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ryuuzoo, ryūzō 立像 ryuzo, ritsuzo - standing statues


. zazoo 　座像 / 坐像 seated statues . 　
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Joofukuji 成福寺 Jofuku-Ji
岡山県井原市芳井町吉井2356
2356 Yoshiichō Yoshii, Ibara-shi, Okayama

The temple was founded on behaf of 聖武天皇 Shomu Tenno in 739 by 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu.
In the garden are 33 statues of Nyoirin Kannon, also made by Gyoki.
The carver of the Fudo Statue is not known, but it dates back to the late Heian or beginning of the Kamakura period. It is about 88 cm high and made from one piece of hinoki 檜 Japanese cypress.
- reference source : www.ibarakankou.jp

- HP of the temple
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. Gyooki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu .
(668-749 AD) Gyōki, Gyōgi

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A temple with the same name in Osaka

円通山成福寺は大阪府和泉市芦部町１６９ / Ashibecho, Izumi, Osaka


Belongs to the following pilgrimage
和泉西国三十三ヶ所霊場第十五番札所 Izumi Saikoku 33 Kannon Temples
- reference source : izumisaigoku.web.fc2.com/jouhukuji -

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Standing statues can be divided in various ways:

The tallest
The smallest

The way the feet are placed

Made from one piece of wood 一本造り
Made from various pieces put together (yosegi)

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The tallest 日本一の不動明王 (so far)
20 meters high (including the podestal)
日本一大きな不動明王像




source :　daizukan9.blog63.fc2.com

Isshinji 一心寺 Isshin-Ji
大分市 Oita Town, Kyushu

大分県大分市大字廻栖野塚野1305
305 Megusuno Tuskano Oita City, Oita



The temple has been founded in 1963 by priest 安部一僧正 with the sincere wish to save people.
He made the road, planted the cherry trees and eventually was able to put the statue of Fudo Myo-O here in Tsukano village. The temple grounds are among the largest in Western Japan.

The Fudo here is  初七日導師 who leads the souls of the dead on the 7th day. His fire-halo lights the way for their proceeding to cross "Kurayami Toge"くらやみ峠 , the pass of darkness.
「初七日まもるは不動尊」. The bereaved family members come her on the 7th day after a death in the family and offer candles to light the way too.

Another huge statue (17 meters) is of 薬師観音像 Yakushi Kannon
The Kannon of Medicine, holding a medicine flask 薬壺 like Yakushi Nyorai.
This refers to nr. 12 of the vows of Kannon Bosatsu:
「病のものも私の名前を聞けば患いが除かれる」

Other statues feature a nehanzo 釈迦涅槃像 of Shaka Nyorai
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Saint Kaizan Shonin 海山上人像（安部一僧正）the founder of the temple.

Nearby are the Isshinj Waterfalls 一心寺の滝 and the temple also houses the largest Buddhist bell 念佛鐘 in Japan.
The cherry blossom time is the best to visit.

- Homepage of the temple 不動尊霊山一心寺
- source : issinnji.web.fc2.com


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ryuuzou　立像 - Also read ritsuzou.
A Buddhist image which is standing, as opposed to seated (see *zazou 坐像). Most standing images stand up straight chokuritsu 直立 in a natural manner, but there are some variations.
The bronze sculptures of bodhisattvas *bosatsu 菩薩 Nikkou 日光 and Gakkou 月光 at Yakushiji 薬師寺 in Nara, for example, stand in a relaxed position with most of the weight shifted onto one leg. The straight leg with the weight is called rikkyaku 立脚, and the bent leg without the weight is called yuukyaku 遊脚.
Attendants of *Amida 阿弥陀 in the raigou composition (see *raigou-zu 来迎図) which have their knees bent forward are considered to be standing images called jiritsu 侍立. The bodhisattvas Kannon 観音 and Seishi 勢至 in the wooden Amida triad Amida sanzon 阿弥陀三尊 from Shourenji 青蓮寺 in Kumamoto prefecture (dated 1295) are the best known examples of ryuuzou.
Zaou Gongen 蔵王権現 sculpted in wood in Nyoirinji 如意輪寺 in Nara (dated 1336), has one leg raised in a stamping or running position jaritsu 邪立.
A walking image *gyouzou 行像 as typified by *kinhinzou 経行像, is also considered to be a type of ryuuzou and is contemplated during Buddhist meditation .
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. Statues in Oogi, Ōgi 仰木 Ogi, Shiga .

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Stehende Figuren (ryuuzoo)
Standfiguren sind besonders häufig.
Entweder direkt frontal (chokuryuuzoo) oder mit leicht gebogenen Hüften (hinetta koshi) oder quasi im Laufen, mit einem leicht erhobenen Fuß (yugyoozoo, kinhinzoo, gyoozoo). Durch diese Laufposition wird der Wille Buddhas darge~stellt, in die Welt zu gehen und den Menschen zu helfen. Der Oberkörper ist dabei leicht nach vorne gebeugt. Diese Form findet sich besonders bei Jizoo und Kannon Bosatsu. Erste Arten dieser Figuren kennen wir aus Thailand.
Ein Fuß stark angehoben wie beim Tanz (buseizoo) oder nach hinten gestreckt (teiji ryuuzoo) findet sich oft bei Myo-O-Statuen.

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

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. Pilgrimages to Fudo Temples 不動明王巡礼
Fudo Myo-O Junrei - Fudo Pilgrims .

. Daruma - standing statues 置物 okimono .

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Daiju-In Yamagata

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Daijuu-In 大樹院 Daiju-In

Nr. 04 上野山 - 雷不動明王 Kaminari Fudo
Daijuu-In 大樹院 Daiju-In
Yamagata 山形県 - 布施の道場 – fuse

. 東北三十六不動尊霊場
36 Fudo Temples in Tohoku . 　

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山形県山形市大字青野６４０
640 Aono, Yamagata

Aono village is situated in the Eastern corner of the Yamagata plain, extending South from 大岡山 Mount Ooka. There are many fruit tree plantations in the area.
In the back of the temple there are apple plantations along the mountain slopes.


- Chant of the temple
諸人に普くひかり与え給ふ　
青野にいます大きみ仏

大樹院 Daiju-In - lit. "Big Tree Temple"

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- Legend knows this:

Shoo-u Ryuu 請雨瀧 Sho-U Ryu
The Dragon God who brings rain

請雨瀧不動尊 Sho-U-Ryu Fudo
When Kobo Daishi Kukai left Mount Yudonosan 湯殿山 after founding a temple there, he came to the village 最上荘大早魃. People asked him to pray for some rain, so Kobo Daishi bowed to the direction of the Dragon (tatsumi 辰巳 - south-east).
Soon "Thunder Fudo" appeared and it began to rain large drops in the plain.
Kobo Daishi then asked the farmers to pray to this deity.


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- - - - - Homepage of the temple
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There is another "Kaminari Thunder Fudo" 雷不動 along the Shikoku Pilgrimage
. Joodoo-Ji 浄土寺 Jodo-Ji - Nr. 33 .
請雨瀧不動尊


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. Pilgrimages to Fudo Temples 不動明王巡礼
Fudo Myo-O Junrei - Introduction . 　

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


. Japanese Temples - ABC list - .


. 東北三十六不動尊霊場
36 Fudo Temples in Tohoku . 　

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forehead wrinkles

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Wrinkles on his forehead －不動明王

19 Characteristic Signs of Fudo Myo-O
不動十九観 / 不動十九相観

7 The wrinkles on his forehead look like water waves.
額に水波（すいは）のようなしわ (皺) がある suiha 水波相

. 19 Characteristic Signs of Fudo Myo-O . 　
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- source : matsumoto.nagano.jp

Ootokuji 王徳寺 Otoku-Ji
9 Chome-10-1 Kotobukikita, Matsumoto, Nagano

信州中山疫神除不動尊
Fudo to drive out the Deities of Illness (疫神 ekijin) in the mountains of Shinshu
Made in 1499.
Revered by Ogasawara Sadayoshi 小笠原貞慶 (1546 - 1595).

小笠原氏の帰依厚く、特に小笠原貞慶は開運不動として尊崇したといわれています.
大盤石に坐した忿怒のお不動さま
from Matsumoto, Nagano 松本

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- source : www.biwako-visitors.jp
Statue from Iwamasan Shoobooji 岩間山正法寺 Shobo-Ji
from the Heian period, about 97 cm high
滋賀県大津市石山内畑町82 - Shiga, Otsu


. Shoobooji 正法寺 Shobo-Ji .
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checking the mirror - the wrinkles of Fudo Myo-O

. Gabi Greve, Haiku 2007 .


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. Pilgrimages to Fudo Temples 不動明王巡礼
Fudo Myo-O Junrei - Fudo Pilgrims .


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The History and Significance of the God Fudo Myoo

By: Lian Slayford-Wei

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The mythology of Japan is somewhat unique to the absorption of Buddhism around the sixth century CE when it was introduced from China. At this time, Shinto was the primary religion but Buddhism was worshipped alongside Shintoism and eventually the two religions had a deep impact on the deities that were worshipped. Indeed, for scholars it can be somewhat difficult to determine whether some deities originally belonged to Shintoism or Buddhism.

Fudo-Myoo is the most important of the five great Japanese myoos; these are the equivalent of Indian Buddhism's vidyarajas, terrifying emanations of the five 'Great Buddhas of Wisdom'. In this role then, Fudo-myoo corresponds to the Buddha Dainichi-Nyorai and he was seen as the incarnation of this Indian Buddha. In this we can see the impact of Indian Buddhism on Japanese mythology.

Fudo-myoo was depicted as a terrifying face, which was half concealed by long hair. He is popularly portrayed with his feet standing apart, the left slightly in front of the right, and one hip higher than the other. In his right hand he holds a sword or ken. His face is characterized by the tenchi-gan arrangement of the teeth and eyes: the right eye is open and swollen, looking straight ahead, with the bottom right tooth pointing up; the left eye is downcast and narrowed while the top left tooth projects downward. Wrinkles are evident on his forehead and the hair is represented by diminutive seashell-fashioned curls.

The terrifying appearance of Fudo-myoo was believed to chase away sickness and exorcise evil spirits, especially at temples. He was extremely popular throughout the centuries with all people. One famous actor, Danjuro, revered this deity with great passion. It was written in the 1774 Yakusha zensho that "Danjuro I prayed to the Fudo at Narita temple and was blessed with a son, who later became Danjuro II. Because of the circumstances of his birth Danjuro II had, from his childhood days, deep faith in Fudo Myoo. Eventually he excelled and became a famous actor. The sacred mirror he presented to the temple is said to be still there.... During his lifetime he performed the Fudo role many times, always with great success. No other actor could charm audiences as he did in moments of non-acting. It was surely the power of Fudo Myoo. His eyes looked exactly like Fudo, frightening; the pupils would remain fixed for an extraordinarily long time. He was certainly inspired by the spirit of the god".

Fudo-myoo is believed to have been introduced around the ninth century CE, but made appearances in Chinese Buddhist iconography a century earlier. Here he was associated with the Chen-yen or Mi-chiao sect, which incorporated much of the magic ritual and spells of India's Tantric Buddhism. His worship in Japan took on many different forms, for example "there was a ritual in which an initiate would first purify body and spirit under a plunging waterfall, then build a fire on an altar-hearth, offer prayers, and perform austerities. Such burnt-offering ceremonies (goma) originated in India, were adopted by the Chinese, and continued by practitioners of Shingon in Japan".

- Bibliography:
Okada, Barbra Teri & Tsujimoto, Kanya (1979)
The Fudo-Myoo from the Packard Collection:
A Study during Restoration, Metropolitan Museum Journal, The Metropolitan Museum Bulletin.

- source : www.humanities360.com

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Fudo Myo-O Junrei - Fudo Pilgrims .


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Roberto Borsi

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Roberto Borsi

a modern tatoo artist

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-  Roberto online
- source : www.primordialpain.net

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. Pilgrimages to Fudo Temples 不動明王巡礼
Fudo Myo-O Junrei - Fudo Pilgrims .


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Komyo-In Yamagata

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Koomyoo-In 光明院 Komyo-In

Nr. 03 高瀧山 Koryuzan - 光明院 Komyo-In - 高瀧山不動尊 Koryuzan Fudo
Koomyoo-In 光明院 Komyo-In
Yamagata 山形県 - 布施の道場 – fuse

. 東北三十六不動尊霊場
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source :　trebor.cocolog-nifty.com

山形県天童市大字山口３１４３－１, 3143-1 Yamaguchi, Tendo, Yamagata

The town is famous for its hot springs and production of stones for shogi (将棋の駒). 95% of the shogi stones are made in Tendo.

The temple compound is located in Kaminoyama Village and revered by all people of the region.

It has been built by Saint Gyoki Bosatsu on request of 聖武天皇 Shomu Tenno.

The image of Fudo Myo-O is in the cliff behind the waterfall, where another image of Amida is also engraved.
People come here to pray.

There is also a statue of Kannon Bosatsu, carved by Gyoki Bosatsu,
Takamatsu Kannon 高松観音.
This Kannon temple is Nr. 11 in the Mogami Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon temples.
最上三十三観音霊場第十一番札所

Most of the original buildings have been victim of fires and many treasures are lost.



source :　www.dewatabi.com/murayama

The temple has been rebuilt in 1872, in a separation from the shrine and the temple, where the torii gate is still left.

- Chant of the temple
世を救う　大悲あまねき　不動尊　
焔を負へる　姿尊し
(光明院御詠歌 at Komyo-In）

高瀧の　巌にいます　み仏は　迷いある身を　救い給はむ
(奥ノ院御詠歌 at Oku no In）

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Fudo Waterfall

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- - - - - Yearly Festivals 年中行事

Takamatsu Kannon hadaka mochitsuki
高松観音裸もちつき
pounding mochi rice cakes in the nude

at the Takamatsu Kannon temple in mid-December


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Scantily clad men pound mochi rice cakes to give give thanks for a bountiful harvest and pray for health and safety in the coming year.


. WKD - Yamagata Festivals INFO .

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Shogi 将棋 "Japanese chess"

Everything in the town of Tendo relates to the pentagonal shogi pieces.

Tendo-shi shogi museum 天童市将棋資料館　
We display document about world shogi and shogi including the history of piece.



and introducing Tendo Hot Springs
- source : yamagatakanko.com


. Tendoo Shoogi 天童将棋 Tendo Shogi .

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. Kômyô-in 光明院 Komyo-In, Komyoin - France .


There are other pilgrim temples with this name in Japan.

武相不動尊二十八所 - Busoo - Buso
Musashino and Sagami - 28 pilgrim temples
07. 圓瀧山 光明院 興禅寺 善立不動尊


九州88ヶ所108霊場 Kyushu - 88 and 108 temples
24. 第 23番　光明院
59. 第 59番　光明寺

. Pilgrimages to Fudo Temples 不動明王巡礼
Fudo Myo-O Junrei - Introduction . 　

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. Gyōki, Gyoki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 Saint Gyoki .
(668 - 749)


. O-Mamori お守り　Amulets and talismans from Japan .　

. Japanese Temples - ABC list - .


. 東北三十六不動尊霊場
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Tsujimura Jusaburo

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Tsujimura Juusaburo 辻村寿三郎 Tsujimura Jusaburo

from the Tsujimura collection 辻村寿和

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2011年制作 Made in 2011
a work made on order.
この作品は、ある方に御注文をいただき制作した作品です。








- source : ameblo.jp/jusaburo




- Take a look at his website :
- source : www.jusaburo.net






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Small dolls make with Jusaburo (1999)



ISBN: 4140310979
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Jusaburo Tsujimura:
Creating Dolls that Reawaken Long Lost Memories



Jusaburo Tsujimura is a doll and puppet maker who works on every aspect of the craft, from facial expressions and costumes to the puppetry itself. He started out making kabuki props, but became interested in puppets after receiving a commission to create some for a television show. Tsujimura has developed his own unique style that combines the traditions of both Japanese and European puppet theater.
- source : www3.nhk.or.jp


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Dolls Exhibition by TSUJIMURA Jusaburo

TSUJIMURA Jusaburo, born in 1933, is not only a famous artist to make dolls but also an art director of films and theater.



This exhibition will feature about 85 dolls with the theme of Japanese famous ancient novel, Tale of Heike. His new works with images of Buddha and the twelve signs of the Chinese Zodiac will be displayed as well.
- source : www.greentour-kyoto.net/arts

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Jusaburo Tsujimura is one of most authentic doll artists in Japan. Most of his dolls are traditional Japanese in Kimono, but he also makes some western style dolles. They are so sultry as if they are really alive.
There is “Jusaburo” museum shop in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
You can learn doll making there as well. If you have any chances to visit Tokyo, it is one of the places worth to take a look at.



By the way, Jusaburo is 80 years old men still very active and energetic ! He was born in 1933. Today one of Japan’s finest doll-makers, he actively expands the scope of his art into areas such as costume design, direction, and script writing for stage and film. His performances have received high acclaim including those in America, Europe and Hong Kong.
- source : kimokame.com/kimono-fashions


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- reference : 辻村寿三郎

- reference : tsujimura jusaburo

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Shoomudoo An 聖無動庵 Shomudo-An
hermitage of the Precious Immovable Saint

The Shomudo hermitage was founded in 2005 in the Alps in France by the Venerable Kûban Jakkôin (Sylvain Guintard), as a place of ascetic practices, a place of worship and also a home from which to broadcast the teachings of the Shugendo in the West.



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SHÔMUDÔ-AN - Hermitage of Unmovable Saints
(Fudo-Jimpen-Izuna)

The hermitage of the Precious Immovable Saint (Fudo Myoo) SHOMUDO-AN was founded following the long coma of Venerable Kuban, as a sign of thanks towards the Saint Founder of Shugendo (Enno Gyoja) and of various divinities of esoteric Buddhism. The hermitage is following the miscalenious Tradition of HONZAN-SHUGEN-SHÛ congregation, the shugen Path of the Original Mountain!
The head-quarter temple the Imperial temple SHOGOIN-MONZEKI in Kyoto.

The principal deities of the hermitage are: DAINICHI NYORAI (the Buddha Maha-Vairocana); Karasawa "Sho-no-Iwaya" FUDO MYOO (the Vidyaraja Acalanantha of the cave of the celestial flute); the divine avatar IZUNA DAIGONGEN, MIROKU BOSATSU (bodhisattva Maitreya); JIMPEN DAIBOSATSU (Enno Gyoja's posthume name); SHUGYO DAISHI (master of ascetic pratices, Enno gyoja during his ascetic periode at Mt Sanjo), Senju Kannon, Akiba Daigongen, Monju Bosatsu, Fugen Bosatsu, Kongosattva, Hachiman Daibosatsu and the great Tengu.

Three of its divinities are of the "Secret Buddhas" (hibutsu) of Japan: JIMPEN DAIBOSATSU (the great bodhisattva of metamorphic transformation) main Deity of the imperial temple Shogoin in Kyoto; SHUGYO DAISHI (the great master of asceticism) of the monastery of Mount Sanjo in the Mt Omine of Japan and the very secret IZUNA DAIGONGEN: the protective divinity prayed to by General Takeda Shingen (at the time of the feudal wars in Japan, 500 years ago) and also by the majority of the native ninjas of Mount Togakushi. Cental altar deity is MIROKU Bosatsu, Maitreya bodhisttava.


Japan July 2011 Shômudô hermitage Yamabushi
and Shogoin Monzeki temple staff for Sango/Tokudo Ceremony



(Nun Jôko, Gomonshu Miyagi Tainen, Abbot Nakamura, Venerable Kûban, Yamabushi Kenban, Yamabushi Kennin, Yamabushi Seigen, Yamabushi Kena, Yamabushi Kenkaku)

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- source : www.shugendo.fr/en/historical


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Shoogo-In 聖護院門跡　
Shogo-In Monzeki - Imperial temple

15 Shogoin Nakamachi, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto
京都市左京区聖護院中町１５番地

Founded 900 years ago.
Nearby is the forest 聖護院の森 Shogo-In no Mori, where a love-suicide took place in 1744.
井筒屋伝兵衛 23 years, courtesan お俊 20 years
Now also a topic for Kabuki.
お俊 -伝兵衛 - １７３４年１１月１６日

天台の第５代座主、智證大師円珍 Enchin （814－91）が、 熊野那智の滝に一千日篭居をされた後、熊野より大峰修行を行われました。
その後大師の後を継ぎ、常光院の増誉大僧正が大峰修行を行われ、 修験僧として名をはせました。

- Homepage of the temple
- source : www.shogoin.or.jp


source :　blogs.yahoo.co.jp/borog_602


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...  Shogoin-Monzeki Temple ... The town around the temple looked different from usual. It looked crowded and the booths of the Yatsuhashi Japanese sweets lined. Junteido Temple, one of the sub-temples of Shogoin-Monzeki has an annual event called Godairiki-san which is worship for five bosatsu Buddha statues on February 23rd.



You can see a little different costume from the usual monk’s one at this temple. The costumed people are called Yamabushi, who walk, walk and strive for training in the mountain. This is one of the Buddhism training. They usually dangle the triton from their waist. Shogoin-Monzeki Temple is the head temple of Yamabushi worship.

On this day, free kasujiru miso soup with sake is served. You can enjoy an unique winter event and be warm up!
- source : www.greentour-kyoto.net



"Shogoin Yatsuhashi" main store
京都府京都市左京区 聖護院西町7



Yatsuhashi refers to 八橋検校 Yatsuhashi Kengyo (1614 - 1685). The hard bisquit has the form of a koto instrument.


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. 智證大師 Chisho Daishi Enchin Enchin 圓珍 - 円珍 .
(814 - 891)
a nephew of Kobo Daishi


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Yatsuhashi Kengyō 八橋 検校
(1614–1685) was a Japanese musician and composer from Kyoto. The name Kengyō is an honorary title given to highly skilled blind musicians.

Yatsuhashi, who was born and died in Japan, was originally a player of the shamisen, but later learned the koto from a musician of the Japanese court. Originally restricted to the court, Yatsuhashi is credited as the first musician to introduce and teach the koto to general audiences. He is thus known as the "Father of Modern Koto."

He changed the limited selection of six pieces to a brand new style of koto music which he called kumi uta. Yatsuhashi changed the Tsukushi goto tunings, which were based on tunings used in gagaku, and with this change a new style of koto was born. He adapted the Hirajoshi scale and the Insen scale for the koto, from the shamisen repertoire.

Yatsuhashi is also credited as the composer of the important koto solo piece Rokudan-no-shirabe (六段の調, Music of Six Steps), although he may not actually have composed it himself.
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門外不出の聖護院の名宝を公開

- source : www.waraku-an.com


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Nikko Hotokeiwa 日光仏岩 "Buddha rock" in Nikko
Hotoke-Iwa

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Hotoke-iwa - Buddha Crag - 開山堂仏岩
Priest Shoto 勝道上人 - Shodo Shonin (see below) passed away on March 1st of 817. He was cremated in the valley of crags, which was located near the kaizan-do hall of the founder.

A small and vermilion lacquered hall was built to enshrine Shoto. That shrine is today's Kaizan-doh hall. Wooden image of Bosatsu and seated image of Priest Shoto are enshrined in the Kaizan-doh hall. It is told that those images were made in the Muromachi period. Also, wooden images of ten pupils of Shoto are put on the right and left of the principal image. Rites of Kaizan ceremony are carried out in the hall on April 1st.

There is Gorin-to tower 五輪塔 in the place of Shoto's tomb. Three other tombs are also put there, but these are for his followers. The Gorin-toh tower stands on the back of Kaizan-doh hall.



The crag on the back of Kaizan-doh is called Hotoke-iwa, which means Buddha Crag. Rocks of the crag were like Buddha, but these collapsed during an earthquake. Today, 6 stone images of Buddha are put on hollow place, located on the back of Kaizan-doh hall.
One of the statues is Fudo Myo-O 六部天(１体は不動明王).
- source : www.nikko-jp.org/english

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Look at details of the other statues here :
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. Shoodoo Shoonin 勝道上人 Shodo Shonin .
(735 - 817) - Introduction -
started the mountain worship in Nikko

. Nikkoo Kaidoo 日光街道 Nikko Kaido Road .

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