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2014/08/26

Aizen Fudo

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ryootoo Aizen 両頭愛染 Ryoto Aizen with two heads

. Aizen Myo-O 愛染明王 .
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Aizen with two heads, one of them is Fudo Myo-O

Aizen mit zwei Köpfen (ryoozu Aizen, ryootoo Aizen)
Einer der Köpfe ist Fudo Myo-O.

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不動明王と愛染明王の二つの顔を持った「両頭愛染明王」などの名称をもつ異形の像があり、高野山にもこれらの異形像が伝わっています。



密教には、金剛界と胎蔵界の二つの世界があります。簡単に言えば金剛界が智慧で胎蔵界が慈悲ですね。或いは、金剛界が理論または父親・胎蔵界が愛情または母親、ととってもいいでしょう。金剛界を代表する明王が愛染明王です。そして、胎蔵界を代表する明王が不動明王なのです。不動明王が理や智慧、父親であり、愛染明王が慈悲・愛情・母親であり、逆に守るものとして調和としてあるのでしょうか。

理想は、智慧と慈悲、理と情と分けるのではなく、その両者が合体したものですよね。それが、完璧な状態でしょう。その完璧な姿を現したのが、この両頭愛染なのです。智慧と慈悲、理論と愛情、父と母の統合型なのです。理想と愛情の狭間に悩む方、頭ではわかっているけど感情的にはどうも . . .と悩んでいる方は、この両頭愛染を拝むといいでしょう。
- source : www.sakai.zaq.ne.jp/piicats


. Fudō Myō-ō, Fudoo Myoo-Oo 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O
Acala Vidyârâja - Vidyaraja - Fudo Myoo .


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Koyasan Museum 愛染明王 - 高野山霊宝館

Kobo Daishi Kukai introduced  Aizen Myo-O to Japan.

弘法大師によって日本に伝えられた愛染明王は、愛情などの敬愛を祈るほか、息災・増益・ 調伏を祈る本尊として、特に鎌倉時代以降に広く信仰されるようになりました。



- source : www.reihokan.or.jp/syuzohin

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Exhibition in Osaka - treasures from Koyasan
2014年6月1日に閉幕した、大阪市立美術館「山の神仏-吉野・熊野・高野」

両頭愛染明王坐像(天野社伝来)
室町~江戸時代 和歌山・金剛峯寺 Kongobu-Ji, Wakayama



- source : amidatempel.wordpress.com

. Koya San in Wakayama 高野山 和歌山県 .

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Manganji 満願寺 Temple Mangan-Ji
島根県松江市西浜佐陀町879 / 879 Nishihamasadachō, Matsue-shi, Shimane

尼子合戦の折り毛利勢の陣となり、毛利元就公病気平癒により寄進された、愛欲を悟りの心に変え浄化しようとされる愛染明王と不動明王の二つの顔をもつ仏様です。

When Mori Motonari 毛利元就 (1497 - 1571) was ill, he made a donation of this statue and prayed for healing.
Aizen Myo-O and Fudo Myo-O.



- source : www1.ocn.ne.jp/~manganji


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Even as a tatoo - by Wakatomo



- source : wakatomo.sblo.jp


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金沢文庫・特別展 「愛と怒りのほとけ愛染明王」
平成23年10月15日(土)~12月4日(日)
Kanazawa Bunko Exhibition



- source : blog.goo.ne.jp/touhaku-choukoku


. Kanazawa Bunko (金沢文庫) .
a private museum located in Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama, Japan.


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. Aizen Myo-O 愛染明王 .


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



. Japan - Shrines and Temples - ABC .


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2014/07/20

Tsugaru Three Fudo

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Tsugaru San Fudoo 津軽三不動 Three Fudo Statues in Tsugaru, Aomori

All three statues in Tsugaru are said to have been carved of one large tree.
As brothers, Nagaizawa is the eldest, Nakano the middle and Kogake the youngest brother.

All three statues have been carved in 610 by the Chinese priest
Saint Enchi 円智上人 / 圓智上人.
Enchi had made the vow to promote Buddhism in the Northern parts of Japan and worked a lot near Tsugaru Azumayama 津軽阿津摩山, where he built a small retreat to venerate Dainichi Nyorai 大日坊.
He build five Shingon temples in Tsugaru 津軽真言五山 and found his last meditating place at the temple 最勝院 Saisho-In - see below -

The five Shingon temples of Tsugaru are
最勝院(田町現在銅屋町)- Saisho-In
百澤寺 / 百沢寺(岩木町百沢の現在 岩木山神社)- Hyakutaku-Ji
国上寺(碇ヶ関村古懸)- Kokujo-Ji
橋雲寺(岩木町植田)- Kyoun-Ji
久渡寺(旧小沢村現在坂元) - Kudo-Ji

Enchi was a disciple of the Chinese priest Chisha Daishi 智者大師 Chigi ちぎ / 智ギ (538 - 597), the third founder of the Tendai sect.

. Chisha Daishi Ki 智者大師忌 Memorial day for Chisha Daishi .
kigo for mid-winter


- - - - - Introducing the five Shingon temples of Tsugaru
. 津軽弘法大師霊場 - Tsugaru Kobo Daishi Reijo
Pilgrimage to 23 Kobo Daishi temples in Tsugaru .



. The Birth of Enchi and Kasuga Myojin 春日明神 .

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- There are more "THREE FUDO" groups in Japan -
. Three Most Famous Fudo 三大不動尊 - 不動明王
日本三大不動 - 日本三体不動尊
Nihon Sandai Fudo Son .

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There is also a pilgrimage in Tsugaru to 33 Kannon temples
津軽三十三霊場
- source : www.mutusinpou.co.jp

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Nagaizawa Jinja 長谷沢神社 Kuroishi town

Nakano Jinja 中野神社 - Kuroishi town

Kokujo-Ji 国上寺 - Hirakawa town

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Nagaizawa Jinja 長谷沢神社

青森県黒石市上十川長谷沢壱番囲100-2 - Kitaharayoban-8 Kamitogawa, Kuroishi

- Deity in residence
Yamato Takeru no Mikoto 日本武尊

This shrine and Nakano Shrine were founded by
Sakanoue no Tamuramaro 坂上田村麻呂 (758 - 811)
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At the Fudo Hall 不動堂 in the compound, there are three paintings of Fudo Myo-O.
But the wooden statue of Fudo seems to be seated elsewhere now.

- reference - 黒石市 長谷沢神社 -
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Nakano Jinja 中野神社

青森県黒石市南中野字不動舘27 - Fudodate-27 Minaminakano, Kuroishi

This mountain region is famous for the red autumn leaves 中野もみじ山.
And the village is named after the Fudo Hall, Fudo-Date 不動舘.



In the Nakano gorge is a waterfall dedicated to Fudo Myo-O 不動の滝.


- source and more photos : 5.pro.tok2.com/~tetsuyosie

This is a stone statue of Fudo near the waterfall, with a stone frog on each side. This reason is not quite clear.
The wooden statue made by Enchi could not be located yet.


source : madamada888.blog.fc2.com

- reference - 黒石市 中野神社 -

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Kogakesan Fudoo-In Kokujooji 古懸山不動院国上寺 Kokujo-Ji



Kokujo-Ji 國上寺 temple is dedicated to Yakushi Nyorai, Buddha of Healing.
青森県平川市碇ヶ関古懸門前1−1 / Monzen-1-1 Ikarigasekikogake, Hirakawa-shi Town

It has been built in the Heian period on request of Shotoku Taishi at Mount Ajarayama 阿闍羅山 Ajara Yama ( 442 meters) to appease the realm in the Northern districts of Japan.
There were three halls in the compound, one for Fudo Myo-O, one for Dainichi Nyorai 大日坊 and one for Kannon Bosatsu 補陀洛寺.
It is now Nr. 23 on the pilgrimage to 33 Kannon temples in Tsugaru.

In 1154 the regent Hojo Tokiyori (1227 - 1236) re-located the halls to its present location.
They were called 三森山不動院古懸寺 and many warriors of the Kamakura period came here to pray.
In 1588 the first local lord, 津軽右京亮為信 Tsugaru Tamenobu (1550 - 1608) had the temple re-named to 国上山不動院古懸寺 and offered prayers for the safety and peace of the country. Further buildings were also erected at this time, as more land was allocated to the temple.
In 1871 the land was returned to the state and in 1893 during a fire on January 7 many buildings were lost due to a fire.
Munakata Shiko stayed here and promoted the faith in Fudo Myo-O with his art works.


- Temple Chant
むかしより 古懸の山に 法の灯を ともす大師の ありがたきかな
いつまでも 宿りおりたや 国上寺 衣の裾の その下にして





古懸山不動院 Kogakesan Fudo-In (another spelling : Hudouin)
Gomadoo 護摩堂 Goma-Do hall with the statue of Fudo Myo-O
Ajarayama Fudo-In 阿閣羅山不動院




座っている不動尊 - the statue of a seated Fudo Myo-O

- The local story knows this -
The third lord of the region, Tsugaru Nobuyoshi 津軽信義 (1619 - 1655) was at Edo castle when the talk came to statues, so he proudly said "A statue of Fudo Myo-O has to be seated".
But the other daimyo lords did not agree:
"Oh no, this can't be. A statue of Fudo Myo-O always has to be standing!"
The lord of Tsugaru became angry and said:
"Well, if you do not believe me, send an envoy to Tsugaru to have a look at the seated statue."

When Nobuyoshi reached his estate in Edo, he thought by himself:
"Oh dear, I said the statue is seated, but I have never seen it myself really!"
He ordered a fast horse to go to Tsugaru and have the chief retainer at the castle go to the temple to look at the statue.
When the retainer saw the statue, well, it was a standing Fudo Myo-O!
So the retainer, agast at what would happen to his lord in Edo, talked to the statue:
"Please, Fudo sama, sit down. You have to sit down to save the domaine of Tsugaru from great disaster. If you do not sit down now as I order you to, you will be called the "Ungreatful Fudo 恩義知らずの不動" for the rest of your life.

Fudo showed his intimidating face, but then he said:
"Very well then, I will help you and sit down!"
And he kept sitting down till our day.


source : ikarigaseki.xii.jp

The statue of a seated Fudo is also called nemari Fudo Sama ねまり不動様 (lit. "crouching Fudo").

When something bad is going to happen in Tsugaru, the statue starts to sweat (to get wet 湿ってくる).
Maybe it just gets wet when the weather becomes very humid in Tsugaru.

. asekaki Fudo 汗かき不動 / あせかき不動 sweating Fudo .

- The local story knows this -
The second lord of the region, Tsugaru Nobuhira 津軽信牧 (1586 - 1631) had to deal with a long drought and famine in his domaine. He had all the usual rituals for rain and help performed at the temple and was on his way back home. Then suddenly dark clouds came up and it began to rain and rain and rain and thunder ever more. Just when he thought "Well, I better not go home right now ... " he saw a light at the other side. He later learned that at this moment the castle was all aflame, because a producer of fireworks had an accident and fire broke out.
The whole castle burned down, even the large tower and all the historical records he had collected so far.
Legend knows that right before this tragic fire event, the statue of Fudo Myo-O had been sweating. But this time it was foreboding not another famine or flooding, but the fire at the castle.


source : www.hirosaki-taxi.co.jp

- A legend about the Ema votive tablets of this 古懸不動 Fudo:
The horse of the Ema, painted by 狩野法眼 Kano Hogen, used to take off at night and devastate the fields. So he had to paint a chain for the horse to keep it in its place.
(This kind of legend about Kano Hogen is known in other places.)
. Kano Motonobu 狩野元信 Kanō Motonobu .
1476―1559)
Artist name : Kohoogen, Kohōgen こほうげん (古法眼)



津軽弘法大師霊場 - Tsugaru Kobo Daishi Reijo
Pilgrimage to 23 Kobo Daishi temples in Tsugaru
. Nr. 23 - 古懸山 國上寺 Kokujo-Ji(こがけさん こくじょうじ) .

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In the temple are also some Fudo by Munakata Shiko 棟方志功.




source : madamada888.blog.fc2.com

. Shotoku Taishi 聖徳太子 - (574 - 622) .


13 國上寺 - ねまり不動 - Nemari Fudo
Nr. 13 on the pilgrimage
. 東北三十六不動尊霊場 Pilgrimage to 36 Fudo Temples in Tohoku .

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. Tamura Shi 田村氏 The Tamura clan .
- Edo 田村小路 Tamura Koji Alley district

Sakanoue no Tamuramaro 坂上田村麻呂 (758 - 811)
Sakanouye Tamuramaro -
... a general and shogun of the early Heian Period of Japan.
Serving Emperor Kammu, he was appointed shogun and given the task of conquering the Emishi
(蝦夷征伐 Emishi Seibatsu), a people native to the north of Honshū, which he subjugated and drove from the Tohoku region of Honshu to the island of Hokkaido. After emperor Kammu's death, the general continued to serve the emperors Heizei and Saga.

Recent evidence suggests that a migration of Emishi from northern Honshū to Hokkaidō took place sometime between the seventh and eighth centuries, perhaps as a direct result of this policy that pre-dated Tamuramaro's appointment. However, many Emishi remained in the Tōhoku region as subjects of the expanding Japanese Empire, and later established independent Fushu domains. After Emperor Kammu's death, the general continued to serve Emperor Heizei and Emperor Saga as Major Counselor (大納言 dainagon) and Minister of War (兵部卿 Hyōbu-kyō). He was the second man to given the title of shogun.
The first to receive this title was Ōtomo no Otomaro 大伴弟麻呂 (731 - 809).



Sakanoue no Tamuramaro first built Kiyomizu Temple (Kiyomizu-dera), one of the most famous landmarks to be seen in Kyoto.

... It is said that the famous Tanabata festivals and parades of Aomori prefecture (also celebrated in the city of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture), which draw over 3 million people to the prefecture a year, were popularized in remembrance of Sakanoue no Tamuramaro's campaign to subdue the tribal societies then living in Tōhoku. These annual matsuri are called the Nebuta festival in Aomori City and Neputa festival (ねぷた祭り) in Hirosaki City.

... Tamuramaro is reputedly buried at Shōgun-zuka, and his spirit is said to be guarding Kyoto still; but even if part of that tale is only myth, the recorded final resting place of the old warrior was near the village of Kurisu (Kurisu-mura 栗栖村) in Yamashiro's Uji district.

According to the Shoku Nihongi, an official historical record, The Sakaue clan is descended from Emperor Ling of Han China. And Sakaue clan's family tree shows that Tamuramaro is a 14th-generation descendent of Ling.

© More in the WIKIPEDIA !


Sakanoue no Tamuramaro is known for having founded the

Three - (Six) Kannon Temples in Oshu province 奥州六観音 Oshu Roku Kannon
also called 奥州三観音や6カ寺

to appease the dead bodies of the Emishi burried, and also their "demon deities" 鬼神.
He usually erected mounds for their heads (kubizuka 首塚) and a temple.

奥州三観音 - Three Kannon of Oshu

1 牧山観音(石巻市)- Ishinomaki (Iwate)
2  箟嶽観音(涌谷町)-  Wakuya (Miyagi)
3  富山観音 (松島町)- Matsushima (Miyagi) 

6カ寺 - Six Kannon Temples of Oshu

1 牧山観音(石巻市)- Ishinomaki (Iwate)
2  箟嶽観音(涌谷町)- Wakuya (Miyagi)
3 大武観音(登米市)- Tome (Miyagi) 
4  長谷観音(登米市)- Tome
5 鱒淵観音(登米市)- Tome
6 小迫観音(栗原市)- Kurihara (Miyagi)

- Check this link for further information and photos:
- source : chiyukihirosi.air-nifty.com

. roku Kannon 六観音 six Kannon .


. Chookonji 長根寺 Chokon-Ji - Miyako, Iwate .
The first Yakushi Hall 薬師堂 had been founded by
Sakanoue no Tamuramaro 坂上田村麻呂 in 807.
A bronze bell from this time is still existing. Sakanoue seems to have founded three Kannon temples in Nagane (Chookon) 観音長根.


Fudo Temple 23 達谷西光寺 天台宗 - 姫待不動尊 - Himemachi Fudo
Takkoku Saiko-ji
... Probably the Japanese people in later generations blindly wanted to believe Tamuramaro Sakanoue as a most respectable hero and "Akuo-o" 悪路王 who fought with Sakanoue as an evil figure.
. Himemachi Fudo, Hiraizumi, Iwate .


. Kubizuka, memorial stone pagodas and mounds for the beheaded ... 首塚 .


. beraboo tako ベラボー凧 kite with a face sticking out the tongue .
from Akita, Noshiro 能代市, said to be used by Tamuramaro

One of the most respected leaders of the Emishi and also by Tamuramaro was
Aterui / Akuro-o / Acro-o アテルイ / 阿弖流爲 (? - 802)
Akuro Jin 悪路神 The Deity Akuro

"Tamo-no-kimi Aterui took up the leadership of this resistance. In 789, Aterui defeated a larger force at the Battle of Kitakami River, and remained at-large until 801, when he was defeated by Sakanoue Tamuramaro. Fighting continued until a court edict in 805, with one last campaign in 811, after which the pacification of the area was considered complete by Imperial edict."
. Mutsu 陸奥 in Tohoku 東北 .



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..... the most prominent chief of the Isawa (胆沢) band of Emishi in northern Japan.
Aterui was born in Isawa, Hitakami-no-kuni, what is now Mizusawa Ward of Ōshū City in southern Iwate Prefecture.
"Lord of the Bad Road" (悪路王 Akuro-o).
..... In 802 Tamuramaro returned to Michinoku and built Fort Isawa in the heart of Isawa territory. Then on April 15 he reported the most important success of all in this campaign: The Emishi leaders Aterui and More surrendered with more than 500 warriors. General Sakanoue delivered Aterui and More to the capital on July 10. Despite General Sakanoue's pleadings the government, "...cut them down at Moriyama in Kawachi province." .....
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田村麻呂と阿弖流為 - 古代東北 / 新野直吉 
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The World of Sakanouye No Tamuramaro: Black Shogun of Early Japan
by Runoko Rashidi

“For a Samurai to be brave, he must have a bit of Black blood.”
– Japanese Proverb

... I have always thought of Japan as a fascinating country and felt extremely fortunate to be able to travel there. ...
... Meaningful indications of an African presence in ancient Japan have been unearthed from the most remote ages of the Japanese past. ...

SAKANOUYE NO TAMURAMARO: SEI-I TAI-SHOGUN OF EARLY JAPAN
Of the Black people of early Japan, the most picturesque single figure was Sakanouye no Tamuramaro, a warrior symbolized in Japanese history as a “paragon of military virtues,” and a man who has captured the attention of some of the most distinguished scholars of 20th century America.



Perhaps the first such scholar to make note of Tamuramaro was Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1865-1914). An anthropologist, Chamberlain was born in Kenninghall, Norfolk, England, and was brought to America as a child. In April 1911, the Journal of Race Development published an essay by Chamberlain titled The Contribution of the Negro to Human Civilization. While discussing the African presence in early Asia, Chamberlain stated in an exceptionally frank and matter of fact manner:

“And we can cross the whole of Asia and find the Negro again, for when, in far-off Japan, the ancestors of the modern Japanese were making their way northward against the Ainu, the aborigines of that country, the leader of their armies was Sakanouye Tamuramaro, a famous general and a Negro.”

Dr. W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), perhaps the greatest scholar in American history, in his book, The Negro (first published in 1915), placed Sakanouye Tamuramaro within a list of some of the most distinguished Black rulers and warriors in antiquity.

In 1922, Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) and Charles Harris Wesley (1891-?) in a chapter called Africans in History with Others, in their book, The Negro in Our History, quoted Chamberlain on Tamuramaro verbatim. In the November 1940 issue of the Negro History Bulletin (founded by Dr. Woodson), artist and illustrator Lois Maillou Jones (1905-1998) contributed a brief article titled Sakanouye Tamura Maro.

In the article Jones pointed out that:
“The probable number of Negroes who reached the shores of Asia may be estimated somewhat by the wide area over which they were found on that continent. Historians tell us that at one time Negroes were found in all of the countries of southern Asia bordering the Indian Ocean and along the east coast as far as Japan. There are many interesting stories told by those who reached that distant land which at that time they called "Cipango".
One of the most prominent characters in Japanese history was a Negro warrior called Sakanouye Tamura Maro.”

Very similar themes were expressed in 1946 in In the Orient, the first section of Distinguished Negroes Abroad, a book by Beatrice J. Fleming and Marion J. Pryde in which was contained a small chapter dedicated to
The Negro General of Japan — Sakanouye Tamuramaro.


JAPAN --FUDO MY'O --
PATRON OF THE SAMURAI AND ONE OF THE FIVE WISDOM KINGS IN JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY

In 1940, the great Joel Augustus Rogers (1883-1966), who probably did more to popularize African history than any scholar of the 20th century, devoted several pages of the first volume of his book, Sex and Race to the Black presence in early Japan. He cites the studies of a number of accomplished scholars and anthropologists, and even goes as far as to raise the question, “Were the first Japanese Negroes?”

In the words of Rogers:
“There is a very evident Negro strain in a certain element of the Japanese population, particularly those in the south. Imbert says, ‘The Negro element in Japan is recognizable by the Negroid aspect of certain inhabitants with dark and often blackish skin, frizzly or curly hair. ... The Negritos are the oldest race of the Far East. It has been proved that they once lived in Eastern and Southern China as well as in Japan where the Negrito element is recognizable still in the population.’”

Rogers mentioned Tamuramaro briefly in the first volume of World’s Great Men of Color, also published in 1946. Regrettably, Rogers was forced to confess that “I have come across certain names in China and Japan such as Sakonouye Tamuramaro, the first shogun of Japan, but I did not follow them up.”

Sakanouye Tamuramaro was a warrior symbolized in early Japanese history as a “paragon of military virtues.” Could it be that this was what Dr. Diop was alluding to in his first major book, Nations negres et culture, when he directed our attention to the tantalizing and yet profound Japanese proverb:
For a Samurai to be brave he must have a bit of Black blood.

Adwoa Asantewaa B. Munroe referenced Tamuramaro in the 1981 publication What We Should Know About African Religion, History and Culture, and wrote that “He was an African warrior. He was prominent during the rule of the Japanese Emperor Kwammu, who reigned from 782-806 A.D.” In 1989, Dr. Mark Hyman authored a booklet titled Black Shogun of Japan in which he stated that “The fact remains that Sakanouye Tamuramaro was an African. He was Japanese. He was a great fighting general. He was a Japanese Shogun.”

However, the most comprehensive assessment to date of the Black presence in early Japan and the life of Sakanouye no Tamuramaro is the work of art historian and long-time friend and colleague Dr. James E. Brunson. Brunson is the author of Black Jade: The African Presence in the Ancient East and several other important texts. In a 1991 publication titled The World of Sakanouye No Tamuramaro, Brunson accurately noted that “In order to fully understand the world of Sakanouye Tamuramaro we must focus on all aspects of the African presence in the Far East.”

Sakanouye no Tamuramaro is regarded as an outstanding military commander of the early Heian royal court. The Heian Period (794-1185 C.E.) derives its name from Heian-Kyo, which means “the Capital of Peace and Tranquility,” and was the original name for Japan’s early capital city — Kyoto. It was during the Heian Period that the term Samurai was first used. According to Papinot, the “word comes from the very word samuaru, or better saburau, which signifies: to be on one’s guard, to guard; it applied especially to the soldiers who were on guard at the Imperial palace.”

The samurai have been called the knights or warrior class of Medieval Japan and the history of the samurai is very much the history of Japan itself. For hundreds of years, to the restoration of the Meiji emperor in 1868, the samurai were the flower of Japan and are still idolized by many Japanese. The samurai received a pension from their feudal lord, and had the privilege of wearing two swords. They intermarried in their own caste and the privilege of samurai was transmitted to all the children, although the heir alone received a pension.

The “paragon of military virtues,” Sakanouye no Tamuramaro (758-811) was, in the words of James Murdoch:
“In as sense the originator of what was subsequently to develop into the renowned samurai class, he provided in his own person a worthy model for the professional warrior on which to fashion himself and his character. In battle, a veritable war-god; in peace the gentlest of manly gentlemen, and the simplest and unassuming of men.”

Throughout his career, Tamuramaro was rewarded for his services with high civil as well as military positions. In 797 he was named “barbarian-subduing generalissimo” (Sei-i Tai-Shogun), and in 801-802 he again campaigned in northern Japan, establishing fortresses at Izawa and Shiwa and effectively subjugating the Ainu.

In 810 he helped to suppress an attempt to restore the retired emperor Heizei to the throne. In 811, the year of his death, he was appointed great counselor (dainagon) and minister of war (hyobukyo).

Sakanouye no Tamuramaro “was buried in the village of Kurisu, near Kyoto and it is believed that it is his tomb, which is known under the name of Shogun-zuka. Tamuramaro is the founder of the famous temple Kiyomizu-dera. He is the ancestor of the Tamura daimyo of Mutsu.” Tamuramaro “was not only the first to bear the title of Sei-i-tai-Shogun, but he was also the first of the warrior statesmen of Japan.”

In later ages he was revered by military men as a model commander and as the first recipient of the title shogun — the highest rank to which a warrior could aspire.”
- source : atlantablackstar.com


Sei-i-tai-Shogun 征夷大将軍
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. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 .

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. kinma 木馬(きんま) "wooden horse" amulet from Miharu, Fukushima .

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気仙郡 Kesen district

When Sakanoue no Tamuramaro drove out the demon of this region, the teeth of this Oni were left over.
The boss of the native 蝦夷 Emishi group was called 赤頭 Akagashira.


赤頭 Head of Akagashira

and his oni no kiba 鬼の牙 demon teeth


Tamuramaro built a grave for Akagashira and offered a statue of Kannon Bosatsu to appease his soul. This is now at the temple 竜福山・長谷寺 Hasedera.
When they dug out the grave in 1704, they found 33 teeth in the skull of this Akagashira Oni.
ケセンの鬼の国 Kesen is the land of the Oni.

その昔、赤頭(あかがしら)と呼ばれた蝦夷の首領が気仙郡佐狩郷赤崎小田の地にいて、鎮守府将軍の坂上田村麻呂と一戦を交えた。
その首を埋めた墓上に田村麻呂はお墓を建て十一面観世音菩薩を安置したのが、現在の猪川町である。
竜福山・長谷寺(創建八〇七年)と伝わる。
鬼の歯それから九百年が経った宝永元年(一七〇四)に、寛応法印が寺内から発掘したという赤頭の歯、三十三枚が寺宝として現存している。鬼の牙といわれている。
- reference source : saitoseika.co.jp/adariHP/adariho40 -

. oni no ha 鬼の歯 teeth of an oni / kiba 牙 fangs .

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. Oodakemaru 大嶽丸・大竹丸・大武丸・大猛丸 Odakemaru .
Kijin 鬼神大猛丸 the Demon God Odakemaru alias Aterui アテルイ / 悪路王 Akuro-O / Acro-O 阿弖流爲 (? - 802)
And legneds about the fight with Tamuramaro.

- source : nichibun yokai database -
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. O-Mamori お守り Amulets and Talismans .

. Tsugaru Glas Daruma 津軽のガラス工芸だるま .


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. Saishoo In 最勝院 Saisho-In . - Hirosaki
Nekotsuki Fudo 猫突 Fudo stabbing a Monster Cat

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


. 津軽弘法大師霊場 - Tsugaru Kobo Daishi Reijo
Pilgrimage to 23 Kobo Daishi temples in Tsugaru .



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Tengu and Fudo Myo-o

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Tengu and Fudo Myo-o 天狗と不動明王

Tengu 天狗 "heavenly dogs", mountain goblin
daitengu 大天狗 "big tengu"
karasutengu, karasu tengu 烏天狗 "raven tengu, crow tengu" with a beak like Garuda
. Tengu - 天狗 - Introduction .


All you ever want to know about Tengu
with great illustrations

By Mark Schumacher
Tengu are mountain and forest goblins with both Shinto and Buddhist attributes. Their supernatural powers include shape-shifting into human or animal forms, the ability to speak to humans without moving their mouth, the magic of moving instantly from place to place without using their wings, and the sorcery to appear uninvited in the dreams of the living.
http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/tengu.shtml



Izuna Daigongen 飯網大権現 combines the elements of five deities:
Fudo Myo-o, Karuraten (Garuda, a divine bird), Dakiniten (a demon that feeds on human hearts), Kangiten (a fertility deity with the head of an elephant) and Benzaiten (the deity of water, music and victory in battle).



Some Yamabushi sects interpret Iizuna (Izuna) is the original Japanese form (honji) of Fudo Myo-0, especially at Mt. Takao near Tokyo.

. Izuna Gongen, Iizuna no Gongen 飯網の権現 .

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飯縄不動尊 Izuna Fudo Son



高尾山の飯縄大権現は不動明王の変化身であるとして「飯縄不動尊」
The Izuna Daigongen at Mount Takao used to be called this way.
- reference : www.takaosan.or.jp

. 飯縄大権現 Izuna Daigongen at Mount Takao 高尾山 . - Tokyo

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. 関東三十六不動霊場
Pilgrimage to 36 Fudo Temples in Kanto / Bando .




34 Hooshoo-In 宝勝院 Hosho-In - Isumi Fudo 夷隅不動
夷隅郡夷隅町苅谷307 - 307 Kariya, Isumi, Chiba

Sainosan 幸野山 Shoo-oo-Ji 聖王寺 Sho-O-Ji

聖王寺 Sho-O-Ji founded around 1570 by the Mino Tokishi clan 美濃土岐氏 to protect the castle 万木城 Mangi-Jo. It is strongly related to the belief of the Star Deity Myoken 妙見信仰.
宝勝院 Hosho-in founded around 1570 by 什俊



- Chant of the temple

幸野(みゆきの)の 原に坐します 不動尊
萬喜(まんぎ)の城の 病門の除




- source : wiki.ten-chi-jin.org

. 宝勝院 Hosho-In 夷隅不動尊 Isumi Fudo Son .
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赤青の天狗面 Mask of the red and blue tengu



Tengu is said to be a kind of shooting star (流れ星 nagareboshi) as a bad omen for the near future but also possess miraculous power to help against it.
This might be the connection between Tengu and Fudo in the Star cult of Japan.

Other temples where Izuna Fudo Son 飯縄不動尊 is venerated are
Izuna-Ji 飯縄寺、三光寺、安養寺、Izuna Jinja 飯縄神社

At the hall 江場土の日在山金毘羅堂 there is a large pine tree where a tengu is said to have taken a midday nap. So the belief in Tengu in this part of Chiba is quite strong, especially related to the Mino Tokishi clan 美濃土岐氏.

- reference : pub.ne.jp/kayusou


土岐氏(ときし)は、
鎌倉時代から江戸時代にかけて栄えた武家。本姓は源氏。清和天皇を祖とする清和源氏の一流である摂津源氏の流れを汲む美濃源氏の嫡流として美濃国を中心に栄えた。
。。。更に頼芸は上総万喜城(現在の千葉県いすみ市 Chiba Isumi town)のこちらも分流である土岐為頼を頼った(上総の土岐氏も小田原征伐に際し領地を失い滅亡した)。
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Isumi Kariya Fudo Son 夷隅苅谷不動尊





- source : facebook Ishii Yasuyuki san


The main statue of a seated Fudo is secret and placed in the 不動堂 Fudo-Do Hall.
People come here to pray for anzan 安産祈願 easy childbirth and ningyo kuyo 人形供養 to bring old dolls to rest.


The relationship of Fudo Myo-O and Myoken is not quite clear.

. Myoken Bosatsu 妙見菩薩 .

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Maybe Fudo as the protector of the Heike clan (Narita san) got into a fight with Myoken of the Mino Tokishi clan 美濃土岐 ?

平家一族と、成田山と 不動明王様と、妙見菩薩様が喧嘩 ?
- source : ameblo.jp/spikidori


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Zennishi Dooji 善爾師童子 Zennishi Doji


source : m441618.seesaa.net/article

. The 36 Attendants of Fudo Myo-O 三十六童子 Sanjuroku Doji .



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Sarutahiko no Ookami 猿田彦大神 the Great Deity Sarutahiko



猿田彦は天狗の祖と言われている.
Sarutahiko is the ancestor of the Tengu.
In fact, Gyooman Daimyoojin 行満大明神 Gyoman Daimyojin is said to be the first ancestor of Shugendo and ancestor of Sarutahiko.
- reference : kemono666.seesaa.net


SARUTAHIKO, SARUTABIKO, SAURTAHIKO-NO-KAMI
猿田彦, 猿田彦神. Commonly translated as "monkey man."
The long-nosed Shintō deity of the crossroads who takes on the visage of a monkey; also considered by some to be the ancestor of the long-nosed Tengu mountain goblin.
- source and more : Mark Schumacher



source : www.tsubaki.or.jp
猿田彦大神

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Sarutahiko
A kami who went out to the "eight crossroads of heaven" to meet and act as guide to the heavenly grandchild Ninigi at the time of his descent (tenson kōrin). Sarutahiko was described as having a fantastic appearance, with a nose seven spans long, a height of over seven feet, and with eyes that glowed red like a mirror. Since the female kami Ame no uzume volunteered to confront Sarutahiko, Ninigi granted to her the clan title Sarume no Kimi.

After acting as guide to Ninigi, Sarutahiko arrived at the upper reaches of the Isuzu River in Ise, where Kojiki records that his hand became trapped inside a large clam at Azaka, and he thus drowned. He is considered the ancestor of the Ujitoko clan in Ise, and the central object of worship (saijin) at the Sarutahiko Shrine located in Ise. During the Tokugawa period, he was also adopted as the "ancestor of the teaching" in the school of Suika Shinto.
- source : Kadoya Atsushi, Kokugakuin 2005


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Monkey Year 2016 (Sarutahiko Jinja)
The small shrine of Sarutahiko Jinja is not very well known and its set in the north-west in an unprepossessing part of Kyoto, sadly surrounded by some of the city’s uglier urban conglomeration. Nonetheless it possesses one of the most striking features in this year of the monkey, namely a statue of a white monkey carved in 1989 from a branch of the shrine’s sacred tree (shinboku).



. . . . . The shrine’s ema shows the three wise monkeys
– speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil.
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. Saru 申 / 猿 monkey talismans .

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. Sarutahiko Densetsu 猿田彦 伝説 Sarutahiko Legends .

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. Tengupedia - 天狗ペディア - Tengu ABC-List .

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

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東京都 Tokyo

In the temple 小石川伝通院山内 Koishikawa Dentsu-In lived a person named 岱雄 Taio. One day he went out begging with the monks but did not come back. Two days later they found him fainted in the back of the dormitory. When he came back to himself, he told the following story. When he wanted to make an offering, his body suddenly became light and he took off to the sky. Then he went to 成田不動 Narita Fudo to pray, spent some time between the woods talking to some Tengu who wanted to do Sumo wrestling with him. They gave him food and kept him for seven days.
The Tengu had also told him if he wanted to come back to them, he should face East to Narita and think of Fudo Myo-O, then they would come and fetch him again and give his some presents from Narita.

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天狗 Tengu

Once upon a time, 一条頼重 Ichijo Yorishige made a wish and was told to go to 鞍馬の奥 the mountain temple of Kurama. He went there, sat in the 不動堂 Fudo-Do Hall and practised Zazen. Suddenly some Tengu appeared and tried to disturb him. Finally the Head Priest came to chase them away and oh wonder - they flew of as a group of black birds.


Kurama Fudo-Do Hall

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滋賀県 Shiga 甲賀郡 Koga district 信楽町 Shigaraku

One of the disciples of the temple 不動寺 Fudo-Ji did not show up for the rituals.
The others took bells and drums and went to look for him. They found him on the road to 石薬師伊勢道 Ishiyakushi, Ise, hanging on a tree, dead.
This must have been the act of a Tengu.

. Ishi Yakushi 石薬師 "Stone Yakushi" .
Ishiyakushiji 石薬師寺 Temple Ishiyakushi-Ji

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栃木県 Tochigi 日光市 Nikko

At the waterfall 裏見滝 Urami no Taki, one of the 下野国日光山四十八滝 48 waterfalls of Nikko, there is Fudo Myo-O to be seen, and people who are able to see him stay in deep veneration.
But people with impurities who come here will loose their live to the Tengu of Nikko.

. Nikko 日光 Many Tengu from Nikko, Gunma .
日光山東光坊 - Tengu Tokobo / 妙義山日光坊 Tengu Nikkobo
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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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. Four-word Zen Teachings 四字禅語 yoji zengo .

. Fudaishi 傅大士 Fu Daishi, Fu Ta-Shi, Budaishi . - (c. 490 – c. 560)
a Chinese Buddhist monk who was later deified as the Japanese patron deity of Buddhist libraries.
kyōzō (経蔵), kyōko (経庫), kyōdō (経堂), zōden (蔵殿). rinzō (輪蔵)


. Fudaraku 二荒 and shrine 二荒山神社 Futarasan Nikko .
Potala Paradise


. Fudō Myō-ō 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O .
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