Fudo Small Shrine

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zushi　厨子 miniatur shrine

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1　A miniature shrine in which Buddhist images or rolls of sutras kyou 経, are kept. Reliquary miniature shrines vary in shape and size. Some are free-standing square, rectangular, cylindrical or oval shaped. Others are shaped like a temple building and still others are three-sided and attached to the inside wall of the building in which it is kept. They have double-hinged doors each with a two-fold leaf or double doors.
If the shape of the reliquary for enshrining Buddhist relics *sharitou 舎利塔, suggests a pagoda *tou 塔 or *houtou 宝塔, the body is usually circular and the roof is pyramidal *hougyou yane 宝形屋根. Most miniature shrines are constructed of wood, but some are made of iron or gilt bronze.

Miniature shrines were made in the 7-8c, but became more widespread after the esoteric Buddhist sects, Tendai 天台 and Shingon 真言, were introduced from China in the 9c. Temple construction sponsored by these sects steadily increased after that time. The zushi made in miniature temple forms often provide important information about the architectural style of the period.
Example: *Tamamushi no zushi, 玉虫厨子 owned by Houryuuji 法隆寺 (mid-7c), in Nara.

2　Zushi can also refer to the small Buddhist altars found in homes. They contain images, relics, portraits of deceased family members and their posthumous names written on vertical strips of lacquered wood rendered in gold.

3　Zushi or *zushidana 厨子棚, originally meant an enclosed shelved cabinet for storing clothing, household objects and personal belongings.
- source : JAANUS



. butsudan 仏壇 Buddhist family altar .

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厨子入り不動明王 柘植材　
shrine 12 cm high / Fudo 7 cm
made from tsumi 柘 wood (old name for yamaguwa 山桑 Morus bombycis)

- source : kyokanze.ocnk.net


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mini butsudan ミニ仏壇  mini altar
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- Fudo Statues from Buddhamuseum.com:

Fudo Myo-O 不動明王　in a miniatur 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.
source : www.buddhamuseum.com

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Acala. from Tibet


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Two zushi from the museum in Swizzerland
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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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nikutsuki men 「肉付き面」こと「不動」 mask with flesh
室町～江戸時代　三井記念美術館」
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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　


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. 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



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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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Fudo Waterfalls and Haiku 　


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Tatoo teeshirt

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Tatoo teeshirt　不動明王 t シャツ　
irezumi 刺青 tatoo and Fudo

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


source : kameya shop


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- source : www.cinra.net/news/gallery

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不動明王のタトゥー（刺青）デザインまとめ design matome





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- source : matome.naver.jp/odai


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- source : hocuspocustattoo.com/store
MAKOTOデザイン


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Borsi Roberto Borsi - tatoo artist


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- source : rakuten.co.jp/kuziyaku

Even a tatoo on a doll !


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Tatoo with Daruma and Fudo Myo-O 不動明王　

. Tattoo, irezumi 刺青 .


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Jun can not have a tatoo on his real leg,
but he managed to have it !!

Thanks for sharing, dear Jun san !

- source : facebook, Jun Itabashi


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Kannon for your Eyes

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Kannon for your Eyes
and Fudo Myo-O

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



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

Minami Hokkeji (Tsubosakadera 壷阪寺)
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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Fudo Myo-o to ward off all evil　不動明王


壷阪寺　Tsubosaka dera, Nara

〒635-0102 奈良県高市郡高取町壷阪3番地
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Pilgrimages in Japan - Mark Schumacher

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... ... ... Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩


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