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2016/04/13

senshin cleansing the heart

source : rakuten.co.jp/ikata47/diary

Many visitors of our GokuRakuAn hermitage and the Daruma-Do stand in the garden overlooking the Mandala Valley, saying

Kokoro ga arawareru naaa 心が洗われるなーーー
The heart / mind gets purified just looking at the scene here !

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洗心 -“washing” (or "inquiring into”) the “heart”
Senshin "cleansing the mind"

一掬洗心（一掬いの水は心を清める)
at the Rikyu Hachimangu (formerly Iwashimizu Hachimangu) from 1634
by 林羅山 Hayashi Razan
- reference : rikyuhachiman.org/temizuhachi -

- - - - - Thanks for the inspiration to the PMJS group
and more discussion about the subject
- source : groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pmjs -

source : mickeyclub.seesaa.net

不忍池 Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, Bentenjima

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Kokoro Ga Arawareru Budda No Kotoba
- reference : Liberal Sha / Henshu -

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達磨寺の洗心池の擬宝珠かな
Darumaji no senshin-ike no giboshi kana

the Giboshi flowers
at the Senshin Pond
of this Daruma Temple . . .

手島南天 Tejima Nanten

source : fmbo.blog84.fc2.com/blog-entry-1310

. gibooshi ギボウシ（擬宝珠） Hosta fortunei .
A mountain vegetable (sansai)
- kigo for spring -

There is also a rest place called 洗心亭 at some Daruma temples.

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繰り返すのみの洗心薫風過ぐ
香西照雉

日曜は洗心のとき梅もどき
井沢正江

洗心の一刻を措く初硯
西岡伸実

source : mayumiの一言メモメモ

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- 洗心 - To cleanse the heart / mind with some Sake !

「洗心」とは初心に戻り、人を尊びきらめき生きる様を言います。
- source : asahi-shuzo.co.jp -

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2016/03/30

Ishi Yakushi Stone

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Ishi Yakushi 石薬師 "Stone Yakushi" and Yakushi Ishi 薬師石 "Yakushi Stone
Kasagidera 笠置寺 Kasagi-Dera Kyoto

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Ishiyakushiji 石薬師寺 Temple Ishiyakushi-Ji
1 Ishiyakushicho, Suzuka, Mie

Founded by priest Taichoo 泰澄 Taicho (681 - 767) in the Nara period. When Taicho walked here in 726, there was a groaning in the ground and a huge stone appeared. He realized that this was The Buddha of Healing trying to have a temple here to help the people.
In 796 Kobo Daishi Kukai came here and carved a statue of Yakushi.
In 1575 the buildings burned down, but was built anew in 1601 by priest 円賢法印 Enken with the support of the Lord of Kobe, 一柳監物直盛 Hitotsuyanagi Kenmotsu Naomori (1564 - 1636).

People come here to pray for good health, and also for the well-being of the family and protection from disasters.

- - - - - Pilgrim Temple at :
西国薬師第三十三番霊場 - 33 Yakushi Temples in Saikoku
三重四国番外霊場 - Mie-Shikoku Bangai Pilgrims Temples
鈴鹿七福神恵比寿霊場 - Seven Deities of Good Luck in Suzuka

- - - - - HP of the temple
- source : geocities.jp/ishiyakushiji -

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Officially, this temple is called Takatomiyama Ruriko-in Ishiyakushi-ji.
Legend has it that the temple got its name from the presence there of an image of Yakushi, the Healing Buddha, carved into a rock by Kukai (774-835), a celebrated Buddhist priest also known as Kobo Daishi.
A farming village nestles in the bosom of mountains depicted in gradations of three different tints ? indigo blue, black and green. In this landscape, the temple stands quietly among the trees. Two men carrying bundles hurry along the road leading to the temple gateway while farmers work in a dry rice field dotted with stacks of straw. These human figures, meticulously depicted, eloquently portray the idyllic aspect of rural life.
- source : tokaido53tsugi.omd-net.com -

- - - Hiroshige 広重

. The 53 stations of the Tokaido Road 東海道五十三次 .
44. Ishiyakushi-juku 石薬師宿 (Suzuka)

It is located in former Ise Province in what is now part of the city of Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan.
It received its name from the nearby Buddhist temple, Ishiyakushi-ji.
Ishiyakushi-juku was established in 1616, as part of the Edo period's Tōkaidō. Originally, there had been no post stations between Yokkaichi-juku and Kameyama-juku, so Ishiyakushi-juku was formed with about 180 buildings at its inception. The Ozawa family managed the honjin in the town and kept many records, which are still available today in a local archives museum.
The classic ukiyoe print by Ando Hiroshige (Hoeido edition) from 1831-1834 depicts the temple in a grove of trees on the left and a village on the right, with a range of hills in the background.
- source : wikipedia -

. Taichō 泰澄上人　Saint Taicho Shonin / Taicho-Daishi 泰澄大師 .
Etsu no Daitoku 越の大徳 - Great Man of Virtue from Etsu
Unpen Shoonin 雲遍上人 Saint Unpen Shonin
Shiramine Daisoojo 天狗白峰大僧正 Tengu Shiramine Daisojo

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Yakushi-Ishi, Yakushiishi 薬師石　Yakushi Stone

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Kasagidera 笠置寺 Kasagi-Dera and Pagoda
京都府相楽郡笠置町大字笠置小字笠置山29 Kyoto, Kasagiyama / Kasagizan

A stone relief of 弥勒磨崖仏 Miroku Magaibutsu

source : 8mada.at.webry.info/201504
薬師石　Yakushi Ishi

There are two big rocks involved in the naming of Kasagiyama and the temple.
When the son of Emperor Tenji Tenno 天智天皇 (626 - 671) passed here while hunting for shika 鹿 deer, he got stuck on top of the rock 薬師石 Yakushi-Ishi.
He prayed to Yama no Kami 山の神, the Deity of the Mountain :
"If you save my life, I will have the figure of 弥勒菩薩 Mikoku Bosatsu carved in this stone."
With the help of the deity he made his way back to safety.
And not ever to forget this place again, he oki 置　placed his kasa 笠 hat on a stone in the middle.

笠置 reads kasaoki "to place a hat", now shortened to Kasagi-dera.

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Short history of Kasagi Dera ( Kasagi Temple )
Kasagi Dera has a long history. About 2000 years ago, the big rocks of Kasagi Yama (Mt. Kasagi, 288 m)) were regarded as religious symbols by the people. Years ago, a part of a Yuhi-style stone sword was found in front of one of the big rocks. This particular kind of stone sword presumed to have been used in the Yayoi Period.

About 1300 years ago, people gradually settled in the Kasagi Yama area. In the years that followed, Jiichu Wajou ( Priest Jiichu ) of Toudaiji Temple and his master Ryouben Soujou ( Great Priest Ryouben ) carved the images of Buddha on the face of the big rocks. Kasagi Yama became very famous as the heart of learning Buddhism.

During the Heian Period, after Eisho 7 ( the 7th year of Eisho, in 1052), Mappo Shisou (the concept of Mappo 末法思想) spread all over Japan. Mappo Shisou is one of the Buddhist theories:2000 years after the death of Buddha, everything in the world will become worse and worse. The people of that time thought that the Mappo Period would begin in 1052. And the images of Buddha on the big rock in Kasagi Yama ( these images of Buddha are called Magaibutsu ) became the symbol of Buddhism among the people. At that time, these images were thoght to have been carved by God. Kasagi Yama became the place for spiritual training.
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On August 27th in Genkou 1 ( the 1st year of Genkou, in 1331 ), Emperor Go Daigo 後醍醐天皇, who attempted to usurp power from the Kamakura shougunate but failed, escaped into Kasagi Dera. For about a month, these was a battle between Emperor Go Daigo and the Kamakura shougunate (Kasagiyama no Tatakai 笠置山の戦い Siege of Mount Kasagiyama). At the end, Emperor Go Daigo lost and retreated to Yoshino Yama. Only the burnt ruins of Kasagi Dera remained.
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In Meiji 9 ( the 9th year of Meiji, in 1876 ), Jouei Wajou (Prist Wajou ) began to live in Kasagi Dera. He tried to rebuild the temple. After 20 years, his efforts fulfilled, Kasagi Dera was restored at last.
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- - - - - HP of the temple 鹿鷺山笠置寺 Shikasagizan Kasagidera
- source : kir.jp/kasagidera.html -

source : nichibun.ac.jp/meisyozue

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Kasagi Kaido 笠置街道 Kasagi Highway
From 伊賀上野 Iga Ueno to 笠置山 Kasagiyama.

Part of the
伊賀越奈良道 Igagoe Naramichi Road crossing Iga to Nara
From Ise to 伊賀国上野 Iga Ueno, including access to the
大和街道 Yamato Kaido, 伊賀街道 Iga Kaido, 奈良街道 Nara Kaido.

Legends from 誓多林町 Setarin cho town

shiroshika, hakuroku 白鹿 white deer
On the Northern clif along 新笠置街道 the new Kasagi Kaido there are two large foot imprints in the rock.
They say they are the hooves from the white deer which the deity 春日明神 Kasugai Myojin rode on his way to 鹿島 Kashima.
Another legend relates these imprints to a huge 天狗 Tengu.
Once a wicked Tengu stole 太鼓 the big drum from the temple hall 誓多林堂 Setarin Do. He had hung the drum on a branch of 松の木 a pine tree and banged on it.
The blood of the Tengu still sticks to the drum, they say.

. Kaido 街道 the highways of Japan .
. hakuroku 白鹿 white deer, white stag .
. matsu 松と伝説 Legends about the pine tree / 松の木 .
. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .

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Daisoojoo 笠置山大僧正 - Daisojo, Kasagizan

One of the
. 四十八天狗 48 Tengu of Japan .

According to then temple legends, during the Kamakura Period there lived an oni 鬼　Monster at this mountain, called
笠置大僧正 Kasagizan Daisojo.

There lived also a saint called Gedatsu Shoonin, Shōnin 解脱上人 Gedatsu Shonin on this mountain.

. Gedatsu Shoonin, Shōnin 解脱上人 Saint Gedatsu Shonin .
Jōkei 貞慶 Jokei (1155 - 1212)

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- further reference -

. Godaigo, Go-Daigo-tennō 後醍醐天皇 - Emperor Go-Daigo .

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笠置路に俤描く桃青忌
Kasagi ji ni omokage egaku Toosei ki

along the Kasagi road
there are traces of the past -
Green Peach Day

. 高浜虚子 Takahama Kyoshi (1874 - 1959).

. Toosei ki 桃青忌 "Green Peach Memorial Day" for Matsuo Basho .
- kigo for early winter -

葛の崖笠置の山は上に在りと
高浜年尾 Takahama Toshio

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薬師石　Yakushi Ishi

Standing before this stone memorial, silently just praying intensely to get better - will heal a person.

- source : dora-moon/entry

at 達磨寺 Daruma-Ji, Ooji, Nara
奈良県北葛城郡王寺町

. Darumaji 達磨寺 Daruma-Ji temples of Japan .

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Hyogo, 神戸市 Kobe 東灘区 Higashinada ward

. Yakushi Ishi 薬師石 A Yakushi Stone Legend .
and 石薬師 an Ishi Yakushi Legend from Shiga, Shigaraki 信楽町

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From Murakami Onsen Hot Spring, Niigata Radium-Stones
新潟県五頭温泉郷「村杉温泉」産ラジウム鉱石 / 薬師石
日本薬石研究所 Yakuseki Kenkyujo
- reference : yakuseki-shop.jp/SHOP -

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. Yakushi Nyorai Pilgrimages 薬師霊場巡り - Introduction .

. O-Mamori お守り　Amulets and Talismans .

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2015/12/12

Yamanaka Yakushi Gifu

It is also known as
mushifuuji no Yakushi 虫封じの薬師 "Yakushi warding off the three worms".

The old buildings were lost in fire and it was reconstructed by the Jodo sect in 1544.

Visitors and pilgrims come from all parts of Japan.
The main statue of Yakushi was carved by 行基 Gyoki.

It is also known for its medicine to heal wounds, the 狐膏薬 Fox Medicine.

The main lodging of Ochiai village is run by the 本陣井口家 Iguchi family.
It is said a traveller was told the secret of the medicine by the deity 秋葉大明神 Akiba Daimyojin.

. mushifuuji 虫封じ amulets to ward off the "Three Worms" .

. Akiba Gongen 秋葉権現 the Akiba Deity .

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There is also a memorial stone with a haiku by Matsuo Basho in the back garden:

ume ga ka ni notto hi no deru yamaji kana
. 梅が香にのっと日の出る山路かな .

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One of the three great Yakushi temples of Japan 日本三薬師:

. Hooraiji 鳳来寺 Horai-Ji Yakushi, Mikawa, Aichi .

. Kani Yakushi 蟹薬師 "Crab Yakushi" at 願興寺 Ganko-Ji . - Gifu

. Yamanaka Yakushi 山中薬師 - 瑠璃山医王寺　Rurisan Io-Ji . - Gifu

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中津川 Nakatsugawa was a postal station along the 中山道 Nakasendo Road. On the road toward Magome was the next station, the small hamlet of 落合 Ochiai.

山中薬師の狐膏薬伝説 Yamanaka Yakushi and the legend of the Fox Medicine

ズイトンさんの狐膏薬 The legend of Zuiton san and the Fox Medicine

Once upon a time
there lived an old monk at the temple, called ズイトンさん Zuiton san.
Once he was working in the garden when a fox appeared who looked rather painful. When he picked him up, he saw a large thorn in the leg of the fox. Zuiton san pulled it out and the fox suddenly seemed to smile at Zuiton san. Then he walked back into the mountain forest.

A few evenings later
he heard a sound at the entrance door and when he opened he saw the fox. The fox wanted to show his gratitude by teaching Zuiton san how to make good medicine cream.

まず、マムシグサの根っこのまあるい奴をすり潰す。そこへオオバコの種とキツネノマゴの葉をすり潰して混ぜる。次はモーチを入れて良く練り合わせる。それと油を布切れに塗り付けて、痛いところに張れば、たちどころに痛みが取れます.

(Other versions talk about the fox appearing in the dream of Zuiton san, teaching him.)
Zuiton san made the cream as told and put some on his back, which always hurt him. And in no time his pain was healed. Zuiton san was overjoyed.

He put up a sign 御夢想狐こうやく (Fox Medicine given in a Dream) and began to sell it. The villagers came and soon buyers from other parts of Japan showed up in a never-ending row.

In a similar legend, a fox in the disguise of a running messenger 飛脚 taught how to make the medicine, then called
Tokusan no kitsune kooyaku 徳さんの狐膏薬

source and more photos : saikoro0438/nakasendo

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- reference : ja-higashimino.or.jp/book -

. kitsune densetsu 狐　伝説 fox legends .
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Ochiai-juku (落合宿 Ochiai-juku) was the forty-fourth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō.

It is located in the present-day city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The honjin and the sub-honjin, as well as some old street lights, remain from the Edo period. The Honjin were the main rest areas in old post towns and very few remain today.
There are ten hills that must be traversed to get to Ochiai-juku from the preceding post town of Magome-juku.
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. Nakasendō　中山道 The Nakasendo Road .

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2015/06/10

Four Word Zen Teachings

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Four-word Zen Teachings 四字禅語 yoji zengo

. Koan and Haiku 公案と俳句 .
- Introduction -

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四字禅語集 100 Zen Teachings in Four Words

shooken 正見（しょうけん）
shooyui 正思惟（しょうしゆい）　
shoogo 正語（しょうご）
shoogoo 正業（しょうごう）
shoomyoo 正命（しょうみょう）
shooshoojin 正精進（しょうしょうじん）
shoonen 正念（しょうねん）
shoojoo 正定（しょうじょう）

- - - - - extensive resource in Japanese
- source : 四字禅語集

Japanese-English Glossary of Zen Terms
Compiled by Gábor Terebess
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A55
泥多佛大（どろおおければほとけだいなり）
doro ookereba hotoke dai nari

時々、不思議な意味を持つ言葉に出遭う。この「泥多ければ佛大なり」もその分野に入る言葉である。泥とは煩悩であり、煩悩が多ければそれだけ悟りも大きいと言っている。私達は佛になるのには、煩悩という迷いを持っていてはいけないと理解している。この理解を土台ごとひっくりかえしてしまう言葉である。佛教では、迷いが多いということは、それだけ努力しているのだと考える。自分の欠点に気づくということは、それを直したい自分があるということである。迷いや煩悩がないということは、自分に対しての反省もないのである。私達は物事に失敗したときは、何故失敗したのだろうかと、反省をする。そして「不運」とか「幸運」という言葉にいき当たる。私が失敗したのは不運だった。彼が成功したのは幸運だったという言葉である。しかし、待ってください。
「不運だ」「不幸だ」と嘆いても、人間の都合で勝手に善いものと悪いものに振り分けているのだ。自分を中心とした身勝手な嘆きといえる。結局、「不運」「不幸」も私達自身の心が作り出した「幻影」に過ぎないのである。自分で作り出した「幻影」に腹を立て、イライラしているようである。幻影に惑わされない方法如何なるものかと、考えを進めなければならない。一言で言うと「感謝」という言葉に代表される。血気盛んな青春時代は、自分を中心に世の中が回っていると思っている。社会へ出て、一つ一つ壁にぶち当たり、、挫折しなければ、本当の意味の感謝は理解出来ないであろう。皆のおかげで自分が存在していること、目に見えない「ご縁」に対しても感謝が出来る心を持ちたいものである。

doro ookereba hotoke dai nari
mizu maseba fune takashi

Much mud will make a larger Buddha
with much water your boat will ride high.

The One Taste of Truth: Zen and the Art of Drinking Tea
By William Scott Wilson
Mud and water here symbolize adversity. The more clay or mud, the bigger and more impressive the Buddhist statue will be; as water increases, your boat will ride high above the river bottom. Thus, the more your confusion, the more your despair (if you continue and work hard), the deeper your enlightenment, the more exquisite your skills will be.
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身心脱落とは坐禅なり
Dropping off body and mind is zazen.

Skeleton Performing Zazen on Waves, Maruyama Okyo
(Daijoji Temple, Hyogo, Japan)

Ōkyo’s “Skeleton”, Not Performing Zazen;
Reflections on the Iconography of the Daijōji’s kyakuden
Beatrice Shoemaker
Ōkyo's "Skeleton" may have been the first anatomically accurate skeleton depicted in a lotus position, but skeletons had a long and bifurcated history in Japanese iconology. Ōkyo's innovative depiction rested on shasei, the realism he adopted from rangaku, Western studies [...]. Until the first officially authorised dissection of a human corpse, performed in Kyoto in 1754 by the physician Yamawaki Tōyō, published as the Zōshi 蔵志 Anatomical Record in 1759, knowledge of human anatomy had rested exclusively on Chinese medical treatises. [...]
The visual dissonance between the naturalistic skeleton and the traditional, Song inspired waves would have shocked the non-metropolitan viewer, who might not have easy access to Sugita Denpaku's Kaitai Shinsho [another rangaku anatomical work]. Ōkyo effectively uses the latest scientific findings to represent what is left once all that is transient, from human passions to the various processes of aging, disease and decay, have been stripped away.
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2015/05/20

Yakushi Legends Tokyo

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru
Legends from Tokyo / Edo 　東京 - 江戸と薬師さん　
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Tako Yakushi 蛸薬師 Octopus Yakushi 　

Spelled 多幸薬師 TA KO Yakushi for a lot of happiness and good luck.

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. Kinegawa Yakushi 木下川薬師　Yakushi from Kinegawa .
- Kigegawa Yakushi Engi - misspelling of Kinegawa

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三宅島三宅村 Mitake Island

Yakushi Sama no kara neko 薬師様のカラ猫

When a child cries and mother does not know what to do about it, she tells it
"Here comes the karaneko cat of Yakushi Sama!".
、薬師様のカラ猫だぞ

karaneko 唐猫 ?

. Neko Yakushi 猫薬師 Yakushi Nyorai and the Cat .

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. Tako Yakushi 目黒の蛸薬師 Octopus Yakushi in Meguro, Edo .
多幸薬師 TA KO Yakushi for a lot of happiness and good luck

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- - - - - and one more Tako Yakushi in Kyoto

Tako Yakushidō (Octopus Yakushi Hall), Eifukuji Temple 永福寺 (lit. = Temple of Eternal Fortune), Kyoto
浄瑠璃山林秀院永福寺 - 京都市中京区新京極蛸薬師東側町５０３

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The temple originally stood in Nijo Muromachi and was founded in 1181. The engi, retold in the temple's pamphlet, informs believers about the miraculous origins of the temple.

In the Muromachi ward of Kyoto lived a rich man who shaved his head and sought his refuge in the Yakushi Buddha of Enryakuji on Mt Hiei 比叡山. Year after year, he made monthly pilgrimages to this Buddha. But as the years went by, he became old and weak, and one day, he spoke in front of the Yakushi Buddha:

"I am getting too old to continue my practice of monthly pilgrimages. Please let me have your image to place in my home, Lord Yakushi!"

After uttering this wish, the devout believer descended from Mt Hiei. That night, the Yakushi Buddha appeared to him in a dream and spoke: "In a certain place, a stone Yakushi statue carved by St Dengyo 伝教大師 [i.e. Saicho 最澄, the founder of Enryakuji and Tendai Buddhism] himself has been buried. You can take that home."

Full of joy, the next day the wealthy man climbed the mountain and when he dug in the indicated spot he indeed found a holy image hewn from stone that emitted a wondrous light.

He took this image home and built a hall of six by four bays for it. This temple was called Eifukuji, or Temple of Eternal Bliss, and it greatly flourished and young and old, men and women, flocked in great numbers to the temple to pay their respects.

In the Kencho period (1249-56)　of Emperor Gofukakusa　後深草天皇 (1243 - 1304) there lived a monk called Zenko 善光 in this temple. It happened at one time that his mother fell ill. Although he took good care of her, she did not recover and spoke from her bed to Zenko: "If only I could eat some octopus (tako タコ), I like that so much from since I was young, that my illness might get better!"

Zenko was not allowed to buy octopus, a living being, for a meal because he was a Buddhist monk and therefore he was greatly distressed. Still, the thought of his sick mother was stronger than his awe for the precepts, so he took a wooden box in his arms and went to the market to find an octopus.

When he walked back, some people became suspicious that he, a monk, had bought a living creature for food and they followed him all the way to the gate of his temple, pressing him to show what was in the box. Zenko could not refuse and prayed with all his heart to the Lord Buddha: "I have only bought this octopus to help my mother recover from her illness. Lord Yakushi, please help me out of this difficulty!"

When he opened the box, the eight-legged octopus had been transformed into a set of eight sutra scrolls お経の巻物 and a light shone from them in all four directions.

The people who saw this all pressed their hands together in prayer and sang the praises of the Lord Yakushi, the Buddha of the Lapis Lazuli Paradise.

Strangely enough, the scriptures turned again into an octopus who then jumped into the pond in front of the temple where he changed into the form of the Yakushi Buddha. He emitted a green Lapis Lazuli light and when this struck the head of Zenko's mother her illness was immediately healed. She rose from her bed and in a loud voice sang the praises of the Lapis Lazuli Buddha, over and over again.

Thus the temple came to be known as Octopus Yakushi. From then on, when people visited and prayed for relief from illness, they immediately were healed; when women prayed for children, they were blessed with offspring; and all difficulties and problems were eliminated.

This reached the ears of His Majesty the Emperor and in 1441 the temple received an Imperial License. Since then prayers have been said here for bountiful harvests, the Emperor's long life, and the peace of the nation. When one prays ardently for divine protection, no wish is left unfulfilled: in the present world the seven ills are immediately dispelled and the seven blessings immediately granted.
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To our day, the octopus is featured at the temple at the Yakushi Hall 蛸薬師堂
to rub for healing.

nade Yakushi　なで薬師　Yakishi to be rubbed

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ema 絵馬 votive tablets
ema 絵馬 votive tablets
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oboosan to tako お坊さんとタコ The priest and the octopus

Once upon a time
a priest on a trip was walking along the beach, when suddenly a large octopus came out of the waves and pleaded "Please let me be your student"!
So the priest took the octopus out of the water and carried it with him on his trip.

By nightfall the priest had completely lost his way. To ask for a shelter he knocked at a farmhouse. The owner was a man with bitter face, but when he realized the priest was carrying a delicious-looking octopus, he let them in.

While the priest was chanting the sutras for Yakushi Nyorai, the farmer prepared a very hot bath and tried to throw the octopus in it. Just at that time the priest interrupted his chanting with a loud shout of "Pay Attention"「喝！」 KATSU! and the clever octopus made his escape from the hot bath, while the farmer looked quite perplexed.
Next morning the priest and his octopus companion continued their trip safely.

The farmer, who had not gotten his delicious boiled octopus last night, was mubemling to himself and then tried to get into the hot bath himself. Just then - out of the bathtub came the large legs of an octopus and tired to suck at the body of the farmer.
This octopus was in fact Yakushi Nyorai, to whom the priest had prayed the night before.
Yakushi San begun to suck out all the bad intentions of the man's heart and attitude.

The farmer became quite a gentle caring man, after Yakushi san had sucked out his all maliciuos intentions.
And the trip of the priest and his octopus companion continued.

source :　hinoki-diary.blogspot.jp

delicious Tako wafers with sweet filling 明石銘菓：たこ最中

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kuruma kaeshi no O-Yakushi san 車返のお薬師さん Yakushi who brought the car to a stop

In the time of the Kamakura Shogunate 鎌倉幕府 (1192 - 1333) they were transporting the statue of Yakushi Nyorai お薬師さん from 奥州平泉 Hiraizumi far away in Tohoku to Kamakura.
On their way, when they passes Shiraito 白糸の地, the cart suddenly became very heavy and did not move any more.
So the drivers decided to leave the statue here and built a small Hall for it.
They say that Yakushi had choosen this region of Shiraito for his stay.

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Repairing a Yakushi statue from the Edo period

薬師如来立像（江戸時代）の現状・保存修復
http://buddha-statue.at.webry.info/200901/article_1.html

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Monsters, legends and Yakushi 妖怪データベース
- source : nichibun yokai database

- source : manga nihon mukashibanashi -

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2015/04/03

Yakushipedia - ABC Index

[ . Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 Bhaisajyaguru . ]
. Yakushi Nyorai Legends 薬師如来 .
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Yakushipedia ABC-Index 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai Bhaisajyaguru
the Buddha of Medicine and Healing

- source : Shin Yakushi-Ji 新薬師寺

- - - - - My friend Mark Schumacher has all the details.
Yakushi Nyorai - YAKUSHI TATHĀGATA
Yakushi’s full name is Yakushi-rurikō 薬師瑠璃光,
Lord of the Eastern Paradise of Pure Lapis Lazuli
Medicine Master of Lapis Lazuli Radiance.
Introducing the features of Yakushi Nyorai, the important statues and temples.

Medicine Master Buddha:
The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan

Yui Suzuki
This profusely illustrated volume illuminates the primacy of icons in disseminating the worship of the Medicine Master Buddha (J: Yakushi Nyorai) in Japan. Suzuki’s meticulous study explicates how the devotional cult of Yakushi, one of the earliest Buddhist cults imported to Japan from the continent, interacted and blended with local beliefs, religious dispositions, and ritual practices over the centuries, developing its own distinctive imprint on Japanese soil. Worship of the Medicine Master Buddha became most influential during the Heian period (794–1185), when Yakushi’s popularity spread to different levels of society and locales outside the capital. The large number of Heian-period Yakushi statues found all across Japan demonstrates that Yakushi worship was an integral component of Heian religious practice.

Medicine Master Buddha focuses on the ninth-century Tendai master Saichō (767–822) and his personal reverence for a standing Yakushi icon. The author proposes that, after Saichō’s death, the Tendai school played a critical role in popularizing the cult of this particular icon as a way of memorializing its founding master and strengthening its position as a major school of Japanese Buddhism. This publication offers a fresh perspective on sculptural representations of the Medicine Master Buddha (including the famous Jingoji Yakushi), and in so doing, reconsiders Yakushi worship as foundational to Heian religious and artistic culture.
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日本三大薬師 / 日本三薬師 the three most famous Yakushi temples in Japan

薬師寺 Nara, 日向薬師 Hinata Yakushi, 会津の勝常寺 Aizu, Shoji-Ji
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Kani Yakushi 蟹薬師 "Crab Yakushi" - Yamanaka Yakushi 山中薬師 - Gifu
and 三河の鳳来寺 Horai-Ji - Mikawa, Aichi

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. Akaidake Yakushi 閼伽井嶽薬師 - 常福寺 Jofuku-Ji, Fukushima

Amulets for Eye Diseases 眼病　Yakushi Nyorai healing - Tokyo

. Ana Yakushi Kofun 穴薬師古墳 .
- Yakushi-ana 薬師穴 Yakushi cave / ana no Yakushi 穴の薬師　Yakushi with holes

. Arai Yakushi Baisho-In 新井薬師梅照院 .

budoo Yakushi葡萄薬師 Budo Yakushi, Grapes Yakushi- Yamanashi

. bokeyoke Yakushi ぼけ除け薬師 to prevent dementia .

Daigiji 大義寺 Daigi-Ji / Taigi-Ji - Tama Henro pilgrimage

. Enku 円空 Yakushi Sanzon 薬師三尊 .

Fudo - Yakushi Nyorai and Fudo Myo-O legends 薬師と不動　伝説

Genshō Tennō 元正天皇 Empress Gensho Tenno and Yakushi -(683 – 748)

Gyooki Bosatsu. Gyōki 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu and Yakushi (668-749 AD)

Haiku and kigo 俳句 about Yakushi Nyorai

- - - Heian Period and Yakushi 平安時代と薬師 - (794 - 1192)

. hi mizu no Yakushi 日見ずの薬師 Yakushi not to see the sun .
大鹿村 Oshika village, Nagano

Hinata Yakushi 日向薬師日向山霊山寺 - Kanagawa

Hizura Yakushidoo 日面薬師堂 Hizura Yakushi Do Hall - Kajiyaba, Fukushima

Hokedake Yakush-ji 法華嶽薬師寺 Hokkedake Yakushi Temple
and the quail car toy (うずら車 uzuraguruma)

. Hooraiji 鳳来寺 Horai-Ji, Mikawa, Aichi .

Hooryuuji - 法隆寺 Yakushi Statue at Temple Horyu-ji

Inaba Yakushi 因幡薬師 - Kyoto
temple 平等寺 Byodo-Ji and
因幡堂縁起絵巻 Inabado engi emaki "picture scroll of legends of the Inabado Hall" .

. Ishiyakushi, Ishi-Yakushi 石薬師 various Rock and Stone Yakushi .
and temple Ishiyakushi-Ji, 石薬師寺 Suzuka, Mie

. Iyo 12 Yakushi Temples, Shikoku 伊予十二薬師霊場 .
01 - Toorinji 東林寺 Torin-Ji / 02 小谷山医座寺 Iza-Ji / 03 室岡山蓮華寺 Renge-Ji / 04 Saihooji 大楽山西法寺 Saiho-Ji / 05 Onoyama Shookannji 小野山正観寺 Shokan-Ji / 06 Kooshakuji 瑠璃山香積寺 Koshaku-Ji / 07 Chooryuuji 興福山長隆寺 Choryu-Ji / 08 - 雲門寺 Unmon-Ji / 09 玉松山金蓮寺 Konren-Ji / 10 Choorakuji 長楽寺 Choraku-Ji / 11 Joomyooin 浄明院 Jomyo-In / 12 瑠璃光山薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji - and
Anyooji 安養寺 Anyo-Ji / Juurinji 十輪寺 Jurin-Ji / Saikooji 西光寺 Saiko-Ji

Jingoji　神護寺 Jingo-Ji, Kyoto, Sanbi 三尾

Jinmu-Ji Temple, Fudo Myo-O and Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来
(Jimmuji 神武寺) in Zushi Town, Kanagawa prefecture

Jooshooji 常性寺 Josho-Ji - Tama Henro pilgrimage

Juusanbutsu 十三仏
Yakushi Nyorai is one of the 13 protector Buddhas

. Kani Yakushi 蟹薬師 "Crab Yakushi" . - Gifu, 願興寺 Ganko-Ji, Kani town

Kankaiji 観海寺 -　Kankai-Ji - Oita

Katade Yakushi 隻手薬師 "Yakushi with one arm" 瑠璃山香積寺 Koshaku-Ji Ehime

Kawakami Yakushi　川上薬師 - 弥勒寺 Miroku-Ji Tokyo

Kazusa Yakushi Pilgrimage 上総国薬師如来霊場

 Kenryusan Daigongen Yakushi剣龍山大権現薬師如来
Mount Kenryu-San, Yamagata

Kinegawa Yakushi 木下川薬師 Yakushi from Kinegawa - Edo
- Kigegawa Yakushi Engi = misspelling of Kinegawa

Kinoshita no Yakushi 木ノ下の薬師 Yakushi from Kinoshita - Miyagi

Kiyotakiji 清瀧寺 / 清滝寺 Kiyotaki-Ji - Kochi

kokeshi wooden dolls and Yakushi こけしと薬師如来

. Koyakushizoo 香薬師像 Koyakushi-Zo Statue, Ko-Yakushi .

Koyasu Yakushi 子安薬師 "to protect children"

. Kyushu Pilgrimage to 49 Yakushi Temples 九州四十九薬師霊場 .

. Legends and Folktales about Yakushi Nyorai .

Mine Yakushidoo 峯薬師堂 in Hiraizumi, Iwate
famous for healing eye disease

migawari Yakushi 身代わり薬師 Yakushi as personal substiture *

. Mokujiki 木喰上人 / 木食 statue carver .

nabe Yakushi 鍋薬師 Yakushi and the cooking pot

nade Yakushi　なで薬師　Yakushi to be rubbed

neko Yakushi 猫薬師 Yakushi and the Cat

nezumi Yakushi ねずみ薬師 Yakushi and the mice

nure Yakushi 濡れ薬師 Yakushi who got wet
- - - - - Miyagi - 柴田郡柴田町 Shibata
- - - - - Gunma 高崎市南八幡 - Takasaki Town

. Oka Yakushi Ruriko Nyorai 岡薬師瑠璃光如来 . - Matsuyama, Ehime - 星岡山

Oni 鬼 demons and Yakushi Nyorai

onsen Yakushi 温泉薬師 hot springs and Yakushi *

. Paradise of Yakushi Nyorai 薬師浄土曼荼羅 Yakushi Jodo Mandala .
薬師瑠璃光浄土 Yakushi Ruriko Jodo / 東方瑠璃光浄土 Toho Ruriko Jodo
Eastern Paradise of Pure Lapis Lazuli 東方浄瑠璃世界 Toho Joruri Sekai

placebo effect プラシーボ効果 and Yakushi Nyorai

pokkuri Yakushi ポックリ薬師 granting a sudden death

Raigo-In 大原来迎院 Ohara, Kyoto

Ruriko - Yakushi Rurikoo Nyorai 薬師瑠璃光如来 Yakushi of Lapis Lazuli Radiance.
- - - - - Ruriji 瑠璃寺 temples names Ruri-Ji
- - - - - Rurikooji 瑠璃光寺 temples names Ruriko-Ji - Rurikō-ji 　
- - - - - Rurizan （るりざん）瑠璃山 Ruriyama

ryuutoo Yakushi 龍灯薬師 Yakushi of the Dragon Lantern . - Matsuyama, Ehime

Saikoku Yakushi Pilgrimages to 49 temples
西国四十九薬師巡礼 / 西国薬師巡礼 Saigoku Yakushi

Sakurado Yakushi 桜堂薬師 / 櫻堂薬師 - Gifu

Senmi Yakushi-Ji 川見薬師寺（せんみやくしじ）Kawami Yakushi-Ji - Aichi

Shichibutsu Yakushi 七仏薬師 / 七佛薬師 Seven Yakushi statues - Introduction
- from from 丹後 Tango: 七薬師伝説 : one is muchi yakushi 鞭薬師 "whip Yakushi"
麻呂子親王 Prince Maroko Shinno (当麻皇子 Prince Taima no Miko)

Shiga no Yakushi 志賀の薬師 Yakushi from Shiga village - Miyagi

shio Yakushi 塩薬師 "Salt Yakushi"
- shio no Yakushi 塩の薬師 Yakushi and Salt - Miyagi. Yakushi und Salz

Shunkō-ji 春光寺 Shunko-Ji - Kyoto

Shusse Yakushi 出世薬師 for a good career .

sugi Yakushi 杉薬師 Yakushi and the cedar tree - Miyagi

Sukunahikona no mikoto 少彦名命 Sukuna Hikona (Sukuna-Bikona) and Shinno shi 神農氏 .

Taisanji 太山寺 Taisan-Ji - Hyogo

Tako Yakushi 多幸薬師 / 蛸薬師 Yakushi and the Octopus
in Edo, Kyoto . . .

Tanishi Choja and Yakushi たにし長者

tawara Yakushi 俵薬師 Yakushi and a bale of rice

. Tengu Legends with Yakushi 　薬師と天狗伝説 .

Tokuitsu (Toku-Ichi) 得一徳溢 and the Yakushi Temples in the Aizu area.
Aizu Go Yakushi 会津五薬師 Five Yakushi temples
Kukai Kobo Daishi, priest Tokuitsu and the fighting with the Emishi people in the Tohoku region by the imperial government in Kyoto.
. Enichiji 慧日寺 Enichi-Ji .

Tohoku - Three Great Yakushi Statues 東北の三大薬師

Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 and Yakushi Nyorai

. Tookondoo 東金堂 Tokon-Do "Eastern Golden Hall" - Temple Kofuku-Ji . - Nara

tora Yakushi 寅薬師 "Tiger Yakushi"

Yamaya Yakushidoo 山屋薬師堂 Yamaya Yakushi-Do Hall - Aomori

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Yakushi Nyorai　- Deutscher Text - German .

- yakko 薬壷 medicine pot .

. Yakushida, Yakushiden 薬師田 "Fields of Yakushi" . - place names

Yakushi Engi 薬師縁起 Old Yakushi Scroll Legends

Yakushiji　薬師寺 Yakushi-Ji - Yakushi Temples *

. Yakushi Jinja 薬師神社 Yakushi Shrines . *

Yakushigama, Yakushi no Kama　薬師窯 Yakushi Kiln - Aichi

. Yakushiishi, Yakushi-Ishi 薬師石 Yakushi Ishi Stone or Rock .

Yakushi Kokeshi Doo 薬師こけし堂 Yakushi Kokeshi-Do
興徳寺 Tsuchiyu Hot Spring 土湯温泉 - Fukushima

Yakushi Okami "薬師大神" Yakushi Daijin

Yakushi Onsen 薬師温泉 Hot Springs named Yakushi
. - - - - - Yakushi no Yu　薬師の湯 .

Yakushi sanzon 薬師三尊 Yakushi Triad, Trias, Trinity .

yakushisoo, yakushi soo 薬師草 "Yakushi plant" - Youngia denticulata

. Yakushi Tooge 薬師峠 Yakushi Toge pass - in Japan .

Yakushi zoo, Yakushi Norai zoo 薬師如来像 Statues of Yakushi Nyorai　

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Yamada Yakushi Nyorai 山田薬師如来
and a manju sweets legend from the shop Yamadaya in Ehime.
- Yamada Yakushi 山田薬師 . - Matsuyama, Ehime - 正観寺 Shokan-Ji

. Yamada Naokimi 山田尚公 - carver . - Okayama

. 山中薬師 Yamanaka Yakushi - 医王寺 Io-Ji . - Gifu, Nakatsugawa
and kitsune kooyaku 狐膏薬 fox medicine

Yooji Yakushi Doo 楊枝薬師堂 The Yakushi Hall of Yoji Village - Mie

Yoshiwara (Shizuoka) 吉原の薬師堂 Yoshiwara no Yakushi-Do .
and Tokugawa Ieyasu

Yakuriki Myojin 薬力明神 a Shinto Kami version

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Yakushi Nyorai Places

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 the Buddha of Medicine - Bhaisajyaguru

. Yakushi Onsen 薬師温泉 Hot Springs named Yakushi
Yakushi no Yu 薬師の湯 - Yakushi Yu 薬師湯 .

. Legends about Yakushi Nyorai　薬師伝説　.

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Mountains named Yakushi
Other Place names with Yakushi

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to be updated - ABC list of the prefectures

Mountains named Yakushi

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Niigata 新潟県

加茂市，南蒲原郡 Minamikanbara district
Yoneyama Awagatake Awayakushi 米山，粟ケ岳，粟薬師

Once upon the time of the Gods,
the two mountains Yoneyama and Awagatake tried to find out which one could hold more water. In the end the water began to flow towart Awagatake. The female deity called Awa Yakushi took her undergarment (koshimaki腰巻) and tired to stop the flow until both mountains were about the same size.
Some say the name of the mountain is also 薬師岳 Yakushidake.
And at Yoneyama the name of the deity was 恵那薬師 Ena Yakushi, later pronounced Yone.
It is a mountain where Yakushi Nyorai lives 薬師如来の住む山.

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Toyama 富山県

Yakushidake, Yakushi-Dake 薬師岳 Mount Yakushi
In the Hida Mountain Range. 2,926 meters
With the 薬師岳圏谷（カール）群 at its feet.

There are a few mountains with this same name in the prefectures, but this is the highest peak. It is a sacred mountain symbolizing the Paradise of Yakushi and at its top is a small sanctuary with a statue of Yakushi Nyorai.
There is also a small Fudo Myo-O at his side.

Upstream of the river 和田川 Wadagawa there is a small settlement called 有峰（ありみね） Arimine, said to date back to the times of the Heike 平家落人. They built a small sanctuary on top of the mountain and come here to celebrate every year on the 15th of June.

- reference about Heike 薬師平家落人 -

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Yamagata 山形県

山形県最上郡金山町大字飛森 / Tobinomori, Kaneyama, Mogami District, Yamagata

Yakushisan, Yakushi San 薬師山 Mount Yakushi, Yakushiyama
436.7 m

- Legend
The farmers of Tobinomori village have venerated Yakushi Nyorai since olden times as a deity that wards off insects that destroy the crops 虫除けの神.
When they pray at the shrine on top of the mountain and in the rock cave along the middle of the mountain, there will always be plenty of water and no harm done by insects.
Another legend says that in the rock cave there lives a Tengu 天狗 Mountain Goblin.

Once the nearby mountains quarreled about which was the highest in the area. Finally the Deities got angry about this petty quarrel and grinded off the top of Yakushisan.
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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Ibaraki 　茨城県

Yakushidai 茨城県守谷市薬師台 Yakushidai, Moriya, Ibaraki

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Ibaraki ? Ishioka 石岡

Yakushi Kodoo 薬師古道 Yakushi Kodo - Old Road of Yakushi

Shobuzawa no Yakushi 菖蒲沢薬師
菖蒲沢の薬師」は、筑波四面薬師の一つで、その昔は大変にぎわいました。この薬師古道は、水の神様「龍神様」や「天白稲荷神社」などいろいろな地域資源が点在し、地域の歴史や里山の景観を楽しめる森林浴の道です。

- source : www.city.ishioka.lg.jp

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Monsters, legends and Yakushi 妖怪データベース
- source : nichibun yokai database

YAKUSHI NYORAI, YAKUSHI TATHĀGATA　Buddha of Medicine and Healing
Yakushi literally means Medicine Teacher
Lord of the Eastern Paradise of Pure Lapis Lazuli
(Jp. = Jōruri 浄瑠璃, Skt. = Vaiduryanirbhasa).
Yakushi’s full name is Yakushi-rurikō 薬師瑠璃光,
meaning Medicine Master of Lapis Lazuli Radiance.
Commonly shown holding medicine jar in left hand.
Among the 88 temples on the well-trodden Shikoku Pilgrimage, 23 are dedicated to Yakushi, second only to the 29 sites dedicated to Kannon (Goddess of Mercy).
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. O-Mamori お守り　Amulets and Talismans .

. Yakushi Nyorai - 薬師如来 - Introduction .

. Yakushi Onsen 薬師温泉 Hot Springs named Yakushi .

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