tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post3232205255281022228..comments2023-06-13T08:01:46.680-07:00Comments on WKD - Saijiki for Festivals and Ceremonies: Osorezan FestivalGabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post-80026629844488977702021-10-26T17:54:40.627-07:002021-10-26T17:54:40.627-07:00kuchiyose Legend from Fukushima 会津若松市 Aizu Wakamat...<b> kuchiyose Legend from Fukushima 会津若松市 Aizu Wakamatsu city 河東町 Kawahigashi town </b><br />.<br /> hotoke no kuchiyose ホトケノ口寄セ ritual to call a dead person<br />Before World War II there was a special ritual at 八葉寺阿弥陀堂 the Amida Hall of the Temple Hachiyo-Ji.<br />A medium would call the soul of dead person and communicate with it. <br />.<br />The Amida hall was established by 空也上人 Saint Kuya Shonin in 964.<br />.<br />https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2021/04/amida-do-hall-legends.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post-55305453056816160402021-08-24T21:48:51.446-07:002021-08-24T21:48:51.446-07:00Kanagawa, 秦野市 Hadano city
At 大日堂 the Dainichi Do ...<b> Kanagawa, 秦野市 Hadano city </b><br />At 大日堂 the Dainichi Do Hall at the temple 香音寺 Koon-Ji there was an Itako medium.<br />If someone had died, his family would go there to contact the dead via the Itako, be it man or woman.<br />.<br />https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2021/03/dainichi-do-hall-legends.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post-38854109563796078972021-02-20T20:25:39.646-08:002021-02-20T20:25:39.646-08:00Ubadoo 姥堂 Hall for Datsueba
Once upon a time in ...<b> Ubadoo 姥堂 Hall for Datsueba </b><br />Once upon a time in a year with long rain 三途川 the river Sanzunokawa overflowed, the hall were the statue of 奪衣婆 Datsueba was kept, floated downriver to 正津川 Shozugawa. The villagers brought the things back, but over night they all went back to Shozugawa.<br />Therefore the villagers now built a hall for the statue and kept the statue there.<br />.<br />More about Datsueba - the Old Hag of Hell .<br />.<br />https://darumamuseumgallery.blogspot.com/2009/11/datsueba.html<br />.<br /> Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post-13692649783158955202020-06-06T21:28:50.224-07:002020-06-06T21:28:50.224-07:00Tanabu Kaido 田名部街道 Tanabu Highway
In Aomori 青森県, c...<b> Tanabu Kaido 田名部街道 Tanabu Highway<br />In Aomori 青森県, connecting 野辺地 Noheji with 田名部 Tanabu (むつ市 Mutsu city).</b><br />used by the pilgrims to Mount Osorezan.<br />.<br />https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2020/03/tanabu-kaido-highway.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post-26115910435107831662019-11-07T20:30:21.592-08:002019-11-07T20:30:21.592-08:00恐山:血の池地獄 chinoike jigoku blood pond hell
堕獄の女性を救う...恐山:血の池地獄 chinoike jigoku blood pond hell <br />堕獄の女性を救う ”如意輪観音”Nyoirin Kannon protects the women<br />.<br />https://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.com/2019/07/chi-no-ike-blood-pond-legends.html<br />.<br />Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post-81526613148448998682017-11-14T21:25:04.567-08:002017-11-14T21:25:04.567-08:00toigiki 問い聞き / 問聞 / トイギキ と伝説 Legends about Shamani...<b>toigiki 問い聞き / 問聞 / トイギキ と伝説 Legends about Shamanism<br />hotokeoroshi ホトケオロシ / 仏オロシ "calling the Buddha to earth"<br />kamioroshi カミオロシ / 神おろし / 神降ろし "calling a Kami to earth" <br /></b><br /><br />Legends -<br />https://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.jp/2017/11/toigiki-shamanism-legends.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post-15085556989197518722017-09-13T21:45:21.195-07:002017-09-13T21:45:21.195-07:00Legend むつ市 Mutsu town
sanzubashi 三途橋 Bridge over ...Legend むつ市 Mutsu town<br /><b><br />sanzubashi 三途橋 Bridge over the river Sanzu at Osorezan </b><br />When a sinfull, bad and wicked person came to this bridge, to him it looked as thin as a thread and the leaves of the willow tree looked like dangerous snakes.<br />The huge boulder in the back looked like an oni-ishi 鬼石 demon stone with sparkling eyes of a serpent.<br />The water under the bridge would cleanse the sins, but its sound was fearful and the sinner would not dare to cross. <br />.<br />https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.jp/2013/04/sanzu-no-kawa-river.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post-66547600408212241132017-04-16T22:26:57.382-07:002017-04-16T22:26:57.382-07:00Jizoo Son 地蔵尊 Jizo Bosatsu
at 恐山 菩提寺 temple Bodai-...Jizoo Son 地蔵尊 Jizo Bosatsu<br />at 恐山 菩提寺 temple Bodai-Ji, Osoreza<br /><br />The statue of Jiso Bosatsu at the temple is out all night to help the dead children and sinners from the fangs of the Oni. To help them all fast, he has cut off the long sleeves and sems of his robe and slams his 錫杖 staff on the rocks with a loud noise.<br />The feet of the statue are always covered with sand - they say.<br />.<br />https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.jp/2017/04/jigoku-hell-demons-devils.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post-16841348371569897492015-04-10T22:06:21.436-07:002015-04-10T22:06:21.436-07:00薬師の湯 Yakushi no Yu onsen hot spring
at Osorezan 恐山...薬師の湯 Yakushi no Yu onsen hot spring<br />at Osorezan 恐山 - 青森県むつ市田名部字宇曽利山3-2<br /><br />At the Osorezan Hot Spring area, there are many different kinds of baths.<br />.<br />Yakushi Nyorai<br />http://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.jp/2015/04/yakushi-legends-tohoku.html<br />.Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post-35196532064616043562014-08-22T19:11:12.042-07:002014-08-22T19:11:12.042-07:00mukasari ema ムカサリ絵馬
votive tablets through which t...mukasari ema ムカサリ絵馬<br />votive tablets through which the souls of those who died unmarried were wed to painted spirit spouses.<br />from Yamagata<br />They are still painted to our day!<br /><br />.<br />http://www41.tok2.com/home/kanihei5/mogamimukasari.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425704564220359420.post-7372894291404276392012-02-18T16:52:52.404-08:002012-02-18T16:52:52.404-08:00"I Am Anjuhimeko"
none of that really m..."I Am Anjuhimeko"<br /><br />none of that really matters anyway, but that's not what father says, <br />he says let's try burying her in the sand and waiting three years, <br />mother was willing to just go along with that, that was a big disappointment, <br />but, well, here's the problem, <br />I'm just a newborn who can't even see, and I can't even utter a word to talk back, so I was wrapped in my mother's silk underclothes and buried in a sandy spot near a river<br /><br />"I Am Anjuhimeko" is based on an oral text passed down for more than 2,000 years in the northeastern countryside of Japan. In this gruesome story, the titular infant is maliciously disposed of but rises from her would-be grave and sets out on a journey of preposterous abuse and hardships to find her missing parents.<br /><br />Hiromi Ito recites<br /><br />More in the Japan Times<br />http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120219x2.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29anonymous newshttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120219x2.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+japantimes+(The+Japan+Times:+All+Stories)noreply@blogger.com