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7/02/2015

Fudo-Do cho Kyoto

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Fudoodoochoo, Fudōdōchō 不動堂町 
FudoDo-Cho villages
不動堂村 Fudodo Mura



Some villages and streets are named after a 不動堂 Fudo Hall in the neighbourhood.

Kyoto, Miyagi, Chiba . . .
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Kyoto 京都市

Fudoodoochoo, Fudōdōchō 不動堂町
FudoDo-Cho in Shimogyo 下京区

and
Fudoochoo, Fudōchō 不動町 Fudo-Cho
in Nakagyo 中京区  


. Kyoto- hana no miyako 花の都 .  
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In Kyoto there are four towns that were newly established during the change of town names in 1966 in the area west of Kyoto Station
(Kita Fudodo-cho, Minami Fudodo-cho, Higashi Aburanokoji-cho, and Nishi Aburanokoji-cho).
(北・南不動堂町、東・西油小路町)



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明王院不動堂 Fudo-Do Myo-O-In / Meio-In
京都市下京区油小路塩小路下る南不動堂町7
Aburanokoji, Minami-Fudodo-Cho

Fudondoo Myoo-Oo In 不動堂明王院(ふどんどうみょうおういん)
Fudondo Myo-O In
京都府京都市下京区油小路塩小路下る南不動堂町7
- Kyoto Fudo-Do Machi
fudondoo ふどんどう is the local dialect for the Fudo Hall,
(Fudo No Do . . . fudondo) 不動堂 Fudo Do.



The Fudo Hall is in the compound of an Inari shrine 稲荷社.
It was founded on behalf of Emperor Uda Tenno.





稲荷社(いなりしゃ)Inari-Sha
不動堂(ふどうどう)稲荷社の南にあり Fudo-Do hall is South of the Inari Shrine.
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The main statue is
reiseki Fudo 霊石不動 spirit stone Fudo
The statue is burried deep in the ground and only a "maedachi" copy is to be seen.

In 823 Kobo Daishi Kukai built the temple Tooji 東寺 To-Ji and this Fudo Hall is in the un-auspicious North-Eastern direction of the Kimon 鬼門.
Kukai found a stone tablet in the ground and engraved Fudo Myo-O onto it. The tablet was then saved in a stone casket and sunk deep into the well to protect it from the eyes of normal people.

The temple has been protected by 宇多天皇 Uda Tenno (867 - 931).
In 899 He ordered the well to be shut for the public and gave it the name. Special rituals are performed at this well and the temple.
During the uproars in the Muromachi Period (Onin no ran 応仁の乱 1467) the temple building was lost to fire, but the stone Fudo in the well remained.
The present-day hall was built in 1764.

Emperor Uda 宇多天皇 Uda-tennō
(May 5, 867 – July 19, 931)
was the 59th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Uda's reign spanned the years from 887 through 897.
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Dooso Jinja 道祖神社 Doso Jinja
"Shrine for the Wayside Deities" (Dosojin, Dososhin)





都市下京区油小路通塩小路下る南不動堂町
Aburanokoji, Shiokoji-sagaru, Minami Fudodo-Cho


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The deity of matchmaking and marital harmony
Doso-shin (Traveler's Guardian Deity)

is usually placed between streets and villages, hence this deity’s function is protection during travel and helping to avoid evil spirits.
Doso Jinja Shrine was rebuilt during the era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (late 16th century), but originally it has a quite a long history. Here enshrines Sarutahiko no Mikoto, deity for travel and Ama no Uzume no Mikoto, deity for entertainment.
They’re a married couple deities, therefore, they have been worshiped for successful matchmaking and marital harmony. “Two figures Doso-shin”, there are many Doso-shin statues, but here is a couple statue of a man and a woman snuggled against each other, who are wearing the clothes of Heian period in front of the gate.



It is a small shrine located between the buildings near Kyoto Station. Here you can see a harmonious couple and it makes people smile when they see it.
The benefit of this shrine is for matchmaking, but if you visit with your partner, you can receive a blessing for a long and happy marriage life.
- source : eng.trip.kyoto.jp -


. 道祖神 Dosojin - Introduction .

. 道祖神 Legends about Wayside Gods .

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不動堂村屯所跡 Fudodo-Mura Tonsho
remains of military headquarters


in rememberance of the Shinsen-Gumi 新選組
Yagi House (former Shinsengumi Tonsho)




京都市下京区松明町 / Taimatsucho Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto
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. Shinsengumi 新選組 - Introduction .


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Fudocho Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto
Fudoochoo 不動町 Fudo-Cho 中京 




a machiya town house in the Fudocho district.

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Fudoodoochoo, Fudōdōchō 不動堂町 宮城県 FudoDo-Cho in Miyagi Prefecture


Toda District 遠田郡

It used to be Fudo-Do village 不動堂村 since 1889.

Founded in 1954, former 遠田郡中西部 Central-West Toda District
現在の美里町の小牛田駅周辺にあたる。 Now part of Misato Machi, 小牛田町 Gogota Cho.

遠田郡:涌谷町、北浦村、南郷村 志田郡:松山町、敷玉村


Fudodo Village is Nr. 11. - 11.不動堂村

The village office is in
宮城県遠田郡不動堂町

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Fudoodoochoo, Fudōdōchō 不動堂町 千葉県 FudoDo-Cho in Chiba Prefecture


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The 8th general of the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) Yoshimune TOKUGAWA had already ordered Aoki Konyo to cultivate the known sweet potato as an emergency crop at the famine in West Japan, and make trial pieces in the Koishikawa Medicine Garden (Koishikawa Botanical Gardens), Makuwari-mura village in Chiba District of Shimousa Province (present Makuhari, Hanamigawa-ku Ward, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture), and
Fudodo Village in Yamabe County of Kazusa Province (present Kujukuri-cho, Sanbu-gun, Chiba Prefecture).

上総国山辺郡不動堂村(現在の千葉県山武郡九十九里町)
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青木昆陽 不動堂甘薯試作地
Aoki Konyo Fudodo Kansho Shisakuchi
Memorial stone at the place where he planted the first sweet potatoes.


source : www.pref.chiba.lg.jp/kyouiku


Aoki Konyoo 青木昆陽 (1698 - 1769)
. "Doctor Sweet Potato", 'Master Sweet Potato' - Introduction .


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



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9/11/2014

Ogi Shiga

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Statues in Oogi, Ōgi 仰木 Ogi

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at Kiyomizu Waterfall 清水の滝







The Kurikara sword

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This Fudo has lost his sword.


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at temple Kenryu-Ji


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Fudo Myo-O Junrei - Fudo Pilgrims .



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8/22/2014

Shomudo-An France

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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

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



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2/27/2007

Pilgrimage 18 Shingon Temples

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Pilgrimage to 18 Shingon Temples

The 18 Head Temples of Shingon School have a very long history.

Kobo Daishi (Kukai) established most of these Temples to train his disciples and Shingon priests. Some Temples were built to conduct prayer services for the country and its people to create peace and harmony. Numerous Emperors became priests after they retired their thrones and became the head of these Temples in Kyoto. Each of these 18 Temples represents a profound teaching of the Shingon tradition. By visiting them, we open to the opportunity of understanding these teachings and implementing them into our practice and our daily lives.

Location:
The 18 Temples are located in Kansai, the western region, Japan and stand within a 1,360 kilometers stretch (850 miles). Eight Temples are in Kyoto, 4 in Nara, 3 in Hyogo, 2 in Wakayama and 1 in Kagawa Prefecture.
It takes 50 days by foot and at least 5 days by bus.

No. 1 ZENTSUJI TEMPLE
No. 2 SUMADERA TEMPLE . Sumadera 須磨寺 .
No. 3 SEICHOJI TEMPLE
No. 4 NAKAYAMADERA
No. 5 DAIKAKUJI TEMPLE
No. 6 NINNAJI TEMPLE
No. 7 CHISHAKUIN TEMPLE
No. 8 SENNYUJI TEMPLE

No. 9 TOJI TEMPLE (KYO O GOKOKU JI)
..... Toji, Temple Too-Ji in Kyoto  東寺

No. 10 KAJUJI TEMPLE
No. 11 ZUISHIN IN TEMPLE
No. 12 DAIGOJI TEMPLE
No. 13 HOZANJI TEMPLE
No. 14 CHOGO SONSHI JI (SHIGISAN)
No. 15 SAIDAIJI TEMPLE
No. 16 HASEDERA TEMPLE
No. 17 NEGOROJI TEMPLE
No. 18 KONGOBUJI TEMPLE (KOYASAN)


Read the Details HERE !
18 Shingon Temple Headquarters Pilgrimage / Koyasan
© Reverend Seicho Asahi, Koyasan

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No. 13 . Hōzan-ji 宝山寺 / 寳山寺 Hozan-Ji .
奈良県生駒市門前町1-1 - 1-1 Monzenchō, Ikoma-shi, Nara


source : Thierry Mollandin - facebook -

This temple is officially located in Nara, but many people from Osaka come here to pray and enjoy the vista too.

生駒不動明王 Ikoma Fudo Myo-O
生駒聖天 Ikoma Shoten

. Fudō Myō-ō, Fudoo Myoo-Oo 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O
Acala Vidyârâja – Vidyaraja – Fudo Myoo .



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3/08/2006

Fudo at Koyasan


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Fudo Myo-O at Mt. Koya 高野山

(Koyasan, Kooyasan, Koya-San)

- 高野山 - 和歌山 - Koyasan in Wakayama
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A Haiku Walk and Light Offerings to the Buddhas

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高野山の明王像

お不動さん」と呼ばれ親しまれる不動明王は、悪魔を降伏するために恐ろしい姿をされ、すべての障害を打ち砕き、おとなしく仏道に従わない者を無理矢理にでも導き救済するという役目をもっており、大日如来の化身としての使者というわけです。

その姿は、眼を怒らせ、右手に剣(宝剣(ほうけん))を持ち、左手に縄(羂索)を持つたいへん恐ろしい姿をしていますが、その心は人を救済しようとする厳しくもやさしい慈悲に満ちて「顔で怒って心で泣いて」という姿なのです。

不動明王の両脇に二人の童子(どうじ)を配する三尊形式の姿をよく見かけますが、この二童子は不動明王に使者として仕える八大童子(はちだいどうじ)と呼ばれる八人の童子の内の二人で、制多伽(せいたか)童子と矜羯羅(こんがら)童子です。
高野山には、鎌倉時代の有名な仏師運慶作による「八大童子(はちだいどうじ)像」(国宝)が伝わっています。



また国を護る修法の本尊として、不動明王は、降三世(ごうざんぜ)明王・軍荼利(ぐんだり)明王・大威徳明王・金剛夜叉明王を脇侍として中心に配された五大明王の主尊として祀(まつ)られる姿もよく見かけます。



不動明王は、インド・中国を経て、九世紀の初めに弘法大師によって日本に伝えられた明王で、その信仰は、特に日本で盛んになりました。曼荼羅では、胎蔵曼荼羅の持明院に不動明王の姿を見出すことができます。

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with Kongosatta to his right and Fugen Enmei Bosatsu to his left on the eastern side of the altar in the Kondo 金堂 on Koyasan 高野山.
These are reproductions as the originals from the Heian Era were lost in a fire in the mid-1920s.

- source : Tom Bennett - facebook


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Namikiri Fudo at Nan-In 南院

source : www.sea.sannet.ne.jp

The main statue is secret and only shown once a year on June 28.
The statue was carved by Kobo Daishi Kukai himself when he was in China. On his way home, when his ship encountered a severe storm, he threw the statue in the waves with the wish to apease the storm and the waves. Soon the waves became quiet and he came back safely to Japan.

A replica of this statue is here:
. Wave-calming Fudo, Namikiri Fudo, Namikiri Fudô
波切不動尊 、浪切不動明王 .


. Hibutsu 秘仏 secret statues of Fudo Myo-O .

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Fudo on the road to Oku no In 高野山奥之院







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「高野山の明王像」



高野山にはきわめて多くの明王の優れた尊像が保存されています。
明王は密教特有の尊であり、大日如来の一つの表現であります。すなわち大日如来の命を受けて忿怒の相を現わし、一切の魔障を降伏させる諸尊であり、さまざまな武器を持ち、火焔に包まれ、多面多臂で蛇や髑髏などで荘厳し、表情が恐ろしく、また怪異な姿、激しい力を表現したものが多くあります。そのうち孔雀明王は例外で、孔雀に乗る菩薩形であり初期の尊として五世紀頃その経典が成立しています。
その後七世紀以降に出現する明王は、すべて忿怒形となっています。
この念怒の形相は慈悲の現われであり、悪をこらしめるだけでなく、その救済をも含まれているのが明王の忿怒相であります。
古来いかに多くの人々がこれら明王に願をかけ、救を求めてきたことでしょう。
現実を拠りどころとなし、信仰の対象としての高野山にゆかりの数々の明王像との出合いにより、歳月を重ねた歴史の重み、信仰の実態、古色の味わい、洗練された美しさなど、拝観された方々に感動が広がりますれば幸いに存じます。

©   平成五年七月二十日 高野山霊宝館館長 山口 耕榮
http://www.reihokan.or.jp/tenrankai/exhibition/dai/dai14.htm

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More about Buddha Statues at Koyasan Museum
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