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Yakushi Nyorai Legends from Miyagi 宮城県
. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru .
- Legends about Yakushi Nyorai -
nure Yakushi 濡れ薬師 Yakushi who gets wet
shio no Yakushi 塩の薬師 Yakushi and Salt
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nabe Yakushi 鍋薬師 Yakushi and the cooking pot
黒川郡 Kurokawa 大和町 Yamato village
In the year 1592 Lord Date Masamune led his troups from 岩出山城 Iwadeyama Castle toward the capital of Kyoto. To honor the God of War 軍神 with a blood offering 血祭 at the forest 七ツ森 he begun a hunt for a sacrifice animal, but they did not catch anything. Masamune got angry and begun to climb up Mount 大森山 Omoriyama. From there he saw something black in the distance.
When he asked his retainer 片倉小十郎 Katakura Kojuro, he said it was Yakushi Nyorai.
The angry Masamune ordered a shot at it and broke the breast of the Nabe Yakushi, but at the same time blood was running out of his own nose and did not stop.
Kojuro bowed many times 三拝九拝 and then used the leaf of the bamboo grass (sasa 笹) to stop the nose bleeding.
The anger of Masamune was also calmed down now and he climbed down the mountain. He then ordered the mountain to become his special hunting ground.
- - - One version of the legend says:
The arrow came flying back at Masamune and hit his eye, causing him to loose his eyesight.
Ōmori-yama 大森山薬師如来 Omoiryama Yakushi Nyorai is now a famous camping spot in Miyagi.
The mountain is 226 meters high. A festival in honor of "The Buddha of Healing" is held.
The mountain is also called 笹倉山 Sasakura-yama at 七つ森 Nanatsumori .
The grave of Masamune is at the temple 大義山 覚照寺 Kakusho-Ji
宮城県黒川郡大和町宮床字大椚６９ / Okunugi-69 Miyatoko, Taiwa, Kurokawa District, Miyagi
. Date Masamune 伊達政宗 (1567 - 1636) .
宮城県仙台市若林区木ノ下2丁目8-28
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nure Yakushi 濡れ薬師 Yakushi who got wet
Miyagi - 柴田郡 柴田町 Shibata
At the village Tsukinoki槻木 there had been a long period of sunshine and drought.
The villagers gathered at the swamp 鰌沼 Dojo-Numa and decided to make an offering of a village girl to the Dragon king 竜神 as a rain ritual 雨乞い (amagoi).
The beautiful O-Yoshi およし agreed to be the victim, because she was upset with her first love, Kensaku 勘作 and felt very unhappy with her life.
On her way to the swamp, O-Yoshi she met an itinerant priest. When he heard her story he suggested that the Dragon God would not be content with her unhappy sacrifice and they would better give him a statue of Yakushi Nyorai.
When they threw the statue in the water, Yakushi got wet and then - - suddenly a strong rain began to fall and the village was saved.
They build a Yakushi Hall 薬師堂 and a small retreat for O-Yoshi who would now serve Yakushi Nyorai at the temple.
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Gunma 高崎市南八幡 - Takasaki Town Minami Hachiman
Near the fence of the assembly hall and the graveyard of the Uehara family 上原家墓地 there is a cherry tree. Below it there is a stone with the inscription of 濡れ薬師.
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Since olden times, this Yakushi san has been known to heal diseases of the eyes and many people, who got healed by his power, come here to pray again in gratitude. They also made other small stone statues as offerings, now there are more than 30 beside the Yakushi stone.
But why is it called "Yakushi who gets wet" ?
Well, once there was a good man who built a roof over the stone to keep it dry and protect it from the rain. But then . . . the home of this good man burned down.
So people thought the stone and Yakushi with it were ment to get wet.
- source and more photos : 南八幡 History
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shio no Yakushi 塩の薬師 Yakushi and Salt
Miyagi 名取市 Natori 塩手 Shiote
Once upon a time
some say it was in the year 647, at the bottom of Mount Shiodeyama塩出山 there was a spring with salty water. An old priest 老僧 and 12 acolytes boiled the water to make salt and distributed it to the villagers.
Because of this beneficent salt, all villagers were healed from their illnesses and became healthy.
The old priest was seen as an incarnation of Yakushi Nyorai and thus the name given to him.
The place where the salt water welled up was called Shiogawara塩河原 and the place where they boiled it down was called Shiode 塩出 - "where the salt comes from".
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Shio Yakushi Doo 塩薬師堂 Hall for the Shio Yakushi 塩薬師
This Hall is beside the pond Shio no Ike 塩ノ池.
Once upon a time
during a wildfire most of the hamlet was burned down, but the statue of Yakushi flew high in the sky and was saved. It landed safely in a pine tree nearby. So the greatful villagers build a hall for him there and called him the "Salt Yakushi"塩薬師.
The seated statue we see now is from the Muromachi period, covered with lacquer and then gold foil. It is seated on a lotus throne.
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at the temple 塩福山永禅寺 Eizen-Ji
宮城県名取市愛島塩手字仮宿４６
The main statue is Shaka Nyorai.
There is also a statue of Fudo Myo-O 大聖不動明王
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The statue is carved with one knife 一刀彫 and one among the three famous standing statues of Fudo Myo-O 不動三尊立像 in Tohoku.
- source : sekishin.info
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Kinoshita no Yakushi 木ノ下の薬師 Yakushi from Kinoshita
陸奥国分寺 Mutsu Kokubun-Ji 薬師堂 Yakushi-Do Hall
宮城県仙台市若林区木ノ下2丁目8-28 / 2 Chome-8-28 Kinoshita, Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai
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This is the provincial temple of former Mutsu Province. The Hall for Yakushi 薬師堂 Yakushidō is an Important Cultural Property.
After its first construction around 740, the temple was destroyed in 1189. Lord Date Masamune rebuilt the complex in 1607, including the Yakushi Hall.
In 1903 it was designated an Important Cultural Property.
When Date Masamune was involved in a severe fight with 大崎義隆 Osaki Yoshitaka (1548 - 1603) it seemed difficult for his forces to win. Then suddenly 48 brave monk-soldiers 法師武者 appeared from nowhere and fought with the enemy, so in the end Masamune was victorious.
When he asked where these soldiers had come from, he was told
"From Kinoshita in Miyagino 宮城野" and the soldiers vanished as fast as they had appeared.
At Miyagino there was only a group of stone markers in a small stone sanctuary, dedicated to Yakushi Nyorai.
That night Masamune had a dream telling him that the soldiers had come on orders of Yakushi Nyorai to help him.
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朝鮮の役に政宗の軍勢が肥前の名護屋を出航したとき、薬師如来が支那に学問修行しにいく僧に化身して便乗して玄界灘を無事乗り切るよう保護し、帰還のときも同乗して守ってくれた。往復ともに僧は「陸奥木ノ下の僧」とのみ答えて名を言わなかった。
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Daruma ko ame 達磨コ飴 / 達磨子飴 Daruma lollipop
A kind of candy in red color and the form of Daruma san.
On the seventh day of the first month and the third day of the third month of the old lunar year during the festival of Yakushi お薬師さん this sweet was sold. People who eat it will be healthy all year long.
After buying it you have to roll it up the stairs to the Daruma statue in the Yakushi Hall 薬師堂 and then offer it to the 神棚 Shelf of the Gods in your own home with the wish for the child or children to grow up healthy and well.
This custom was very popular until about 1910. Another type was a small horse sweet.
. 仙台のだるま飴 Daruma sweets from Sendai .
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Shiga no Yakushi 志賀の薬師 Yakushi from Shiga village
岩沼市 Iwanuma 志賀 Shiga
貞観2年（861）慈覚大師開基のとき、飛騨工匠が村人に一夜で堂を建ててみせるという。村人が夜明け前に鶏の啼く真似をしたので、工匠は天井板一枚張り かねて立ち去った。堂前の坂の中ごろにある蛇石は、材木を運んだ牛が転んで石に化したという。堂に狩野法眼元信の絵馬に手綱が描かれていないので、絵馬か ら抜け出して畑を荒らしたため、元信に頼み手綱を描き加えてもらったという。
. Ennin - Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 .
(794 – 864)
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sugi Yakushi 杉薬師 Yakushi and the cedar tree
栗原郡 Kurihara 築館町 Tsugidatecho
天平（729～749）の昔、孝謙天皇が御不例で、医薬効なく太史に占わせたところ、陸奥にある高さ数十丈の大杉の枝葉が雲をしのぎ、その陰が皇居に達し ているさわりと分り、大納言某を遣わして伐採を命じた。某は築館の地に大杉を発見し伐ったところ、伐り口から血が流れ、翌日はふさがって元通りになる。幾 ら伐っても同じことであった。杉の東北の広野にある茅萱を縄とし伐り口をふさげば伐れるという占いによりようやく伐り倒す。切りくずは飛散して一片もな かった。天皇の御病も治り、勅命で伐り口に仏堂を立てた。のち慈覚大師が薬師如来を安置した。
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- reference -
Monsters, legends and Yakushi妖怪データベース
- source : nichibun yokai database ..............................................................................................................................................
. O-Mamori お守り Amulets and Talismans .
. Fudō Myō-ō, Fudoo Myoo-Oo 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O
Acala Vidyârâja - Vidyaraja - Fudo Myoo .
. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru .
- Legends about Yakushi Nyorai -
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Yakushi Nyorai Legends from Miyagi 宮城県
. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru .
- Legends about Yakushi Nyorai -
nure Yakushi 濡れ薬師 Yakushi who gets wet
shio no Yakushi 塩の薬師 Yakushi and Salt
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under construction
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nabe Yakushi 鍋薬師 Yakushi and the cooking pot
黒川郡 Kurokawa 大和町 Yamato village
In the year 1592 Lord Date Masamune led his troups from 岩出山城 Iwadeyama Castle toward the capital of Kyoto. To honor the God of War 軍神 with a blood offering 血祭 at the forest 七ツ森 he begun a hunt for a sacrifice animal, but they did not catch anything. Masamune got angry and begun to climb up Mount 大森山 Omoriyama. From there he saw something black in the distance.
When he asked his retainer 片倉小十郎 Katakura Kojuro, he said it was Yakushi Nyorai.
The angry Masamune ordered a shot at it and broke the breast of the Nabe Yakushi, but at the same time blood was running out of his own nose and did not stop.
Kojuro bowed many times 三拝九拝 and then used the leaf of the bamboo grass (sasa 笹) to stop the nose bleeding.
The anger of Masamune was also calmed down now and he climbed down the mountain. He then ordered the mountain to become his special hunting ground.
- - - One version of the legend says:
The arrow came flying back at Masamune and hit his eye, causing him to loose his eyesight.
Ōmori-yama 大森山薬師如来 Omoiryama Yakushi Nyorai is now a famous camping spot in Miyagi.
The mountain is 226 meters high. A festival in honor of "The Buddha of Healing" is held.
The mountain is also called 笹倉山 Sasakura-yama at 七つ森 Nanatsumori .
The grave of Masamune is at the temple 大義山 覚照寺 Kakusho-Ji
宮城県黒川郡大和町宮床字大椚６９ / Okunugi-69 Miyatoko, Taiwa, Kurokawa District, Miyagi
. Date Masamune 伊達政宗 (1567 - 1636) .
宮城県仙台市若林区木ノ下2丁目8-28
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nure Yakushi 濡れ薬師 Yakushi who got wet
Miyagi - 柴田郡 柴田町 Shibata
At the village Tsukinoki槻木 there had been a long period of sunshine and drought.
The villagers gathered at the swamp 鰌沼 Dojo-Numa and decided to make an offering of a village girl to the Dragon king 竜神 as a rain ritual 雨乞い (amagoi).
The beautiful O-Yoshi およし agreed to be the victim, because she was upset with her first love, Kensaku 勘作 and felt very unhappy with her life.
On her way to the swamp, O-Yoshi she met an itinerant priest. When he heard her story he suggested that the Dragon God would not be content with her unhappy sacrifice and they would better give him a statue of Yakushi Nyorai.
When they threw the statue in the water, Yakushi got wet and then - - suddenly a strong rain began to fall and the village was saved.
They build a Yakushi Hall 薬師堂 and a small retreat for O-Yoshi who would now serve Yakushi Nyorai at the temple.
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Gunma 高崎市南八幡 - Takasaki Town Minami Hachiman
Near the fence of the assembly hall and the graveyard of the Uehara family 上原家墓地 there is a cherry tree. Below it there is a stone with the inscription of 濡れ薬師.
Since olden times, this Yakushi san has been known to heal diseases of the eyes and many people, who got healed by his power, come here to pray again in gratitude. They also made other small stone statues as offerings, now there are more than 30 beside the Yakushi stone.
But why is it called "Yakushi who gets wet" ?
Well, once there was a good man who built a roof over the stone to keep it dry and protect it from the rain. But then . . . the home of this good man burned down.
So people thought the stone and Yakushi with it were ment to get wet.
- source and more photos : 南八幡 History
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shio no Yakushi 塩の薬師 Yakushi and Salt
Miyagi 名取市 Natori 塩手 Shiote
Once upon a time
some say it was in the year 647, at the bottom of Mount Shiodeyama塩出山 there was a spring with salty water. An old priest 老僧 and 12 acolytes boiled the water to make salt and distributed it to the villagers.
Because of this beneficent salt, all villagers were healed from their illnesses and became healthy.
The old priest was seen as an incarnation of Yakushi Nyorai and thus the name given to him.
The place where the salt water welled up was called Shiogawara塩河原 and the place where they boiled it down was called Shiode 塩出 - "where the salt comes from".
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Shio Yakushi Doo 塩薬師堂 Hall for the Shio Yakushi 塩薬師
This Hall is beside the pond Shio no Ike 塩ノ池.
Once upon a time
during a wildfire most of the hamlet was burned down, but the statue of Yakushi flew high in the sky and was saved. It landed safely in a pine tree nearby. So the greatful villagers build a hall for him there and called him the "Salt Yakushi"塩薬師.
The seated statue we see now is from the Muromachi period, covered with lacquer and then gold foil. It is seated on a lotus throne.
at the temple 塩福山永禅寺 Eizen-Ji
宮城県名取市愛島塩手字仮宿４６
The main statue is Shaka Nyorai.
There is also a statue of Fudo Myo-O 大聖不動明王
The statue is carved with one knife 一刀彫 and one among the three famous standing statues of Fudo Myo-O 不動三尊立像 in Tohoku.
- source : sekishin.info
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Kinoshita no Yakushi 木ノ下の薬師 Yakushi from Kinoshita
陸奥国分寺 Mutsu Kokubun-Ji 薬師堂 Yakushi-Do Hall
宮城県仙台市若林区木ノ下2丁目8-28 / 2 Chome-8-28 Kinoshita, Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai
This is the provincial temple of former Mutsu Province. The Hall for Yakushi 薬師堂 Yakushidō is an Important Cultural Property.
After its first construction around 740, the temple was destroyed in 1189. Lord Date Masamune rebuilt the complex in 1607, including the Yakushi Hall.
In 1903 it was designated an Important Cultural Property.
When Date Masamune was involved in a severe fight with 大崎義隆 Osaki Yoshitaka (1548 - 1603) it seemed difficult for his forces to win. Then suddenly 48 brave monk-soldiers 法師武者 appeared from nowhere and fought with the enemy, so in the end Masamune was victorious.
When he asked where these soldiers had come from, he was told
"From Kinoshita in Miyagino 宮城野" and the soldiers vanished as fast as they had appeared.
At Miyagino there was only a group of stone markers in a small stone sanctuary, dedicated to Yakushi Nyorai.
That night Masamune had a dream telling him that the soldiers had come on orders of Yakushi Nyorai to help him.
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朝鮮の役に政宗の軍勢が肥前の名護屋を出航したとき、薬師如来が支那に学問修行しにいく僧に化身して便乗して玄界灘を無事乗り切るよう保護し、帰還のときも同乗して守ってくれた。往復ともに僧は「陸奥木ノ下の僧」とのみ答えて名を言わなかった。
Daruma ko ame 達磨コ飴 / 達磨子飴 Daruma lollipop
A kind of candy in red color and the form of Daruma san.
On the seventh day of the first month and the third day of the third month of the old lunar year during the festival of Yakushi お薬師さん this sweet was sold. People who eat it will be healthy all year long.
After buying it you have to roll it up the stairs to the Daruma statue in the Yakushi Hall 薬師堂 and then offer it to the 神棚 Shelf of the Gods in your own home with the wish for the child or children to grow up healthy and well.
This custom was very popular until about 1910. Another type was a small horse sweet.
. 仙台のだるま飴 Daruma sweets from Sendai .
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Shiga no Yakushi 志賀の薬師 Yakushi from Shiga village
岩沼市 Iwanuma 志賀 Shiga
貞観2年（861）慈覚大師開基のとき、飛騨工匠が村人に一夜で堂を建ててみせるという。村人が夜明け前に鶏の啼く真似をしたので、工匠は天井板一枚張り かねて立ち去った。堂前の坂の中ごろにある蛇石は、材木を運んだ牛が転んで石に化したという。堂に狩野法眼元信の絵馬に手綱が描かれていないので、絵馬か ら抜け出して畑を荒らしたため、元信に頼み手綱を描き加えてもらったという。
. Ennin - Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 .
(794 – 864)
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sugi Yakushi 杉薬師 Yakushi and the cedar tree
栗原郡 Kurihara 築館町 Tsugidatecho
天平（729～749）の昔、孝謙天皇が御不例で、医薬効なく太史に占わせたところ、陸奥にある高さ数十丈の大杉の枝葉が雲をしのぎ、その陰が皇居に達し ているさわりと分り、大納言某を遣わして伐採を命じた。某は築館の地に大杉を発見し伐ったところ、伐り口から血が流れ、翌日はふさがって元通りになる。幾 ら伐っても同じことであった。杉の東北の広野にある茅萱を縄とし伐り口をふさげば伐れるという占いによりようやく伐り倒す。切りくずは飛散して一片もな かった。天皇の御病も治り、勅命で伐り口に仏堂を立てた。のち慈覚大師が薬師如来を安置した。
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- reference -
Monsters, legends and Yakushi妖怪データベース
- source : nichibun yokai database ..............................................................................................................................................
. O-Mamori お守り Amulets and Talismans .
. Fudō Myō-ō, Fudoo Myoo-Oo 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O
Acala Vidyârâja - Vidyaraja - Fudo Myoo .
. Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru .
- Legends about Yakushi Nyorai -
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. Japan - Shrines and Temples - ABC .
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