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(520) Foxes at Dogo-Inari-jinja Shrine [調べる]

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Photo 1: 2020/11/25 Photo 2: 2020/11/25

  There is a vermillion Inari-jinja shrine next to the fourth hot-water-delivering facility of Dogo Hot spring. The Dogo Inari shrine was rebuilt 2018, so, it is very new now.

  By the way, can you read the letter carved on the stones beneath the stone fox statues?

They read 献 奉, that is, "奉献" meaning "dedication".

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Photo 3: 献の字体 Photo 4: 奉の字体
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Photo 5: 2020/11/25 Photo 6: 2020/11/25

  Two fox (kitsune) stone statues sit in front of the shrine. One has a scroll and the other has a ball of jewel called "hoju (宝珠)" in its mouth. In addition, on the top of their tails "hoju" is put.

  It is said that the ball of jewel symbolizes a warehouse of grain and the scroll is the symbol of wisdom. Kitsune, a fox is a real animal but is considered supernatural in Japan. Kitsune is the object of worship of Inari Shinko, an old folk religion.

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Photo 7: 2020/11/25

You can see hoju gem (宝珠) mark on the stone base of the fox statues, which resembles Yudama (a bubbling hot water image 湯玉) of Dogo hot spring.

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Photo 8: Yudama on Dogo Onsen main building 2018/11/22

 

  Long ago the deities of Fushimi-Inari were enshrined in Matsuyama. Dogo-Inari-jinja shrine was relocate here in Meiji 42 (1909). The main deity of the shrine is Ukanomitana-no-Kami, Goddess of food and agriculture. Inari was originally and remains primarily the kami of rice and agriculture, but merchants and manufacturers also worship Inari as the patron of business.

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Poto 9: Wooden sitting statue of Ukanomitamano-mikoto



  According to myth, Inari, as a goddess, was said to have comet to Japan at the time of its creation amidst a harsh famine that struck the land. "She [Inari] descended from Heaven riding on a white fox, and her hand she carried sheaves of cereal or grain.
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(519) Karyobinga at Isaniwa shrine [調べる]

What is this? It's a Karyōbinga!
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https://isaniwa.official.jp/2016/12/13/ご本殿の蟇股/
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The figure of Karyobinga (迦陵頻伽) is carved on the gable on the south side of the main shrine of Isaniwa. Karyobinga is a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism, with a human head and a bird's torso, with a long flowing tail. In "Amitabha sutra 阿弥陀経", Karyobinga is said to live in the Western pure land (極楽浄土 Gokuraku Jodo). A transliteration of the Sanskrit "kalavinka", an imaginary creature in Buddhism. It is also translated to myōoncho (妙音鳥, "exquisite sounding bird"). Although it appears as a human head bird in Chinese Buddhist mural paintings, in Japanese Buddhist art it has been drawn with the lower body of a bird on the upper body of a winged Bodhisattva (菩薩
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  This carving is a detailed design of Buddhist construction, which tells the long history of Shinbutsu Shugo (神仏習合、"syncretism of kami and buddhas"), which was started by Hachiman God. Hachiman god joined the Buddhist pantheon as Hachiman Great Bodhisattva (八幡大菩薩, Hachiman Daibosatsu).


For Your Information;
Kalavika / Sanskrit: कलविङ्क kalavika; [Callwink] is spelled in the characters of different languages of Asian countries.


Chinese: 迦陵頻伽 Jiālíngpínqié; [↑チャーリンピンチャー]
Japanese: Karyōbinga (迦陵頻伽)
Korean: 가릉빈가; [galeungbinga]
Vietnamese: Ca Lăng Tn Già; [カーランタンザー]
Burmese: ကရဝိက်; [karawiatフィアウエイ] mythical bird supposed to have a melodious cry
Thai: การเวก, [Kārwekチャーラウエーイ] Names of birds in fairy tales Believed to be in the Himmapan forest. It looks like Garuda Prasom with a swan, fly high above the clouds, feast on food, and have a beautiful voice. All the animals heard will be stopped by the grasp of the cry, the wig calling.
Malay: karawek
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(518) MinnaIssho-Daibutsu at Ishite-ji Temple [調べる]

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Photo 1: 2020/11/25 MinnaIssho-Daibutsu 皆一緒大仏

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Photo 1: 2020/11/25, Photo 3: 2020/11/27

  This group of stone Buddhist images is called "Everybody-is -the-same Buddha(皆一緒大仏 minna issho dai utsu)" according to an article of Ehime-shimbun newspaper of Nov. 22, 2018. The article said that a ceremony of consecrating the newly made Buddhist statues was held on Nov. 20, 2018.

  One volunteer guide of Matsuyama Convention and Visitors Bureau taught me that it is a three-dimensional mandala formed of 15 stone statues. At Toji-temple in Kyoto, there is a 3D mandala of 21 statues, which saint Kobo Kukai made. But the guide didn't know why the temple named it "Everybody -is-the-same Buddha (皆一緒大仏 minna issho daibutsu)". I thought it myself. Suddenly, this phrase reminded me of Kaneko Misuzu's poem. She wrote in her poem, "A bell, a little bird, and me, We're all different and all wonderful". I also remembered that Ishiteji-temple published a booklet named "Buddhism and Kaneko Misuzu's poem". After reading it again, I am now sure this naming means that "Everybody is equally important".

  I took photos of two flags at the site of Ishiteji-temple. One is read "Everybody-is-the-same mandala (皆一緒曼荼羅)" and the other is "Unbeaten-and-Live-together Buddhas (不敗共生大仏)". Wow, another new name for the Buddhist images? Now I understood that these are kind of nicknames. The chief priest of the temple seemed to enjoy giving nicknames to the 3D mandala.

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  What is a mandala? A mandala is a map representing Buddhist images. Teaching of esoteric Buddhism (密教 Mikkyo) is expressed as a mandala. In order to convey the mandala more realistically, Saint Kobo made the 3D mandala of 21 statues at Toji-temple.

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