korin-Ji (Koorinji) . 光林寺

Nr. 21 . Mangan-Ji . 満願寺
Nr. 22 . Koryu-Ji (Kooryuuji) . 興隆寺
Nr. 23 . Gokuraku-Ji . 極楽寺
Nr. 24 . Ryutoku-Ji (Ryuutoku ji). 隆徳寺
Nr. 25 . Horitsu-Ji (Hooritsu ji) . 法律寺

Nr. 26 . Senryu-Ji (Senryuu ji) 仙龍寺
Nr. 27 . Jofuku-Ji (Joofukuji) . 常福寺

Kagawa
Japanese MAP of Kagawa

Nr. 28 . Hagiwara Ji . 萩原寺
Nr. 29 . Myo-O Ji . 明王寺
Nr. 30 . Myo-on ji (Myoo-onji) . 妙音寺
Nr. 31 . Kaigan-Ji . 海岸寺
Nr. 32 . Tenpuku-Ji . 天福寺
Nr. 33 . Jodo-Ji (Joodoji) . 浄土寺
Nr. 34 . Jinno-Ji (Jinnooji) . 神応寺
Nr. 35 . Myo-O In . 明王院
Nr. 36 . Shodai-Ji (Shoodaiji) . 聖代寺

External Japanese LINKs
Shikoku Fudo Henro

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The 36 Attendants of Fudo Myo-O
Sanjuuroku Dooji 三十六童子（さんじゅうろくどうじ）
不動明王の眷属。
messengers, acolytes of Fudo Myo-O (Fudô Myôô)

Each of the temples is dedicated to one of these attendants.
See each temple for a picture of the attendant doji.

01 Kongara 矜迦羅童子（こんがらどうじ）、
02 Seitaka 制迦童子（せいたかどうじ）

03 Fudoo-E 不動恵童子（ふどうえどうじ）、04 Koomyoo 光網勝童子（こうもうしょうどうじ）、

05 Mukukoo 無垢光童子（むくこうどうじ）、06 Keishini 計子童子（けいしにどうじ）、07 Chiedoo 智慧幢童子（ちえどうどうじ）、08 Shitara 質多羅童子（しつたらどうじ）、09 Shoojookoo 召請光童子（しょうじょうこうどうじ）、

10 Fushigi 不思議童子（ふしぎどうじ, 11 Ratara 多羅童子（らたらどうじ）、12 Harahara 波羅波羅童子（はらはらどうじ）、13 Ikeira 伊醯羅童子（いけいらどうじ）、14 Shishikoo 師子光童子（ししこうどうじ）、

15 Shishi-E (Shishie)師子慧童子（ししえどうじ）、16 Abarati 阿婆羅底童子（あばらていどうじ）、17 Jikenba 持堅婆童子（じけんばどうじ）、18 Rishabi 利車毘童子（りしゃびどうじ）、19 Hokyo Go (Hookyogo) 法挾護童子（ほうきょうごどうじ）

20 Indara 因陀羅童子（いんだらどうじ）、21 大光明童子（だいこうみょうどうじ）、22 Shokomyo (Shookoomyoo) 小光明童子（しょうこうみょうどうじ）、23 Busshu Go (Busshuu Go) 仏守護童子（ぶっしゅごどうじ）、24 Hoshu Go (Hooshuu Go) 法守護童子（ほうしゅごどうじ）、

25 Soshugo (Sooshuu Go) 僧守護童子（そうしゅごどうじ）、26 Kongo-Go (Kongoo go)金剛護童子（こんごうごどうじ）、27 Kokugo (Kokuu go) 虚空護童子（こくうごどうじ）、28 Kokuuzoo 虚空蔵童子（こくうぞうどうじ）、29 Hoozoo 宝蔵護童子（ほうぞうごどうじ）、

30 Kisshoomyoo 吉祥妙童子（きっしょうみょうどうじ）、31 Kaikoo-E 戒光慧童子（かいこうえどうじ）、32 Myookoozoo 妙光蔵童子（みょうこうぞうどうじ）、33 Fuko O (Fukoo oo) 普光王童子（ふこうおうどうじ）、34 Zennishi 善師童子（ぜんにしどうじ）、35 Harika 波利迦童子（はりかどうじ）、36 Ubakei 烏婆計童子（うばけいどうじ）

amongst them the Eight great
douji
Ekoo Doji 慧光童子
Eki Doji 慧喜童子
Anokudatsu/Anokuta Doji 阿耨達童子
Shitoku Doji 指徳童子
Ukubaga Doji 烏倶婆か童子 / 烏倶婆我童子
Shoojoo Biku 清浄比丘
Kongara doji 矜羯羅童子
Seitaka doji 制叱迦童子

Japanese LINKS

Statues of the 36 attendants

Stone memorials of 36 Attendants

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Names of these Doji and possible meaning of the Japanese

多分そうであろうと言う意味で掲載しました

☆眷属とは随順する者をいう。お不動様の働きや功徳を表わしたもの

矜羯羅童子こんがらどうじ
お不動様に従い　命ぜられた事を何でもする　お不動様の慈悲の心の働きをする　智慧の徳を司る

制托迦童子せいたかどうじ
お不動様に従い　命ぜられた事は何でする　お不動様の方便の心の働きをする　福徳の徳を司る

不動恵童子　ふどうえどうじ
真実をありのままに見ることの出来る　揺るぎない智慧の働き

光網勝童子こうもうしょうどうじ
勝れた智慧の光を照らす

無垢光童子むくこうどうじ
穢れのない清浄な光明を照らす

計子爾童子けいしにどうじ
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智慧幢童子ちえどうどうじ
智慧の働き

質多羅童子しつたらどうじ
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召請光童子ちょうしょうこうどうじ
衆生を招き寄せる光明を照らす

不思議童子ふしぎどうじ
一切の邪念をなくした心

羅多羅童子らたらどうじ
(多くの衆生を救済する）

波羅波羅童子はらはらどうじ
(波羅蜜のことと思います）

伊醯羅童子いけらどうじ
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師子光童子ししこうどうじ
仏・菩薩は一切、恐れるものがない

師子慧童子ししえどうじ
仏・菩薩は一切、恐れるものがないという智慧

阿婆羅底童子あばらちどうじ
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持堅婆童子じけんばどうじ
しっかりと学びそれを保つ

利車毘童子りしゃびどうじ
人のために尽くす

法挟護童子ほうきょうごどうじ
法の側にいて法を護る

因陀羅童子いんだらどうじ
因陀羅は帝釈天のこと Taishakuten

大光明童子だいこうみょうどうじ
大乗の智慧

小光明童子しょうこうみょうどうじ
小乗の智慧

佛守護童子ぶっしゅごどうじ
仏を守護する

法守護童子ほうしゅごどうじ
法を守護する

僧守護童子そうしゅごどうじ
僧侶を守護する

金剛護童子こんごうごどうじ
揺らぐことのない堅い意思を護る

虚空護童子こくうごどうじ
他のものに礙げられないように護る

虚空蔵童子こくうぞうどうじ
無限の慈悲を現す

宝蔵護童子ほうぞうごどうじ
教えの蔵を護る

吉祥妙童子きっしょうみょうどうじ
最高なる心の安らぎ

戒光慧童子かいこうえどうじ
戒を守る智慧

妙空蔵童子みょうくぞうどうじ
最高の空を貯蔵している

普香王童子ふこうおうどうじ
普く香（教え）を広く行き渡らせる

善爾師童子ぜんにしどうじ
正しいものを求める

波利迦童子はりかどうじ
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烏婆計童子うばけいどうじ

source : 　jason 666

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関東三十六不動霊場
Fudo Pilgrimage in Bando (Kanto Area)
BANDO : Pilgrimages to 36 Fudo Temples

近畿三十六不動尊霊場
Fudo Pilgrimage in Kinki (Central Japan)
KINKI : Pilgrimages to 36 Fudo Temples

................ More Fudo Pilgrimages

北海道三十六不動尊霊場 Hokkaido
東北三十六不動尊霊場 Tohoku
会津五色不動尊霊場 Aizu
北関東三十六不動尊霊場 North Kanto
関東三十六不動尊霊場 Kanto
板東三十六不動尊霊場 Kanto
五色（東都五眼） Goshiki
武相不動尊霊場 Musashino
北陸三十六不動尊霊場 Hokuriku
東海三十六不動尊霊場 Tokai
遠州八大不動 Enshu
三河三不動尊霊場 Mikawa
近畿三十六不動尊霊場 Kinki
四国三十六不動尊霊場 Shikoku
九州三十六不動尊霊場 Kyushu
source .. jp_teiou/suushi2

Yamaguchi Fudo Pilgrimage to 18 Temples ... 十八不動三十六童子霊場山口県

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Shikoku Fudo 01

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Fudo Pilgrims in Shikoku

Temple Nr. 01 . Oyamadera (Ooyamadera) .
Daisanji . 大山寺

第1番仏王山大山寺真言宗醍醐派
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The main halls are in a deep forest and an Inner Sanctuary still further up the steep mountain.

Stamp of the temple
The main statue is a Kannon with 1000 Arms.

On the first Sunday in January the annual festival of "Strong men and Power Rice Cakes", chikara mochi 力餅 is celebrated. People have to carry the heavy rice cakes, which have been dedicated to Kannon during the New Year celebrations, in the temple garden and the one who can carry it the longest wins.
Men carry 169 kg, women 50 kg, first graders 45 kilo and small children 10 kg.

This festival is in memory of Lord Shichijoo Kanenaka 七条兼仲（しちじょうかねなか), a strong warlord in the times of Minamoto no Yoshitsune ［1159～1189］.
See below.

"Big Mountain Fudo", Taisan Fudo 太山不動
This Fudo is also one of the "Wave-cutting", Namikiri Fudo.

Kongara Doji 矜迦羅童子

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Mantra
on barasaki tattari sowaka
おん　ばらさき　たつたり　そわか

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At this temple, the powerful Kankiten is also venerated.
This elephant deity (Ganesh in India) is rather wild and it took a Kannon with its 1000 arms to appease it.

Kankiten 歓喜天 more details

This temple is between Nr. 5 and Nr. 6 of the Shikoku Pilgrimage to 88 Temples.
It is the first of the "Extra temples".

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The BATTLE AT YASHIMA
Yashima Gassen 屋島合戦 ( やしまかっせん )

* Yashima is in the east of Takamatsu, which is one of the best-known ancient battlefields between the Heike and the Genji clans.

* The name Yashima means literally 'roof island'. Yashima, so called because of its shape like the roof of a traditional Japanese farm house, is a mesa headland jutting out into the Seto Inland Sea. But at the time when the Genpei War was fought, it was, as is implied by the name, an island separated from the mainland by the Aibikigawa River.

* The military forces of the Heikes, defeated at Ichinotani, retreated to Yashima with Emperor Antoku and set up his temporary court and their headquarters at Dannoura Inlet of Yashima. They still had powerful command of the whole Inland Sea area

* They simply expected their enemy would attack them by sea and concentrated their guard on the sea. They disposed their battle boats in the inlet and kept more than 500 boats in ambush behind a projecting land at Aji, on the other side of the inlet , now called Funakakushi, meaning 'boat hideout'. They prepared themselves thoroughly against an expected attack by the naval forces of the Genjis

* However in February 1185, the forces led by Yoshitsune outwitted them and instead of attacking them directly from the sea, crossed the sea to Awa (now Tokushima Prefecture)in no longer than six hours helped by a favorable wind. They marched all the way to Yashima by land overnight, which would have normally taken two days.

* The attack at the court from behind was so unexpected that the Heike battle boats rushed off the coast in a panic. The battle was fought not on the sea but on the coast, creating thousands of episodes including the death of Sato Tsugunobu sacrificing himself for Yoshitsune, Nasuno Yoichi's skillful shot at the fan, Yoshitsune's drop of his bow in the water and many others. Thus Yashima became one of the most colorful stages of the historic feud, leaving countless episodes.

* Yashima retains many names related to the historic battle. According to the stories, the main battlefield was the whole Dannoura area, where now stands Yashima-higashi Primary School. Visitors now find the old court site of Emperor Antoku, Tombs of Sato Tsugunobu and Kikuomaru, Rock on which Nasu　no Yoichi prayed for success of his feat, Rock on which the bestriding Yoichi shot his arrow at the fan.
The place names of Genjigamine Peak, Funakakushi, Chinoike Pond and others are reminiscent of the past.
source : www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp

Photo : www.yoshitsune.info

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鳥渡る屋島の端山にぎやかに　　
tori wataru Yashima no hayama nigiyaka ni 　　

migrating birds ...
over the hill of Yashima
it is quite bustling
Tr. Gabi Greve

Murao Ko-U 村尾公羽

野菊より霧立ちのぼる屋島かな　　
nogiku yori kiri tachinoboru Yashima kana

from the wild chrysanthemums
mist is ascending ...
Yashima Mountain
Tr. Gabi Greve

Tamura Toshiko 田村寿子
source : 　yahantei

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Namikiri Fudo Wave-cutting Fudo 波切不動尊、浪切不動明王　

Yashima and Daruma Badgers (Tanuki)

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Shikoku Fudo 02

2008-05-19T21:26:00.000-07:00

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Temple Nr. 02 . Jigenji . 慈眼寺

第2番麿日山慈眼寺高野山真言宗
徳島県阿波郡阿波町谷島 22 0883-35-3010

穴禅定の寺 Anazenjoo no Tera

The main statue is a Kannon with 11 heads.

This temple is also the "Mountain Sanctuary" of Kakurin-Ji 鶴林寺.
Kobo Daishi practised austerities here when he was 19 years old. He had a dream and found a cave nearby. To rid the cave of evil spirits he performed a fire ritual and banned the evil dragon into the walls of the cave. You can visit this cave, which is about 100 meters long, with a guide from the temple.

"Mouse Fudo", Nezumi Fudo 鼠不動

Seitaka Doji 制叱迦童子 (Cetaka)

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Mantra
on shuyo toba unbatta
おん　しゆと　とば　うんばつた

CLICK for more photos of Seitaka Doji !

This temple is also Nr. 3 on the special temples of the pilgrimage to 88 temples in Shikoku.

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Nezumi Fudo . 鼠不動 . Mouse Fudo
temple Eikyu-Ji (Eikyuuji) 永久寺 in Tokyo

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2008-05-18T21:26:00.000-07:00

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Temple Nr. 03 . Saimyo-Ji (Saimyooji) . 最明寺

第3番弥天山最明寺真言宗大覚寺
徳島県美馬郡脇町西上野 0883-52-1594

There are many graves along the approach road to this temple. The main deity in the main hall is Kannon. There is also a hall with many windows for a triad of Amida Nyorai.

Fudo for Good Luck, Kaiun Fudo 開運不動
Statue in the Fire Ritual Hall, Goma-Do 護摩堂

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Fudo-E (Fudoe) Doji 不動恵童子

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Mantra
on shumari basara dankan
おん　しゆまり　ばさら　だんかん

Stone Memorial of this Doji at Konoita san (Koo no ita)
不動恵童子の岩場, 高板山（こうのいたさん）
It is represented as a sword and a serpant. The serpant was the messenger of the mountain deity of Mount Konoita. The whole mountain area is sacred, with a Fudo Hall at its foot.

Photo : yamato.yama

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Fudo Hall at Mount Konoita 高板山不動堂
香美市物部町神池の高板山

Walking through the sacred embers, April 2007
Hiwatari Matsuri, Festival of Walking through the Fire
Performed twice a year, in spring and autumn, by the mountain ascetics of the area.
People with a pure heart will not feel the heat at their soles. People who partake do not eat meat the day before and cleanse the body with other rituals too.

This festival relates to the legend of the last days of Emperor Antoku and the Battle of Yashima (see LINK below) and has been continued since the Heian period.
source : 　www.kochinews.co.jp

The BATTLE AT YASHIMA

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2008-05-17T21:25:00.000-07:00

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Temple Nr. 04 . Hashikuraji . 箸蔵寺

第4番宝珠山箸蔵寺真言宗御室派
徳島県三好郡池田町州津字蔵谷 0883-72-0812
Ikeda, Tokushima
Hashikura-Dera, Hashikuradera

The temple is situated on Mt. Hashikura 箸蔵山, and you can get up there via Ropeway.

"Holy Fudo", Daishoo Fudo 大聖不動
大日大聖不動明王（だいにちだいしょうふどうみょうおう

Komosho (Koomooshoo) Doji 光網勝童子

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Mantra
on soba rogi batta batta sowaka
おん　そば　ろぎ　ばった　ばった　そわか

Daisho Fudo (Daishoo Fudoo) . 大聖不動明王
Holy Fudo, Incarnation of Dainichi Nyorai : 大日大聖不動明王

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2008-05-16T21:25:00.000-07:00

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Temple Nr. 05 . Mitsugonji . 蜜厳寺

第5番宝光山蜜厳寺真言宗御室派
徳島県三好郡池田町西山 0883-72-1548

This temple is located on a hill above the town of Ikeda. The temple also has a youth hostel to stay.

Fudo digging with his nails, tsumehori Fudo 爪掘不動, つめほり不動, 爪彫り不動
I could not find more about this legend, but below are two more items.
also quoted as
Tsumekage Fudo 爪影不動

Mukuko (Mukukoo) Doji 無垢光童子

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Mantra
noomaku karaban kiriku
のうまく　からばん　きりく

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Tsumehori Fudo at temple Kokawadera 粉河寺の爪彫り不動
和歌山県紀の川市粉河2787

Kokawa-dera: 3rd temple on the Saigoku Kannon pilgrimage in Western Japan.
Temple Negoro-ji and Kokawa-dera were powerful in the Kishu area, second only to the temples at Koyasan.

Temple Kokawadera and Matsuo Basho

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There is also a well said to have been dug by Kobo Daishi on the old road to Kumano.「弘法大師爪掘の井戸」

There is also a Yakushi Nyorai digging with his nails, at the temple Dainichi-Ji.
Tsumehori Yakushi
爪掘り薬師, 大日寺, 28番札所

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Shikoku Fudo 06

2008-05-15T21:24:00.000-07:00

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Temple Nr. 06 . Fudo-In . 不動院

第6番秀盤山不動院真言宗大覚寺
徳島県三好郡井川町西井川 0883-78-2917

"Pierced Fudo", Kirimomi Fudo 錐揉不動, 錐揉み不動,
きりもみ不動, 錐鑽不動
揉み錐.. momigiri, basically means "drilling into wood to make a fire".
See below.

Keishini Doji 計子爾童子

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Mantra
on kaku mari sowaka
おん　かく　まり　そわか

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The Legend of Kirimomi Fudo and Kakuban
Kogyo Daishi (Koogyoo Daishi) 興教大師

There was once saint Kakuban 覚鑁［1095～1143］, who practised at Koyasan at the temple Mitsugon-In 密厳院. He was not well liked by his fellow monks, because he was very strict and also tried to teach them about the Amida faith. Kakuban founded Shingi Shingon sub-sect, and wrote an essay about "Amida hishaku", an esoteric interpretation of the Pure Land teachings. He promoted an esoteric interpretation of teachings of the Pure Land. He believed that the central buddha of Shingon devotion, Vairocana Buddha, and Amida Buddha were one and the same and that their pure lands were also one and the same.
The monks of temple Kongobu-Ji wanted to kill him and entered his temple. When they came to the Fudo Hall, there were two identical statues of Fudo. One was the monk Kakuban hidden as this figure, and one was the Fudo statue itself. The monks shot two arrows in the knee of each statue, piercing the leg of each and saw red warm blood ran from both of them. The murderers became afraid and ran away.
Later Kakuban left Koyasan and spent the rest of his life at the temple Negoro-Ji.

Another source quotes about Saint Kakuban:

Kakuban, popularly known as Mitsugon Sonja (Venerable Mystic Glorification), was born in Fujitsu-no-sho, Hizen Province (near the present Kagoshima City), on the 17th of the 6th month, 1095. His father Isa-no-Heiji Kanemoto was a high officer in charge of a manor belonging to the Ninnaji temple, and his mother came from the Tachibana family. Born as the third of four sons, he was called Yachitose-maro.

According to the Genko-shakusho, one day when Kakuban was eight years old, a messenger of the provincial governor came to see his father to press him for payment of taxes. The messenger's attitude was rude, and the boy's father was hiding behind the screen. The boy was shocked and asked the monk who was staying at his house, "Who was that messenger?" and "Who is the highest authority in Japan?" After learning that the emperor was the highest person, he further asked the monk if there was someone superior to the emperor. The monk replied that the Buddha was the supreme authority. This incident prompted him to decide to become a Buddhist; whereupon he himself burned incense as an offering to the Buddha.

His father died when Kakuban was ten, and in 1107, at the age of 13, he went to Kyoto and became a disciple of Kanjo, the founder of the Joju-in Hall and a well-known esoteric adept. In the following year, he went to Nara to study the Kusha and Hosso teachings under Keigyo at the Kofukuji. In 1110 he returned to the Joju-in and received the ordination of a novice from Kanjo and was given the name Shogaku-bo Kakuban - "Enlightened VAM" (VAM is the mystic syllable of Mahavairocana in the Vajra-realm Mandala). After the ordination, Kanjo sent him to Nara again - this time to the Todaiji to learn the Sanron and Kegon Teachings. While studying in Nara, Kakuban had a dream in which a Shinto god urged him to go up to Mt. Koya. So he once again returned to the Ninnaji and began the preparatory practice for becoming an acarya.

In 1114, at the age of 20 Kakuban received the full ordination of a monk at the Todaiji, Nara, and then went up Mt. Koya, where he was greeted by a Nembutsu sage, Shoren of the Ojo-in. Being a devout aspirant to Amida's Pure Land, Shoren undoubtedly had a great influence on Kakuban. Kakuban learned many ritual practices under Meijaku, who was also known as an aspirant to the Pure Land through the Shingon Nembutsu. Under Meijaku's guidance, Kakuban particularly practiced the ritual called "Kokuzo gumonjiho," dedicated to Kokuzo (Akashagarbha) Bodhisattva. During his stay on Mt. Koya, until he was 27 of age, he also received the Dharma-transmission abhiseka (Denbo kanjo) as many as eight times.

In 1121 Kakuban received from Kanjo of the Ninnaji the abhiseka of the two Mandalas, the Realm of Matrix-store and the Realm of Vajra. Later he tried again and again to master the Kokuzo gumonjiho ritual, until at the ninth attempt in 1123 he attained the transcendent state, and thus spiritual awakening dawned in his mind.

In 1125 Kakuban is said to have written the Koyoshu, 3 fascicles, explaining the way of birth in Amida's Land, and sent it to his mother. In the following year, he wished to build a hall on Mt. Koya to revive the lecture-meeting of transmission of the Dharma, called "Denbo-e", which was originated by Kukai for the promotion of studies in esoteric Buddhism. Coincidentally, a large estate in Wakayama was donated to him, so he invoked Shinto gods and built there a shrine to guard the Denbo-in which was to be built on Mt. Koya. Later the Negoroji was built on this site. In 1130 Kakuban received the patronage of the Ex-emperor Toba and his sanction to build the Denbo-in on Mt. Koya. Since that temple proved to be too small, in 1131 he built the Daidenbo-in temple (Great Denbo-in). Thus he succeeded in establishing a center for the study and practice of Shingon.

Kakuban's next effort was to rehabilitate the Shingon rituals. At that time, there were two traditions of rituals in the Tomitsu (the esoteric Buddhism of Shingon as opposed to that of Tendai): the Ono and Hirosawa schools, each divided into sub-schools. Besides those, on Mt. Koya another school, called "Chuin," was founded by Meizan (1021-1106). Kakuban sought to unify them all by establishing the Denbo-in school.

English biography of the restorer of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism,
the “saint of inward concentration” Kakuban

In 1134, an imperial decree was issued to designate the Daidenbo-in and the Mitsugon-in, the latter constructed as Kakuban's residence, as temples for offering up prayers for the emperor, and Kakuban was nominated as the first zasu of the Daidenbo-in. Monks of the Kongobuji, the head temple of Mt. Koya, became angry and tried to expel Kakuban, but an Ex-emperor's decree ruled that those monks be punished. Later that year, Kakuban was additionally appointed zasu of the Kongobuji. Until that time, the zasu of the Toji temple in Kyoto had also been the zasu of the Kongobuji, and so Mt. Koya had been effectively under the jurisdiction of Toji.
Worried about further incurring the wrath of those monks who had already sought his expulsion, Kakuban finally resigned as zasu of both temples and retired to the Mitsugon-in.

Nevertheless, the antipathy of the Kongobuji monks against Kakuban was aggravated. They even took to arms and attempted to kill him. Kakuban, however, remained in the Mitsugon-in and began a discipline of silence for a thousand days. In 1139, the armed monks destroyed the Denbo-in and its sub-temples, numbering more than eighty. Kakuban fled to Negoro in Wakayama, never to return to Mt. Koya again.

He spent the rest of his life there teaching students and writing books. In 1143 when he was 49 years of age, he became ill, and later that year he passed away while sitting in the lotus posture, making the appropriate mudra, and facing towards Mahavairocana's Pure Land. He was given the posthumous title Kogyo Daishi (the Master who Revived the Teaching) by Emperor Higashiyama in 1690.

Reconciliation and conflict ensued between the Kongobuji and the Negoroji, lasting for more than a hundred years. The great master Raiyu (1226-1304) finally moved the Daidenbo-in and the Mitsugon-in to Negoro in 1288, and declared the independence of the new school, called Shingi Shingon.
source : 　Hisao Inagaki

Kirimomi Fudo from temple Negoro-Ji
Wakayama
錐もみ不動明王, 根来寺不動堂岩出市

三国一のきりもみ不動 :
Fudo unparalleled in the three countries Japan, China and India

厄除け身代わり不動尊

This is a sacred statue, who once protected Kakuban from his enemies.
It is only shown to the public for one week in November, starting from Nov. 17.
Negoro Temple is Nr. 34 on the Fudo Pilgrimage in the Kinki area.

source : kanko.wiwi.co.jp/world/english/

Japanese Reference

Kakuban, English Reference

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Shikoku Fudo 07

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Temple Nr. 07 . Fukusei-Ji . 福生寺

第7番宝生山福生寺奥の院真言宗御室派漆谷不動
徳島県三好郡三加茂町加茂山根 0883-82-2631
福生寺（ふくせいじ、ふくしょうじ）

"Laquer valley Fudo", Urushidani Fudo 漆谷不動
I could not find an explanation for this name yet.

Chiedo Doji (chiedoo dooji) 智慧幢童子

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Mantra
on sonba sanba sanban sowaka
おん　そんば　さんば　さんばんそわか

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Shikoku Fudo 08

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Temple Nr. 08 . Chozen-Ji (Choozenji) . 長善寺

第8番駅路山長善寺真言宗御室派
徳島県三好郡三加茂町中庄 0883-82-2358
This temple was founded in 808 by Kukai Kobo Daishi himself.
The statue in Main Hall is Fukuzo Bosatsu 虚空蔵菩薩.
The temple was under the protection of the Hachisuka 蜂須賀 clan of Awa, when it also served as a relais station on the road 駅路寺, providing horses and food to the travellers.
Is still very popular to this day. It has many statues of great value, most of them are now in the Nara National Museum.
There is also an Inari Shrine in the compound where people pray for good business.

Fire-preventing Fudo 除災不動
Since the Fujiwara times, this Fudo is also known for its powers to prevent diseases, especially cancer, polyps and ulcers.
Ganyoke Fudo ガン除け不動尊

Shitara (Shittara, Shitsutara) Doji 質多羅童子

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Mantra
on taramachi shittara unbatta
うん　たらまち　しつたら　うんばつた

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Shikoku Fudo 09

2008-05-12T21:22:00.000-07:00

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Temple Nr. 09 . Oshaku-Ji (Ooshakuji) . 寶積寺

第9番月光山寶積寺高野山真言宗
徳島県麻植郡山川町井上 0883-42-4331

This temple has been founded by Kukai Kobo Daishi more than 1200 years ago and is now known for its seasonal cherry blossoms and red leaves.
In march, a great Fudo Festival with fire rituals is held.

Fudo no Himatsuri 不動の火祭り
月光山明王院

Bishamonten is also venerated at this temple, together with Fudo Myo-O.

Kawada Fudo 川田不動

Temple song about this Fudo

ありがたや　高越の里の　不動尊　詣れる人を　たすけたまえや
arigata ya Koozan no sato no fudoo son
tazureru hito o tasuketamae ya
(Koozan 高越山 is a mountain beside this temple.)

Toshoko (Tooshookoo) Doji 召請光童子

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Mantra
on mari mamari shumari shiemari todomari hotta
おん　まり　ままり　しゆまり　しゑまり　とどまり　ばつた

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Shikoku Fudo 10

2008-05-11T22:21:00.000-07:00

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Temple Nr. 10 . Tozen-Ji (Toozenji) . 東禅寺

第10番摩陀山東禅寺真言宗大覚寺
徳島県名西郡石井町高川原南島 0886-74-0265

南島不動

Fushigi Doji 不思議童子

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Mantra
on rokei sowaka
おん　ろけい　そわか

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Shikoku Fudo 11

2008-05-11T21:21:00.000-07:00

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Temple Nr. 11 . Dogaku-Ji (Doogakuji) . 童学寺

第11番東明山童学寺真言宗善通寺
徳島県名西郡石井町石井城の内 605 0886-74-0138

脳天不動

There is also a 脳天大神 at Yoshino.
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/butsuyokukannon/34277486.html

Ratara Doji 羅多羅童子

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Mantra
on rata rata rama sowaka
おん　らた　らた　らま　そわか

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Fudo Pilgrims in Shikoku

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Shikoku Fudo 12

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Temple Nr. 12 . Konji-Ji . 建冶寺

第12番大龍山建冶寺東寺真言宗
徳島県徳島市入田町金冶 230 0886-44-1232 (こんじ寺)

With a waterfall, Konji no Taki 建冶の滝

Migawari Ryuu Fudo 身代瀧不動

Harahara Doji 波羅波羅童子

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Mantra
on hara jitsu bitamani antan sowaka
おん　はら　しつ　びたまに　あんをん　そわか

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Shikoku Fudo 13

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Temple Nr. 13 . Mitsugenji . 蜜厳寺

第13番降魔山蜜厳寺高野山真言宗
徳島県徳島市不動本町 1-258 0886-31-0139

新居不動

Ikeira Doji 伊醯羅童子

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Mantra
on dakini ei sowaka
おん　だぎに　ゑい　そわか

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Shikoku Fudo 14

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Temple Nr. 14 . Shoko-Ji (Shookooji) . 正光寺

第14番向栄山正光寺高野山真言宗
徳島県那賀郡相生町平野字妙見前 37 08846-2-1304

Hana Fudo 華不動

Shishiko (Shishikoo) Doji 獅子光童子

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on mari taritari sowaka
おん　まり　たりたり　そわか

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Shikoku Fudo 15

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Temple Nr. 15 . Gokuraku-Ji . 極楽寺

第15番八流山極楽寺大仏教宗波切不動
高知県安芸市赤野甲 1771 08873-5-5612

The temple is a simple structure, almost like a normal farmhouse of this area.

"Wave-cutting Fudo", Namikiri Fudo 波切不動

Shishi-E (Shishie) Doji 獅子慧童子

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Mantra
on mai tariya sowaka
おん　まい　たりや　そわか

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Namikiri Fudo . Wave-calming Fudo

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Shikoku Fudo 16

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Temple Nr. 16 . Gokuraku-Ji . 極楽寺

第16番天法山極楽寺真言宗醍醐派
高知県高知市新屋敷１-５-２０ 0888-75-2804

The Fire Ritual Hall (Goma Do 護摩堂) of this temple stands on a huge mass of boulders. It is rather small and only the head priest and a few selected members of this village can enter it for the monthly fire ritual.

Substitute Fudo, Migawari Fudo
身代不動, 身代わり不動尊

Abarati Doji 阿婆羅底童子

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Mantra
noomaku ken saku sowaka
のうまく　けん　　さくそわか

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