Yakushi Legends 04 Fukui to Hyogo

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from
Fukui 福井県, Gifu　岐阜県, Gunma 群馬県, Hiroshima 広島県 and Hyogo 兵庫県

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Fukui 福井県

名田庄村 Natasho

At the shrine 薬師神社 Yakushi Jinja in 蛇頭集落 Jato village people pray that 大蛇 a huge serpent will not become too wild.
In former times someone found some large blue stones, thought to be the bones of a serpent.
Around 1950 children played with these stones and eventually they got lost.

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Gifu 岐阜県

. 円空上人と小さな仏さまたち Saint Enku and the small Buddha Statues .
- 飛騨の国の正宗寺 - Temple Shoso-Ji in Hida // kamishibai 紙芝居

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益田郡 Mashita district 下呂町 Gero

Two legends about an ema 絵馬 votive tablet painted with a horse:

蚕飼薬師堂 Kogai Yakushi Hall
蚕飼薬師堂の、巨勢金岡か狩野法眼の絵馬の馬が田畑を荒らしたので、手綱を描き添えた。

And at 上原村
薬師堂の、巨勢金岡か狩野法眼の絵馬の馬が田畑を荒らしたので、手綱を描き添えた。

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多治見市 Tajimi town

Yakushi no tatari 薬師の祟り the curse of Yakushi
At the temple Gensho-Ji 元晶寺 in 小泉村根本 the hamlet Nehon of Koizumi village, there is a golden statue of Yakushi of the size 1寸8分
(1 sun 寸 is about 3 cm, 1 bu 分 is about 1/10 of a sun).
A young farmer's girl had found it along the river Kisogawa, but whereever it was kept, it brought misfortune to the people.
Finally it was therefore dedicated at the temple in Nehon 根本.

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Gunma 群馬県

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甘楽郡 Kanra district 南牧村 Nanmoku

Oonita no kamigami 大仁田の神々
天王さん、妙見さん、山の神さん、薬師さん、軍人神さん、秋葉さん、金毘羅様、石尊様の祭祀について。

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太田市 Ota

Yoneyama Yakushi 米山薬師
Once a man as large as the Daibutsu took the 米山薬師 Yakushi from Yoneyama on his back, set it up at 丸山 Maruyama, sat down at 金山 Kaneyama and washed his feet in the river 渡良瀬川 Watarasegawa.
His straw boots became the Big and Small Maruyama 大丸山 - 小丸山.

米山薬師 Yoneyama Yakushi

米山薬師、Kagoshima-ken, Aira-shi, Nabekura

米山まいり in Niigata

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多野郡 Tano district 神流町

daija 大蛇 great serpent
池の薬師に夫婦の大蛇がいて、雄が鉄砲打ちに撃ち殺された。雌の方は娘に化けてお寺に行って坊さんの話を聞き、お血脈を頂いて消えた。それからのち、その寺の坊さんが池の薬師に行って雨乞いをすると必ず雨が降る。

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Hiroshima 広島県

呉市 Kure蒲刈町 Kamagari

hi no tama 火の玉
明治３０年頃のこと。雨がしとしと降る夏の夜、薬師の方で火の玉が３つ転がっており、海岸まで行って消えた。薬師と明神を合祀したので、明神だろうと村人はいった。

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Jizo sama 地蔵様
昔、薬師の所にあった地蔵を漁師持って帰ろうとしたが、重くなって船に乗れず仕方がないので海に捨てた。ある日人が海辺を通っていると海中が光っているので近付くと地蔵があった。それを薬師に返しに行った。

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Hyogo 兵庫県

神戸市 Kobe 東灘区 Higashinada ward

Yakushi Ishi 薬師石 Yakushi Stone
Near West Hirano Village 西平野村 in the direction of Daibutsuhara 大仏原 there is an old kofun in pine grove. In the hall is a "Yakushi Stone"薬師石.
Once a carpenter 大工 wanted to build a house and this stone was in his way, so he wanted to dig it up. But things did not go so smooth. The carpenter was dead from a stomach illness withing three days.
So a statue of Yakushi Nyorai was placed before it to appease the stone.

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Raijin and Yakushi sama 雷神と薬師様
Once upon a time
the God of Lightning fell into a tree, but Yakushi got hold of him, before much damage happened.
Since that time there are no more lightning accidents in 有馬 Arima.

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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Yakushi Fukui statues

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A statue from the Kamakura period. About 80 cm high.
国分寺 Kokubun-Ji

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A statue from the Heian period. About 144 cm high.
明通寺 Myotsu-Ji

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A statue from the Heian period. About 193 cm high. Made from hinoki桧材 cypress wood.
多田寺 Tada-Ji

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A statue from the Heian period. About 142 cm high.

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A statue from the Kamakura period. About 50 cm high.
竜前寺 Ryuzen-Ji

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Sabae 鯖江市　

薬師堂古墳下新庄町
木造薬師如来坐像下新庄町　医王山薬師堂
薬師堂古樹林下新庄町　医王山薬師堂
漆製絵馬下新庄町　医王山薬師堂

- reference source :　bunkazai/siteitourokubunkazai/bunkazai.. -

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Wakasa 若狭町

A statue from the Heian period. About 158 cm high.
諦応寺 Taio-Ji

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A statue from the Heian period. About 160 cm high.
雲岳寺 Ungaku-Ji

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A statue from the Heian period. About 87 cm high.
玉泉寺 Gyokusen-Ji

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- reference source : info.pref.fukui.jp/bunka/bunkazai/sitei/itiran... -

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Fukui 福井県

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名田庄村 Natasho

At the shrine 薬師神社 Yakushi Jinja in 蛇頭集落 Jato village people pray that 大蛇 a huge serpent will not become too wild.
In former times someone found some large blue stones, thought to be the bones of a serpent.
Around 1950 children played with these stones and eventually they got lost.

- Other Yakushi Jinja 薬師神社 Shrines in Fukui:

福井県丹生郡越前町中33-10 / Nyu district, Echizen-cho

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亭の水 Chin no Mizu water at Yakushi Jinja 薬師神社
福井市高尾町 / Takao-cho, Fukui town

Near the shrine is a memorial stone for the doctor 谷野一柏 Tanino Ippaku. It has been put there by the lord 朝倉孝景 Asakura Takakage (1428 - 1481).
Chin no Mizu helps cure eye diseases. Doctor Tanino Ippaku used it to make medicine.

- reference source : playa.seesaa.net/article -

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The hot spring of あわら市 Awara features some Yakushi temples and a shrine.

田中温泉薬師神社 Tanaka Onsen Yakushi Jinja

Apart from this Yakushi Jinja, are two temples for Yakushi in the hot spring district:

舟津温泉薬師堂　Funatsu Onsen Yakushi-Do hall

二面温泉薬師堂　Futaomote Onsen Yakushi-Do hall

People come here to pray for good health, not getting ill and for a long life

Awara Onsen opened in the 16th year of Meiji (1883).
The hot-spring spa’s beginning goes back to 1883 when a farmer was digging an irrigation well in a reedy swamp, and 80-degree hot spring water with low salt content welled up. Next year in 1884, several Onsen hotels opened and attracted visitors for toji (hot spring cure).

あわら温泉春まつり　Awara Onsen Spring Festival

This is a traditional festival that’s been held from the end of the Meji period since the Onsen was founded in 1883.
The Yakushi Shrine festival is held on April 29th every year for the guardian god of Onsen.
The festival starts with a dance by Ashihara Geiko, Mikoshi portable shrines and three kinds of Dashi floats are carried around. A Doll Dashi float using the design of generals from the Warring States Period. Taiko (drum) Dashi float beats the drums. Geiko performers play splendid music in the Hanayama Dashi float, which is decorated gorgeously with cherry blossoms. A lot of vendor stalls open and visitors can enjoy the lively Onsen town.
- reference source : About Awara City -

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福井県吉田郡永平寺町松岡薬師一丁目112番 Matsuoka Yakushi, Eiheiji-cho, Yoshida-gun, Fukui
A district near the famous temple Eihei-Ji

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菖蒲沢薬師如来坐像 Shobusawa Yakushi Nyorai
At 菖蒲沢薬師堂 the Yakushi hall
Also known as one of the Four Yakushi of Tsukuba, 筑波四面薬師.
本尊の薬師如来坐像のほか，同時期の作と思われる脇侍像と十二神将の一部，そして仁王像2体が現存している。
古くから「筑波四面薬師」と呼ばれて信仰を集め，かつては大変な参拝者で賑わったといわれる。平成20年から21年にかけて修理作業の際に胎内から見つかった墨書から，貞享4年（1687）に東光寺29代目別当寛泉によって作られた像であることが判明した。
菖蒲沢
- reference source : city.ishioka.lg.jp/page... -

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Yakushi statue at the temple 妙香寺 Myoko-Ji
稲敷郡美浦村土浦
- reference source : edu.pref.ibaraki.jp/board/bunkazai... -

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延命寺の薬師如来 Enmei-Ji Yakushi Temple
茨城県坂東市岩井4365番地 Bando town
- reference source : city.bando.lg.jp/sp/page...-

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東村 Higashi

Yakushida 薬師田 / ヤクシダ "Fields of Yakushi"
Near the bus stop 釜井駅 Kanai along the national road Nr. 294 there is a 薬師堂 Yakushi-Do hall. About 3000 square meters of former field land was used, but soon people begun to get ill in the neighbourhood.
Later the land was sold and a mansion was built there

- - - - - Yakushiden / Yakushida 薬師田 as a place name in
秋田県秋田市飯島薬師田 Akita
福島県福島市在庭坂薬師田 Fukushima
小川の薬師田 Ogawa no Yakushida

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水戸市 Mito

keikeigami ケイケイ神，seki no kami 咳の神 Kami of coughing
Near the Yakushi of 台町 Daimachi there is a sanctuary for the God of Coughing. It used to be a shrine for Lord Kuruma Tsunatada, 車斯忠丹波守 (? - 1602) . He had lost a battle and tried to hide in the forest, but could not suppress his coughing, was found out and killed.
After his death, he became the local 百日咳の神 "God of the whooping cough".

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筑波郡 Tsukuba谷田部町 Yatabe

katame no sakana 片目の魚 fish with one eye
The 弁天池 Benten Pond in the village of 島名 Shimana was also called Yakushi no Ike 薬師の池 and Yakushi was venerated there.
If a person with eye disease would release a living fish in the pond, he got cured, but the fish in the pond lost one eye.

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牛久市 Ushiku

byooninda 病人田 / ビョウニンダ - byooninbatake 病人畑 "sick field"
There was a "sick field" dedicated to Yakushi at the temple 薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji. It was cursed and nobody wanted to use it for farming.
Once some young farmers decided to use it together, but soon some of their members died from mysterious accidents, so they stopped the project.

稲敷の病人田（忌地）伝説 Legend of the Byoninda of Inashiki
- reference : nichibun yokai database -

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Ishikawa 石川県

龍護寺 Ryugo-Ji
The statue is 120 cm high.
羽咋郡志賀町酒見門前67
- reference source : pref.ishikawa.lg.jp/kyoiku/bunkazai... -

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羽咋郡 Hakui district富来町 Togi

ryuutoo 龍燈 "dragon lantern"
The statue of Yakushi in the 高爪山の観音堂 Kannon Hall of Takatsumeyama was carved from some wood found on the beach.
Every year during the festival on the 18th day of the 8th lunar month, there is a strange "dragon lantern" light seen from the large tree in the compound.

. ryuutoo, ryūtō 龍燈 Ryuto, "dragon lantern" .
a light phenomenon at the Ariakekai sea in Kagoshima, Kyushu, and other areas, in the evening hours.

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輪島市 Wajima

funetogame no Yakushi 船咎め薬師 Yakushi blamed for ship traffic
The Yakushi who was responsible for safe ship traffic off the coast once caught the anger of the boatmen. So they cut off his left arm.

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. Yakushi Legends from Iwate　岩手県　－Tohoku .

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Kumedera Kume Sennin

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Kumedera 久米寺 Kume-Dera, Nara

奈良県橿原市 / Nara Prefecture, Kashihara, Kumecho, ５０２

第7番霊禅山久米寺 Kumedera
Nr. 7 of the 49-temple pilgrimage dedicated to Yakushi Nyorai.
. 西国四十九薬師巡礼 Yakushi Nyorai in Western Japan .

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ema 絵馬 votive tablet of the founder, Kume Sennin

stone statue of Kume Sennin

久米寺は、畝傍山（うねびやま）の南に位置する仁和寺（にんなじ）別院の真言宗のお寺で、橿原神宮（かしはらじんぐう）の一の鳥居を南に入ってすぐのところにあります。
久米仙人伝説（くめせんにんでんせつ）
- Homepage of the temple
- source : city.kashihara.nara.jp/kankou

Kume no Sennin 久米の仙人
The Immortal Kume used to fly around in the sky, riding on clouds. Once he saw a beautiful woman doing the washing at a river and got quite exited and involved with her.
This was the reason why he lost his 神通力 supernatural powers.
Part of this 通 power stayed deep in the mountain and became akki悪鬼 a bad demon, who was called 通鬼 Tsuki, Tsu-Oni. This wicked demon went to the village and bewitched boys, even making them ill and mentally confused.
He lived at the times of emperor 欽明天皇 Kinmei Tenno.

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Who is Kume Sennin?

..... Kume Sennin’s legend is recounted in classical works, such as Book 11:24 of Konjaku Monogotari (今昔物語集) a 12th century collection of Buddhist Parables, and Essay 8 of Tsuregurekusa (徒然草), a collection of thoughts on life by the Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenko (1283 – 1352).
The legend says
that Kume was traveling on his cloud when he suddenly noticed a young woman near a river washing her clothes. He curiously watched the woman and unexpectedly caught a glimpse of her white leg under her raised kimono.
Kume’s mind became filled with desire and he immediately lost the ability to fly. Heavy with lustful thoughts, Kume fell to the earth and crashed in front of the lady!
Smitten,
Kume chose to marry the maiden. They made love for many years and started a family. Yet one day Kume realized the error of his ways, repented and set off to achieve the ultimate goal of immortality all over again.
According to the legend,
Kume worked hard to redeem himself, regained his powers, and built (or inspired the building of) Kumedera Temple (久米寺)in Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture. This temple dates back to the time of Prince Shotoku Taishi (574 – 622 AD) and still exists today.
This tells us that the Kume legend goes back at least 1,400 years.
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A Japanese ivory netsuke 20th century, signed Keiun finely carved as Peeping Tom Sennin, the cloud dwelling spirit of Kume, 4.5 cm long.
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Kume Sennin　久米仙人 Also written 粂仙人.
A legendary immortal often depicted in Edo period painting. According to legend recorded in KONJAKU MONOGATARI 今昔物語 (vol.11), Kume Sennin studied the special practices of the immortals at Ryuumonji 龍門寺 in Nara. Having learned how to fly, he flew one day over the Yoshino 吉野 river, and spotted a young woman washing laundry in the river. At the sight of the woman's white legs, he was so struck with passion that his supernatural powers failed him and he tumbled to the ground in front of the woman. This woman became his wife. Kume Sennin was then recruited to help build the capital at Takechi 高市 and was told to move lumber with his special powers. After eight days of intense training, he obtained the protection of Buddha and regaining his supernatural powers, flew the large quantity of wood to its destination in one swoop. For this deed, he received land in Kashihara 橿原 from the emperor, and here he founded Kumedera久米寺. Pictorial representations of Kume Sennin usually depict him in the act of seeing the woman and tumbling from the sky.
A well known example is the folding screen by Soga Shouhaku 曾我蕭白 (1730-81) in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (dated 1759). In ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints Kume Sennin often appeares dressed in the garb of a Chinese sage.
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Kume Sennin on a festival float
秋の高山祭

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This pond offers stunning views of Mount Tsurugi in all season.
Tsurugidake 剱岳 - 2,999 m
富山県立山町 Tateyama, Toyama

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Kikujido Chrysanthemum Boy

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A barrel-shaped container made of chyrsanthemum and hinged at the bottom Inside is the figure of Kikujido, a sennin (immortal being) who wrote the magic characters of longevity on chrysanthemum leaves

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「不老不死の薬となって七百歳を送りぬる。」
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Kikujido is a boy who appears in the song (Noh script), Makurajido (Jido and Pillow), who remained youthful even with the passing of 700 years after writing the lines of the Lotus Sutra graciously gifted to him by the Emperor on the leaves of a chrysanthemum, when the dew drops from the chrysanthemum became an elixir for immortality.
- with photo of a festival of Kikujido Kasaboko
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菊慈童図 - the Chrysanthemum Boy
by Tsukioka Sessai (died in 1839)

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菊慈童図屏風 Kikujido Byobu portable screen

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Sennin Kinko

February 19, 2018, 5:20 pm

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春日神社 Kasuga Jinja, Aichi - 仙人の飾り瓦
愛知県高浜市春日町2丁目1番地8

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Courtesan Riding a Carp; Parody of the Immortal Qin Gao (Kinkô sennin)
見立琴高仙人
by Okumura Masanobu

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The Immortal Qin Gao, represented by Hinazuru of the Chôjiya, kamuro Tsuruji and Tsuruno (Kinkô, Chôjiya uchi Hinazuru, Tsuruji, Tsuruno),
from the series Eight Immortals in the Art of Love (Enchû hassen)
艶中八仙　琴高　丁子屋内　雛鶴　つるし　つるの
By Kitagawa Utamaro I

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Kame Sennin Turtle

February 19, 2018, 8:55 pm

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飾り瓦 roof tile from 春日神社 Kasuga Jinja
愛知県高浜市春日町

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亀仙人 Kame Sennin - "The Turtle Immortal"
Kokeshi by Usaburo 卯三郎こけし

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Kame Sennin 亀仙人 "Turtle Immortal"
Muten Roshi武天老師 Master Roshi

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Kame Sennin, the perverted martial arts master. He lives on Kame Island in the Kame House.

Like other Sennin, he lives alone except for his acquaintance, Turtle (海亀, Umigame), a slow yet honest talking sea turtle that comedically represents his Sennin familiar.
Kame Sennin
is very much a cross cultural creation. He teaches the boys martial arts in a Zen Buddhist style of self comprehension amidst physical suffering. Meanwhile, he dresses like a Daoist Taiji master when fighting or teaching. He knows Taiji Chuan and Chinese boxing styles, and helps strengthen his disciples’ ability to use Ki (Qi). On top of that, he emulates Jackie Chan as Jackie Chun, a popular Chinese martial arts film star. He’s a mix of Buddhist, Daoist, Chinese and Japanese.
Kame Sennin is an immortal.
It’s never explained exactly how he became immortal, but he is over 300 years old by the time Goku meets him as a child, and he never ages during the progression of the story.
..... Just like Kume Sennin, Kame Sennin has a magic cloud, which he calls the Kinto’un (筋斗雲), and which shares similar Kanji to the one in Journey to the West, where it’s called the “Somersault Cloud.”
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Gama Sennin Toad

February 24, 2018, 8:23 pm

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Gama Sennin, known literally as the ‘toad hermit,’ a character based on the historical civil servant and alchemist Liu Hai of 10th century China. Various accounts associate Gama with a large, three-legged toad by which he can be identified. Gama was thought to be able to release his spirit from his body, metamorphose, and fly with the aid of his magical companion. Chinese prototypes of this theme sometimes represent the immortal sitting on or resting his foot on the animal and holding a string of gold coins, with which he is supposed to have lured the toad from its hiding place in a well. ...
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- the Harvard Art Museum collection

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Photo curtesy of Tosh Beppu, October 2007

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. sennin to netsuke 仙人と根付 Netsuke of Immortals .

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Jiraiya (自来也 or 児雷也, literally "Young Thunder"),
originally known as Ogata Shuma Hiroyuki, is the toad riding character of the Japanese folklore Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari (児雷也豪傑物語, "The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya"). The tale was adapted into a 19th-century serial novel, a kabuki drama, several films, video games and a manga, and has also served as a source of influence for various other works.
In the legend, Jiraiya is a ninja who uses shapeshifting magic to morph into a gigantic toad. As the heir of a powerful clan in Kyūshū of the same name, Jiraiya fell in love with Tsunade (綱手), a beautiful young maiden who has mastered slug magic. His arch-enemy was his one-time follower Yashagorō (夜叉五郎), later known as Orochimaru (大蛇丸), a master of serpent magic (the kanji 大蛇 literally means "giant snake" or "serpent"). It was first recorded in 1806.
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The Magic Serpent (怪竜大決戦 Kairyū Daikessen)
The Mystic Dragons' Decisive Battle) is a 1966 tokusatsu kaiju/ninja fantasy film produced by Toei Company Ltd. This film is a loose retelling of the famous Japanese folktale, Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari (The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya).

Just like Toei's many superhero shows, this film is just as action-packed and colorful. And to entertain younger audiences, the hero Jiraiya and the villain Orochimaru use ninja magic to transform into daikaiju to battle each other (this was also done in the original story, even though the animals were not necessarily gigantic). Despite the many differences between this film and its source material, this has remained a cult classic.
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Princess Tsunade Hime綱手姫 is standing on a Namekuji to cross over the sea to meet her lover, Jiraiya.
. namekuji 蛞蝓 (なめくじ / ナメクジ) slug .

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Yakushi legends 06 Kagawa to Kochi

February 8, 2018, 4:48 pm

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source : ameblo.jp/kushihiko

There is another shopping street and 薬師堂 Yakushi Do Hall nearby.
「乳薬師」交流拠点に－赤門筋商店街
「赤門七佛薬師堂」 - 香川県善通寺市善通寺町

source :　www.shikoku-np.co.jp

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Kanagawa 神奈川県

日向薬師 Hinata Yakushi Temple, Isegahara
Founded in 716 by Gyoki Bosatsu.

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江ノ島 Enoshima

The 江ノ島の薬師堂 Yakushi Hall has been built by 日詰五郎俊衡 Hizume Goro Toshihira.
This Yakushi does not like dogs and cocks. If anyone would keep them as pets, the whole island would suffer. Lately a young person did not follow the old sayings and kept some, but he soon suffered great difficulties.

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川崎市 Kawasaki中原区 Nakahara

yoogooseki ヨウゴウセキ影向石 Yogoseki Stone with Yakushi Image
(Eigoseki, Yogoishi)
In the year 739 天平11年, 光明皇后 Emperess Komyo became ill. Her husband, Shomu Tenno聖武天皇 (701 – 756) had a dream one night: A monk came to his bedside and told him, the village of Tachibana in Musashi no Kuni 武蔵国橘 (now Kanagawa) there was a sacred spot with a sacred stone where people prayed to a statue of Yakushi Nyorai to be cured.
The emperor sent Saint Gyoki Bosatsu to pray there - and - the Empress was cured.
Later there were more stories about people being cured there.

One year later he ordered a temple being built there, Yoogooji 影向寺 Yogo-Ji
威徳山月光院影向寺 / 川崎市宮前区野川419 - 419 Nogawa, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki
- Homepage of the temple
- source : yougouji.org

. Empress Komyo 光明皇后 Komyo Kogo .
(701 - 760)

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Kochi 高知県 - Tosa 土佐

清滝寺 Kiyotaki-Ji
Takaoka, Tosa, Kōchi

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. O-Fudo sama from Takaoka 高岡の不動明王.
Fudo Myo-O stands next to his friend, Yakushi Nyorai.

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長岡郡 Nagaoka district西豊永村 Nishi-Toyonaga

tsue 杖 walking staff
When Gyoki Bosatsu came to the Yakushi Do Hall in Nishi-Toyonaga on his way to climb the mountain,
he planted his walking staff into the ground. It grew larger and larger into a tree and is called
sakasa sugi 逆さ杉 / 逆杉 upside-down cedar tree

. Gyooki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu .
(668 - 749)

. sakasa sugi 逆さ杉 from Aomori .
sacred to 山の神 Yamanokami and 狗賓 Guhin.

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Ninnaji Kyoto

March 1, 2018, 8:08 pm

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京都府京都市右京区御室大内33 / 33 Omuro-Ouchi, Ukyō-ku, Kyoto,

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the head temple of the Omuro school of the Shingon Sect of Buddhism. Located in western Kyoto, Japan, it was founded in AD 888 by the retired Emperor Uda. It is part of the "Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto", a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ninna-ji was founded in the early Heian period. In 886, Emperor Kōkō ordered the construction of the Nishiyama Goganji Temple to bless the nation and propagate Buddhist teachings but he did not live to see its completion. Emperor Uda saw the construction to its completion in 888 and named it "Ninna" after the regnal year of the late Emperor Kōkō's reign. From 888 to 1869 it was traditional for reigning Emperors to send a son to the temple to take over as head priest when a vacancy arose.
After retiring from his throne, Emperor Uda became the first Monzeki, or aristocratic priest, of Ninna-ji. From then on until the end of the Edo period, the temple saw a succession of head priests of imperial lineage. . . .
888 (Ninna 4, 8th month): Construction of the newly created Buddhist temple of Ninna-ji (仁和寺) was completed; and a former disciple of Kōbō Daishi was installed as the new abbot.
... Uda entered the Buddhist priesthood at age 34 in 900. Having founded the temple at Ninna-ji, Uda made it his new home after his abdication. ...
The nengo era name of Ninna (885 – 889)
. . . 　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

- March 21
Visiting three Kobo temples, san Kobo mairi 三弘法参り,
.. also : san Kooboo moode 三弘法詣で (in Kyoto, at temple Tooji on the first to third of January)
Visiting Ninna-Ji, O-Muromairi 御室参り　仁和寺
..... (Famous for its beautiful cherry blossoms, Omuro sakura .)
. Kobo Daishi 弘法大師 - kigo for late spring .

. 近畿三十六不動尊巡礼 Pilgrimage to 36 Fudo Temples in Kinki .
第14番 Nr. 14 - 仁和寺 Ninna-Ji - Kyoto

都名所図会　Kyo Meisho Zue

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shuin　朱印 book for the temple stamp

omamori お守り amulets

- Homepage of the temple
- source : www.ninnaji.jp... english

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. Onipedia 日本の鬼 The Demons of Japan .

Ninna-Ji wall paintings with Oni demons in hell

kimono with Ninna-Ji as motive

仁和寺の御室で降りぬ秋袷
Ninnaji no Omuro de orinu aki-awase

at Ninna-Ji in Omuro
they get off -
autumn kimono
Tr. Gabi Greve

Takazawa Ryooichi 高澤良一 Takazawa Ryoichi

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仁和寺の御室のさくら塩漬けに
Ninnaji no Omuro no sakura shiozuke ni

the Omuro cherry blossoms
from Ninna-Ji
as salty pickles

本田八重子 Honda Yaeko

shiozuke - sakura blossoms are pickled in salt and enjoyed as tea

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .

The horse painted on a votive tablet by 巨勢金岡 Kose no Kanaoka took off each night and devastated the nearby fields.
It could only be stopped by crushing its eyes.

. Kose Kanaoka, Kose no Kanaoka 巨勢金岡 (?802 - ?897) .
a court painter of the Heian period.

The Tengu from 愛宕山 Mount Atagosan and 比叡山 Hieizan often came to the great 六本杉 cedar tree of Ninna-Ji to rest.
Once a priest took shelter under the tree in the rain and saw two palanquins taking off in the direction of Atagosan and Hieizan. It must have been the vengeful spirits of people who died with a grudge and had become Tengu.

. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .

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仁和寺氏神社の絵馬　ema from the clan Shrine of Ninna-Ji

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

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Yakushi legends 07 Kyoto

February 9, 2018, 4:49 pm

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勝持寺 Shoo-Ji - お薬摘む薬師
(西国四十九薬師巡礼 Nr. 42)

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. Inaba Yakushi 因幡薬師 Yakushi from Inaba .
Byoodooji 平等寺 Byodo-Ji　－　五条高倉薬師堂 Gojo Takakura Yakushi Do .
Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan

. Tako Yakushi 蛸薬師 Octopus Yakushi .
Temple 永福寺 Eifuku-Ji
京都市中京区新京極蛸薬師東側町503

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kane no oto 鐘の音 the sound of the bell
Near the 火葬場 crematory there was a 薬師堂 Yakushi Do Hall. People say there were a lot of gold coins buried there. In a quiet night the sound of a bell was heard from below the Yakushi hall.

kuruma-kaeshi no O-Yakushi san 車返のお薬師さん Yakushi stopped the transport
On orders of the Kamakura government a very precious statue of Yakushi was to be brought to 奥州平泉 Hiraizumi. But on the way at 白糸 Shiraito the cr with the statue on it could not be moved any more. So the people thought that Yakushi had chosen this place for himself and built a hall there to venerate him.

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tsuchinoko hebi 槌の子蛇 hammerspawn
Hammerspawns had been sighted at various spots in Kyoto:
In Northern Kyoto, 雲ケ畑 Kumogabata at the 薬師峠 Yakushi pass, at 沢の池 Sawanoike, at 老ノ坂峠 Oinosaka Pass
. at 京都清滝不動院 Kiyotaki Fudo-In .

Yakushi Tooge 薬師峠 Yakushi Toge pass

. tsuchinoko 槌の子 hammerspawn .
a legendary snake-like cryptid from Japan

- reference : Yakushi Toge in Japan -

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亀岡市 Kameoka

Yakushido no kane 薬師堂の鐘 the bell of the Yakushi Do Hall
When villagers buried the bell of the Yakushi Do Hall at the upper waterfall of the river 蛇谷川 Jadanigawa, it begun to rain immediately and the drought was over.

Yakushi Butsuzoo 薬師,仏像
About 200 years ago, during a flooding, a buddha statue came floating down the river. People thought it was Yakushi and venerated it.
Most people in the village stayed healthy after that.

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中京区 Nakagyo

. tengu no tsume 天狗の爪 nails of a Tengu .
shown at Temple 丹州国分寺 Kokubun-Ji

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南丹市 Nantan

薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai
If people make a wish for healing at the Yakushi Do Hall at the temple 成就院 Joju-In, people hard of hearing will certainly be healed. To show their gratitude, they have to make an offering. They must find a stone with a hole, place a thread or a mizuhiki水引 ceremonial paper cord around it and offer it.

kyuuri kaji 胡瓜加持 ritual for cucumber purification, cucumber blessing
At the Yakushi Do Hall people come to get a purified cucumber, take it home and each member of the family has to take a bite. The rest will be buried under the beams of the house to prevent people from getting ill during the year.

. kyuuri fuuji きゅうり封じ / 胡瓜封じ cucumber ritual .

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与謝郡 Yosa district野田川町 Nodagawa

. muchi yakushi 鞭薬師 "whip Yakushi" .
麻呂子親王 Prince Maroko Shinno carved seven statues of Yakushi Nyorai ...

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Aichi愛知県 / 名古屋市 Nagoya熱田区 Atsuta

. 大薬師の鬼祭 "Festival of the Demons of Yakushi Nyorai" .
高蔵不動院 Takakura Fudo-In

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Shimane島根県 / 邇摩郡 Nima district

. Yakushi no men 薬師の面 mask of Yakushi .
at the tempel 山田寺 Yamadadera

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Wakayama和歌山県 / 日高郡 Hidaka districtみなべ町 Manabe

O-Ryuu Yanagi おりゅう柳 The Willow Tree O-Ryu
. Sanjusan Gendo Hall and 柳のお加持 "Rite of the Willow" .
and the legend of O-Ryu.

A willow tree from 熊野川町 Kumanogawa village had been cut down and should be shipped to Kyoto for the building of the Sanjusan Gendo Hall.
The tree was very large and could not float down the river smoothly. There appeared the spirit of a woman and helped pulling the tree downriver. But the place where the tree had been cut was now cursed
and the villagers venerated 十二薬師 12 Yakushi statues there.

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一様院 Ichiyo-In, 大宮薬師山東町16

神護寺 Jingo-Ji, 高雄山 Takao-San

教王護国寺 Kyoo-O Gokoku-Ji

来迎院 Raigo-In

三宝院 Sanbo-In, 醍醐寺 Daigo-Ji 塔頭三宝院

薬師院 Yakushi-In - 来ぬか薬師 komenuka Yakushi

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Yakushi legends 08 Mie Miyazaki Nara Niigata

February 10, 2018, 4:50 pm

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薬師如来坐像西盛寺 Nishimori-Ji
薬師三尊像（光善寺）
- reference source : bunka.pref.mie.lg.jp/rekishi... -

. Sanjusan Gendo Hall and 柳のお加持 "Rite of the Willow" .
Yooji Yakushi Doo 楊枝薬師堂 The Yakushi Hall of Yoji Village
- 浄薬寺 Joyaku-Ji

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熊野市 Kumano

. Oguri Hangan 小栗判官 .
and the Hot Spring 湯の峰温泉 Yunomine Onsen

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鈴鹿市 Suzuka

At the temple 清泉寺 Seisen-Ji in Kitabatake there is 北畑の薬師 a Yakushi statue.
people hard of hearing will certainly be healed. To show their gratitude, they have to make an offering. They must find a stone with a hole, place a thread or a mizuhiki 水引 ceremonial paper cord around it and offer it.

uma 馬 horse
At the temple 石薬師寺 Ishiyakushi-Ji (Stone Yakushi Temple) there is an ema絵馬 votive tablet of a horse. The horse came out at night and devastated the fields.
So the farmers put a stake into it to fix it and bound its legs with painted ropes.

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上野市 Ueno

hi no tama ヒノタマ ball of fire
At 治田村 Haruta village there was an ill person. The door to his sick room suddenly made a strange sound, ガタガタ gatagata, opened and a ball of fire left the room.
The ball first flew to the nearby graves of the family and then to the temple 薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji. Now the bell of the temple begun to ring.

There is also a very old Yakushi-Ji temple in
三重県伊賀市鳳凰寺245 / 245 Bōji, Iga-shi, Mie
dating back to the 白鳳時代 Hakuo period.

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Miyazaki 宮崎県

. Hokedake-Ji, Hokkedakeji 法華嶽寺 Hokedake Yakushi-Ji .
- Yakushi Nyorai　薬師如来　and Izumi Shikibu 和泉式部

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Nara 奈良県

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奈良市 Nara

chi no deru ishi 血の出る石
薬師寺の塔の礎石は血の出る石だという。石工がこっそり割ろうとしたら、石の中から真赤な血が吹き出たので慌てて逃げ帰ったが、石工は病みついて死んだという。

yonaki Jizoo 夜泣地蔵
春日神社本殿の厨子から毎夜子供の泣声がするので開けてみると、春日大明神とあがめていたのは地蔵菩薩だった。地蔵菩薩が新薬師寺に参りたいというので遷座した。

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吉野町 Yoshino

kagayaita yo na sugata no hito 輝いたような姿の人
昼間、子供たちが薬師堂に遊びに行ったら、輝くような姿の人が出てきた。そして子供たちに「お前ら、来いよ、来いよ」と言った。子供たちは怖くなり、逃げ帰った。

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Niigata 新潟県
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加茂市 Kamo town 南蒲原郡 Minami Ganbara gun

. Yoneyama Awagatake Awayakushi 米山，粟ケ岳，粟薬師 .
Awa Yakushi / 薬師岳 Mount Yakushidake

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両津市

水津が廻船で繁栄していた頃、港に碇泊していたある旅の船の薬師様が川端家へ入ることを望んでいると占いが出たので堂を建立してまつるようになったという。

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十日町市松代町

話者が嫁入り後に体を壊していたとき、実家の父が毎日薬師様を拝んでいたところ、夢枕に白い髭のお爺さんが出て「必ずよくなる」と言った。次の日、話者の父が婚家を訪ねると、その家の薬師様の掛け軸のお姿が、昨日夢で見たお爺さんと同じだった。話者はそれからよくなった。

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Yakushi legends 09 Osaka Saitama Shiga Shizuoka

February 11, 2018, 4:51 pm

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Tookooin 東光院 Toko-In - Hagi no Tera 萩の寺 Bushclover Temple
豊中市南桜塚1-12-7 // 1 Chome-12-7 Minamisakurazuka, Toyonaka-shi, Ōsaka-
第12番新西国霊場 Pilgrimage

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In 浪速の車町 Kuruma-machi, Naniwa at the 蘆池 Ashi-Ike pond a stone memorial with a figure of Yakushi had been found.
It is also known as
浪花薬師 Naniwa Yakushi or 蘆やくし Ashi-Yakushi.
Every year there was a festival in its honor.
But now the whereabouts of this Yakushi are not known any more.

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- More Yakushi Temples in Osaka

Hoounji 法雲寺 Houn-Ji
堺市美原区今井192-甲

Jigenin 慈眼院 Jigen-In
泉佐野市日根野626

Nichira Zenji 日羅禅寺 Nichira Zenji
八尾市南木の本615

Yachuji 野中寺 Yachu-Ji
羽曳野市野々上5-9-24

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Saitama 埼玉県

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宮代町 Miyashiro

migawari Yakushi 身代わり薬師 Yakushi as personal substiture
When a samurai from Aizu, called Ito 伊藤修理太夫光家 passed here, he was attacked from bandits 野武士. But Yakushi jumped in his place and the samurai was saved.

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所沢市 Tokorozawa

nezumi Yakushi ねずみ薬師 Yakushi and the mice
If the farmers prayed hard to Yakushi, he would prevent their estate from the damage of mice eating their rice harvest.

There is a mountain called
Nezumi Yakushi ねずみ薬師 in Niigata.

source :　takasei.sakura.ne.jp/-nezumiyakusi

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Shiga 滋賀県

In Shigaraki town there is a 不動寺 Fudo Temple. Once a man went missing there and people got out with drums and bells to look for him. They found him dead leaning on a tree on the Ise Road near the Ishi Yakushi stone 石薬師伊勢道.
This was the wrongdoing of a 天狗 Tengu for sure.

. Ishi Yakushi 石薬師 and Yakushi Ishi 薬師石 Rock and Stone .

. Yakushi Nyorai and Tengu Legends　薬師と天狗伝説 .

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Shizuoka 静岡県
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富士吉田市 Fujiyoshida

Yakushi no tatari 薬師のたたり the curse of Yakushi
Once upon a time, a member of the 加賀美イツケ Kagami clan had an eye disease. In a dream he was told that he should go to lake 明見湖 Asumiko (in nearby Yamanashi) and look for a statue of Yakushi Nyoarai to venerate. He did so and his eyes were healed.
But later through a curse of the Yakushi he was forced to bring it to the temple 常在寺 Jozai-Ji in 小立村 Kodachi-mura.

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庵原郡 Ibara district両河内村 Ryogochi-mura

Once Tokugawa Ieyasu came to 大平の薬師様 Yakushi Sama in Ohira village and prayed, and soon his eyes were healed.
This Yakushi once wanted to be venerated by many more people and came all the way to 吉原 Yoshiwara Town in Eastern Shizuoka. But there he could not move on any more.
So it seems Yakushi did not want to go to Ohira after all.
Ohira is a small village near Numazu - 静岡県沼津市大平.

. Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 (1543 - 1616) .

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費長房　Hichobo (Fei Chang Fang)

He is riding a crane, holding a sutra scroll in his hands.
He was the disciple of the Sennin 壺公（ごこう) Goko. (ここう Koko).
He tried to become a sennin but could not pass the exam of his master. Nevertheless he became an immortal.
Some sources say he was eventually killed by 鬼神 a Demon Deity.
鶴に乗る仙人は鶴仙人といわれるが、費長房の他にも「王子喬（おうしきょう）」や「黄鶴楼（こうかくろう）」など、何人かいたようだ。
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Sennin 壺公（ごこう) Goko. (壺公ここう Koko) "Honorable Jar"
Late Han period.
Koko Sennin was selling medicine in the market of 汝南の市場 Jonan. He had a 壺 jar hanging from his waist, and in the evening slipped into the jar and spent the night. He had lived in 天界 the heavenly realm, but was banished because he had commited a crime.
The warden of the market place, 費長房 Hichobo, was fascinated by him.
The special realm of Koko is called
kochuuten 壺中天 / こちゅうてん Kochuten, "Heaven in a Jar"
Often a name for a restaurant.

Some illustrations snow Goko slipping into a gourd
hyootan sennin 瓢箪仙人 "Gourd Immortal"

... . in ancient China, when gourds served the purpose of carrying water on long embarkments. In addition to simply water, medicine was also stored in the gourds; this is where the image of it as a “symbol of health, vitality and immortality ” was derived.
mubyootan六瓢箪 "six gourds", a pun with mubyoo無病 "no illness"
and thus a specially auspicious symbol.
. hyootan 瓢箪 Hyotan gourd art motives .

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kookaku sennin 控鶴仙人 "Sennin riding a crane"

名草神社 Nagusa Jinja
Hyogo / 1755-6 Yokacho Ishihara, Yabu, Hyōgo

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北野天満宮 Kitano Tenmangu

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source : watanabe san facebook

飾り瓦 roof tile from 石作神社 Ishizukuri Jinja, Aichi
愛知県あま市甚目寺石作郷61

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Tsuru Sennin 亀仙人 the modern "Crane Immortal"

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Master Shen is the Crane Hermit (鶴仙人 Tsurusen'nin), Minister Shen, master of the Crane School and Mercenary Tao's older brother. Whilst they both trained at the Mutaito Training Academy, a rivalry quickly grew between Shen and Master Roshi. Master Shen and Mercenary Tao, likewise, began to fight over the smallest things. Eventually, a simple spilled bowl of rice was enough to break the brothers apart.
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Das Netsuke zeigt uns ein auf einer rechteckigen Siegelbasis ruhendes Rind, auf dem ein bärtiger Weiser gemütlich sitzt und ein langes Blasinstrument an seine Lippen hält. Das Sitzen auf einem Rind darzustellen, wobei sich meistens eine Union in meditativer Versunkenheit vorfindet, ist sehr beliebt und man kann den einfachen Bokudo genauso antreffen, wie den legendären Laoze, den Begründer des chinesischen Daoismus. Dieser war für den aus kaiserlichem Geblüt stammenden Oshikyo (chin. Wangze Kao) ein leuchtendes Vorbild, das ihn zu einem Leben als einsamer Eremit veranlaßte. Zusammen mit der Fee Fukyuko lebte er dreißig Jahre im Heshe Gebirge. Das alte Netsuke mit sehr schöner goldbrauner Patina zeigt ihn mit einer schon etwas abgegriffenen Haube und einem faltenreichen Umhang, die Schalmei schön angelegt und in einer Linie mit dem Rindsschweif, das Tier lauscht ebenfalls dem sphärischen Wohlklang.
- source : Wolfmar Zacken -

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source : artsy.net/artwork/suzuki-harunobu...

Parodies of Hichobo and Urashima Taro
Suzuki Harunobu

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. 亀仙人 Kame Sennin - "The Turtle Immortal" .

. tsuru kame, tsurukame 鶴亀 Tortoise and Crane .
symbols of long life in China

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Toran Ni Sennin

February 25, 2018, 4:32 pm

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Toranni 都藍尼（とらんに）Toran-Ni - 女仙人 Toran no Ama, a female Sennin　

She is Nr. 09 :
. 日本の仙人37人 - The 37 Immortals of Japan .

The Buddhist nun Toran-Ni lived in Nara at the foot of 吉野の山 Mount Yoshino, studied Buddhism and lived for more than a few hundred years.
Mount Oominesan 大峰山 was a mountain for religious practise, but not allowed for women to climb. Even now there is 女人結界門 a limit as to how far women should climb.
Toran-Ni was not satisfied with this prohibition and one day started to climb. Immediately the weather turned bad, with thunder and lightning, making her loose her way. She also lost her walking staff 杖, which got stuck in the ground and grew to a huge tree.
Rocks where she stepped on begun to crack and tumble downhill and a pond appeared in their place.

There are other mountains in Japan claiming Toran-Ni was there, like 立山 Tateyama, 白山 Hakusan and 高野山 Koyasan.

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Toran-ni: The Old Hag Who Violated the Anti-female Cordon
The woman who is known simply as the Nun Toran (Toran-ni), a legendary person, is believed to be the sister of a minor mountain ascetic who trained with En no Gyōja (d. 701). The first literary reference to her occurs in the Honchō shinsen-den ...
"Toranni, native of Yamato province, achieved several hundred years of long life through her mystical ascetic training. Regrettably, however, her overconfidence led her to penetrate the sacred Mount Kinpusen, only to have Kongo Zao (the tutelary deity of Mt. Kinpusen), who never permits women to cross its boundary, to strike her with lightning. Toran's staff changed into a tree, the earth caved i to create a lake. She left traces of her nail marks on the mountain rock".

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Daisen Shinkō - 大仙 Mount Daisen
Beliefs and practices associated with Daisen, a mountain located in the western part of Tottori Prefecture, also known as Hōki Fuji. It consists of a number of peaks, including Misen, Tengugamine and Sankomine. The highest is Kengamine (1792 m.). The access route from the north starts from a settlement that has formed around the Tendai temple Daisenji. Beyond this are the inner shrine of Ōgamiyama Shrine, and the shrine dedicated to the attendant kami, Shimoyama Shrine.
Many elements connected with the view that the mountain is the Other Realm, where the spirits of the dead go, can be found in, for example, the Muromachi-period Amida Hall and the site known as Sainokawara. In the Izumokoku fudoki (post 713) the mountain is called Ōgamidake, and Yatsukamizuomitsuno no mikoto is said to have used it as a rudder when he brought in more land to extend Izumo Province (kunihiki). In the Engishiki (905-27) it appears as Ōgamiyama Shrine. Ennin's Diary (Nitto guhō junrei kōki, covering 838-47) records that Ennin made prayers here when he was embarking for China, and so its links with Tendai Buddhism were born.
It was famous as a shugen (see Shugendō) mountain in the Heian period and is mentioned in such works as the Uji shūi monogatari (ca 1190-1242), Ryōjin hishō (ca 1169), Shin sarugaku-ki (Fujiwara Akihira, 1058-65) and Hokke genki.
A shugenja called Kikō is said to have been active here in the Kamakura period. The oldest local legendary history is the Daisenji engi emaki with a colophon dated 1398 (the original was destroyed in a fire in 1928). It relates that a great rock fell from the southeastern side of the Third Palace of the Tushita heaven and split into three - Kumano, Kinpusen, and Daisen. In connection with this, the "mountain" name of Daisenji is Kakubansan (lit. "corner of rock").
The divinities Monju (Manjushri), Kannon (Avalokiteshvara) and Jizō (Kshitigarbha) manifested themselves at the pagoda and are venerated as the Gongen of the Three Places (sansho gongen) (see gongen shinkō).

The founding legend says that a hunter from Tamatsukuri in Izumo called Yorimichi entered the mountain from the bay at Miho chasing a golden wolf. When he tried to shoot it Jizō rose out of the earth and the wolf transformed into an old nun calledToran-ni. The wolf was an incarnation of the mountain kami (yama no kami), who, as a nun, persuaded Yorimichi to seek after enlightenment, and gave him the name of Kinren to encourage him in his religious training. Thus Yorimichi is considered to be the founder of Daisen.

A special feature of the cult was its veneration of Jizō on the basis of belief in the mountain deity and the view that the mountain was the Other Realm. In the late Heian period a cult arose around the central image of Daisenji, Daisen Chimyō Gongen, identified as an avatar of Jizō.
In the Muromachi period Shimoyama Myōjin, the attendant deity (misaki kami), was venerated for its association with Daisen Chimyo Gongen, and was said to enshrine the spirits of a white fox and a shugen practitioner.
The belief spread over a wide area, on the basis of oracles (takugen) and reports of miraculous events (reigen) emphasized by yamabushi. Daisenji came under the jurisdiction of Hieizan in the Edo period. Gōen, the head priest of the temple at the beginning of the period, systematized the organization and ritual, and is therefore called the restoring patriarch.
A fief of 3000 koku was bestowed on the temple, which supported 42 subtemples. The separation of kami and Buddhist practices and worship (shinbutsu bunri) was carried out in 1875. Daisenji was abolished and the main hall of Daisen Chimyō Gongen was turned into the inner shrine of Ōkamiyama Jinja.
In 1903, the temple name of Daisenji was revived and the former Dainichi Hall was converted into the Main Hall, and remains so today. Shugen practices disappeared, but the shrine priests (jinshoku) perform the rite of mohitori, bringing down herbs and water from the summit of the mountain, which preserves elements of the former Misen zenjō, climbing to the summit of Misen, which used to be held on the fourteenth day of the sixth month.
In the Bitchū region (in present-day Okayama Prefecture), Daisen is written with the characters 大仙 rather than the usual大山; a branch shrine has been established locally and veneration rites for the dead are performed there. There remains a strong tradition of veneration of the dead also at the base of the mountain, where gongen confraternities (kō) venerate Chimyō Gongen on the 24th of February and October in order to memorialize ancestors.
Again, at the foot of the mountain, there is a strong devotion to the mountain as a protector of livestock; horse and cattle fairs used to be held in villages there every year on the twenty-fourth day of the fourth month, the day associated with the deity, which developed in the Genroku era (1688-1704) into the Bakurōza, the biggest such fair in the country.
The Daisen Kuyō Taue, a rice-planting festival, best symbolizes the beliefs surrounding Daisen as a water (suijin) and agricultural deity. Here an ox with its horns brightly decorated is led into a rice field and young women plant rice to the beat of accompanying music. This festival is still held at various places and times.
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. Yama no Kami 山の神 God of the Mountain
and his messenger, the Yamainu 山犬 Wolf .

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. Mount Daisen 大山 / 大仙 - Tottori .
Mount Daisen, which stood directly from the Sea of Japan, was regarded as one of the most important mountain for Japanese Shugendo. According to ‘Izumo Kokudo Fudoki, which was completed the edition in 733, this mountain was called ‘Ookamitake’’, literally, ‘Mountain of the great god.’

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. Zenkiboo Zenkibō 前鬼坊 Zenkibo of Mount Ōmine, Nara .
那智滝本前鬼坊 Nachi Takimoto Zenkibo / 大峰山前鬼坊 Ominesan Zenki-Bo
the husband Zenki　前鬼 and his wife Goki 後鬼 - and the priest En no Gyoja　役行者.

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Yakushi legends 10 Tochigi Tokushima Tottori

February 13, 2018, 9:35 pm

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芳賀郡 Haga 茂木町

kome-togi baa sama 米とぎ婆さま
薬師様の側に米磨ぎ婆さまがいる。「米とぎ婆さま晩方さあらさら。薬師様さあらさら。子供さろべとさあらさら。」と米を磨いている。

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鹿沼市 Kanuma

上沢氏の家の前に薬師堂がある。ここの水で目を洗うと、目の悪い人は治り、普通の人は目の病気にかからないと言われていた。今では水が入っていないという。

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鶏足寺 Keisokuk-Ji
本尊：七仏薬師 Shichibutsu Yakushi
足利市小俣町2748-1

長樂寺 Choraku-Ji
那須郡那須町寺子丙1404

医王寺 Io-Ji
足利市田中町454

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Tokushima 徳島県
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海部郡 Ama district 宍喰町 Shishikui

tanuki 狸 badger
昔、お薬師さんのお堂では、狸のいたずらで、南向きに寝ても、起きると北向きに寝ているということがよくあった。

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美馬郡 Mima district つるぎ町 Tsurugi

ikiryoo 生霊
寛文の頃、結婚の約束をしたにもかかわらず、相手が他の女と結婚して、捨てられた女が、薬師像の眼・耳・胸に釘を打ち呪った。すると、男の妻に女の生霊が憑き悩ませた。山伏が多数集まって祈り加持をしても験は無かった。僧が十念を授けると離れた。

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- 12 Yakushi Temples in Tokushima
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井戸寺 Ido-Ji
本尊：七仏薬師如来 Seven Yakushi Statues
徳島市国府町井戸北屋敷80-1

薬王寺 Yakuo-Ji
本尊：厄除薬師如来 Yakuyoke Yakushi Nyorai
海部郡美波町奥河内寺前285-1

願成寺
三好郡東みよし町昼間3004

東光寺
板野郡藍住町東中富東傍示39

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from Tottori 鳥取県　

Kurayoshi 倉吉市桜
大日寺は寺伝に承和8年（841）
慈覚大師円仁の開基、永延2年（988）恵心僧都の再興とされる。本像は、桧又は榧の一木造りで、像高152.0cm。
肉身部は黄土彩、着身部はベンガラ彩の朱衣金体を呈し、両膝に見られる同心円状の衣文にも特徴がある。丸みを帯びた大らかな作風で、平安中期～後期の造像とみられる。
一木造りの、県内に残る数少ない平安時代の仏像として、価値が高い。
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The Elder Ashioka 葦岡長者
. Yoshioka Onsen 吉岡温泉 Hot Spring .

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. Yakushi no men 薬師の面 Yakushi Nyorai mask .
and the makuragami枕神 "god of the pillow"

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hebi 蛇
子供の時に薬師寺の裏山で古い壷を見つけた。中には一匹の蛇がいて、底には漆のようなものがたまっていた。それらを持って帰り、壷は和尚さんに上げて、蛇は隣の爺さんにあげた。それから爺さんの家は目に見えて暮らしが良くなった。噂では蛇のお告げがあり、その蛇を弁天さんにお上げしたという。

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Yakushizoo 薬師像 statue of Yakushi
金屋の千賊と言われて恐れられている山賊がいた。時の中納言藤原行平卿が征討に向かったが、数年に及んでも滅ぼすことができない。行平は征討使の権を取り上げられた。行平は責を感じ、天地神明に誓い薬師如来１４体を刻み、犬山神山下の川中に投じ、ひたすら千賊の退治を願った。行平は神護により千賊を退治し、帰京した。ある日囲碁をしていると、「中納言」と呼ぶものがいる。見ると薬師如来の１体であった。

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西伯郡 Nishi Hoki gun 中山町 Nakayama village

tawara Yakushi 俵薬師 Yakushi and a bale of rice
A man always told lies and got his riches by cheating other people, even killing a blind man. One day out of his storage house with the bales of rice he had aquired there came a statue of Yakushi Nyorai.
So he finally changed his mind, cut his hair and became a monk, venerating the statue until he died.

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紙本著色俵薬師縁起絵 Shihon Chakushoku Tawara Yakushi Engi E

This paining is from the legend of the tempel Tofuku-Ji 東福寺:
Once upon a time
they found a statue of Yakushi at the beach and stuffed into a straw bale to carry it to the temple, hence the name "Straw Yakushi".
The top part shows some temples and shrines, below are farmers, fishermen and other people busy with the statue.

一宮町一宮　東福寺
- source : town.ichinomiya.chiba.jp

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東伯郡 Tohaku district琴浦町 Kotoura

向原のお寺の薬師さんは海から上がられて下市の部落に安置してあったが、病人が出たり変な夢を見たりしたことが続いたので伺ってみると、「灘の音のしない所に祀ってくれ」というので向原に祀るようになった。乳の病にあらたかであるという。

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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source : 国際日本文化研究センタ

He was a strange old man, living in the Early Heian period.
Around (859-877) he sold white chopsticks in the streets of Kyoto. He always seemed to be about 70 years. After his death his body was buried in the earth.
But a few years later people saw him, clad like a monk, reading the 法華経 Hoke-Kyo Sutra

Hakucho-o den白箸翁伝ハクチョオウデン Legend of Hakucho-O
book by 紀長谷雄 Ki no Haseo (845 – 912) , Literat of the Heian Period

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11 Sadazumi Shinno貞純親王　 (?874－916)
平安時代前期-中期,清和天皇の皇子。
母は棟貞王(むねさだおう)の娘。貞観(じょうがん)15年親王となる。中務(なかつかさ)卿,兵部(ひょうぶ)卿,上総(かずさ)・常陸(ひたち)・上野(こうずけ)の太守をつとめた。清和源氏の祖である源経基(つねもと)の父とされる。延喜(えんぎ)16年5月7日死去。
貞純親王（さだずみしんのう）は、日本の平安時代前期の皇族。清和天皇の第六皇子。母は棟貞王の娘。王子に経基王・経生王がある。桃園親王と号す。
親王任国とされる上総や常陸の太守や、中務卿・兵部卿を歴任したが、位階は四品に留まった。経基・経生の両王子が共に源姓を賜与され臣籍降下したことから、清和源氏の祖の一人となった。ただし、これについては異説があり、従来の貞純親王流とされる清和源氏は陽成天皇（親王の兄）からつながる血筋だとする説もある。また、出生年月日は貞観12年（870年）3月10日[1]、貞観16年（874年）3月23日[2]とも。
いわゆる清和源氏の出自について異説があるが、その一つに陽成源氏説がある。これは、清和源氏の祖とされた経基王が陽成天皇の皇子・元平親王の皇子ではないかとする説である。これは明治の歴史学者星野恒の唱えたもので、明治30年代に石清水八幡宮祠官田中家文書の中に源頼信が応神天皇陵に納めたとされる永承元年（1046年）告文に「先人新発其先経基其先元平親王其先陽成天皇其先清和天皇」と明記してある事を根拠としたもの。しかしこの文書は写本であり、告文の裏面に校正したと但書きがあることから信憑性が疑われている。また、告文の内容は河内石川庄の相続順序に過ぎないとする説や、12世紀はじめに書かれた「大鏡」が武家源氏を清和天皇の末としていることもあり、清和源氏が正しいとする学者が多くいる。
- reference source : wikipedia -

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. 12 Ariwara no Narihira　在原業平朝臣 .

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13 Ikoma Sennin 生馬仙人
【生馬仙人】---59代宇多天皇（在位887-897）時代。
生馬仙人は、摂津国住吉県の人なり。
河内国高安県の東山の麓なる、生馬谷の奥に住り。
宇多天皇の寛平九年、行脚の僧明達と云へる人有り。
或時此東山の絶頂に登りて、深谷を見るに、一の草庵有り。
明達奇みて、其の谷に下り行き、庵の内を見れば、顔色黄みたる人、【頭に白帽子を戴き、身に白衣を着たる】が居れり。
明達近づきて、君は誰人にて、又何の為に、此の深山の奥に、獨り住む給ふやと問ひければ、此の人答て、我は是れ生馬の仙人なり。
汝遥々ここに来たりたれば、定めて飢に及びたらむとて、瓜五つを取り出して、明達に与へ、此瓜は此の地に生ずるものなり。
之を食して、飢渇を免るべしと云へるにぞ。
明達其の好意を謝し、之れを受けて食するに、其の味の美きこと云ふばかりなし。
明達重ねて、仙人は此の地に住みて、幾歳をか経給へると問へば、仙人答へて、然ればとよ、我此の山谷に入りてより以来、未だ山を下りて麓をだに見たること無れば、幾年経たりとも知らず。
唯長生不死の道を求るのみと云へるとぞ。
明達故郷に帰りて人に語れるより、此事普く世に語り伝ふること々はなりしとなむ。
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14 Miyako no Yoshika都良香　(834 - 897)
a ninth century Japanese scholar and poet. Legends say that 100 years after he left office, he was spotted on a mountain as a hermit, his face unchanged.
... 承和元年（834年） - 元慶3年2月25日（879年3月21日））は、平安時代前期の貴族・文人。姓は宿禰のち朝臣。初名は言道。主計頭・都貞継の子。官位は従五位下・文章博士。
more and photo
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. 15 Sugawara Michizane　菅原道真 .

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16 Saga-In Kunshi嵯峨隠君子 / 嵯峨の隠君子 Saga no Inkunshi / 嵯峨天皇の隠君子
Mid-Heian period. He was the son of 醍醐天皇 Daigo Tenno
He entered priesthood as a child before becoming an adult and his hair grew white while he kept his childlike figure.

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. 日本の仙人37人 - The 37 Immortals of Japan .
Here the most important ones are introduced.
There are 僧侶 18 priests, 8 仙人 sennin (including 3 仏仙 like Kume Sennin).
The other 11 are humans.
聖徳太子 Shotoku Taishi and 役ノ行者 En no Gyoja have a special relationship to Buddhism.

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- reference source : toki.moo.jp/inaka-jo/05sennin... -

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Hotokegasen仏ヶ仙（ほとけがせん）736 m
peak in the Hiruzen mountain range, Okayama 蒜山仏ヶ山

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10 善仲 Zenchu and 11 善算 Zensan

They were twins, born in 708 in the Nara period. They were both priests.
Their father was 藤原致房 Fujiwara no Munefusa.

They belong to the
. 日本の仙人37人 - The 37 Immortals of Japan .
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10 善仲 Zenchu (708 - 768)

He and his brother became acolytes at the temple Tennōji 摂津天王寺 Settsu Tenno-Ji in Osaka at age 9, Their master was 栄湛 priest Eitan.
They were both very wise children and called shindoo神童 Shindō child prodigy, Wunderkinder.

In 727 they left the city and retreated to a hermitage at 勝尾山 Mount Katsuosan.

One of his disciples was 開成 Kaijo, who later founded the temple 弥勒寺 Miroku-Ji, now known as 勝尾寺 Katsuo-Ji.

Zenchu died on the 15th day of the second lunar month it the second year of 神護景雲 Jingo-Keiun at age 61.
His normal name was 藤原 Fujiwara.

Kaijo was the son of emperor Kōnin 光仁天皇 Konin Tenno (709 - 782).

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. Katsuooji 勝尾寺 Katsuo-Ji .
2914-1 Aomatani, 箕面市 Minoh City (Northern Osaka) - It is located close to the Mino Waterfall.
This temple is famous for its Daruma collection.

source : Loot at YouTube

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According to an English language brochure given out at the temple, the site was first occupied late in the Nara period
by two priests, Zenchū and Zensan.
The Miroku-ji temple was erected in 765 CE. The name "Katsuō-ji" was given by the Emperor Seiwa. The temple was burned in 1184 CE. The present Main Hall and Temple Gate were rebuilt by Toyotomi Hideyori.
Katsuō-ji is the 23rd temple in the Kansai Kannon Pilgrimage.
"Winner's Luck" and Daruma
The word "katsu" in the temple's name refers to winning. People buy daruma dolls hoping to obtain "winner's luck". If the wish is fulfilled, the daruma is often returned to the temple and left somewhere on the grounds.
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11 善算 Zensan (708 - 769)

His live record is the same as his elder brother Zenchu.
Zensan died on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month it the third year of 神護景雲 Jingo-Keiun at age 62.

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Koma no Kikori 高麗山樵（こまのきこり）woodcutter from Mount Komayama

He is Nr. 01 of
. 日本の仏仙人16人 - The 16 Buddhist Immortals of Japan .

His father was 真珠男（またまお）Matamao and his mother 白綿女（しらゆうめ）Shirayume. His parents are known as 神仙 Sennin, living at 春嶽（はるだけ）Mount Harudake in 相模国大磯 Oiso, Sagami.
On orders of Yamanokami 山の神, the God of the Mountain, they had placed the baby at the shrine of Koma Myojin高麗明神.

山下長者 Yamashita Choja did not have any children of his own. He found the baby near a tree in the shrine compound and educated it.
When the boy was older, Koma no Kikori went back tho the mountains to look for his parents.
He lived from leaves and nuts and at the age of 15 mastered the art of flying freely. Now the boy could visit his real parents on the mountain and fly back to the valley to see his foster parents. Eventually he said good bye and never came back to the Yamashita family.
But the family of Yamashita prospered and became very rich (長者 choja means millionaire) over many generations.
Some stories about them from the Kamakura period are known.

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Hiratsuka, Mount Komayama高麗山 and Mount Fuji in the background.
Koraiyama is another reading for this mountain.
It is only 168 m high.
There was a temple, 高麗寺 (こうらいじ) Koraiji, near the mountain. It was founded by 高麗若光（こまのじゃっこう) Koma no Jakko, a prince from Korea, Goguryeo.
Jakko arrived in Asuka (then the capital of Japan, now a village near Nara) but had to witness from afar how his country crumbled until the Chinese / Silla finally ripped it to pieces. He never returned to Goguryeo.
The Asuka Imperial Court held the people from Goguryeo in high regard. Jakko was made a high-ranking court official and was granted the title of kokishi, a hereditary title bestowed upon important people of foreign origin.
There are other shrines, 高麗神社, Koma Jinja, in his honor.
source : japanvisitor.com...

. The Korean heritage 韓国　Kankoku 　朝鮮 Chosen .

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Yamashita Choja 山下長者 Remains of the residence
神奈川県平塚市山下 Kanagawa, Hiratsuka

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