#48 （41th Temple）

Ryūkō-ji
竜光寺

Crypto Ohenro #48 Goshuin of Ryūkō-ji（竜光寺）
  • Title: Ryūkō-ji（竜光寺）
  • Temple No: 41
  • Principal Image: Jūichimen Kanzeon（十一面観世音菩薩）
  • Price: 0.005ETH
  • Edition: 1/1
  • Additional Information: 

    This temple is popularly called Oinarisan. According to legend, Kōbō Daishi met Inari-myōjin here in 807, in the form of an old white-haired man, and then founded the temple. He also carved the honzon around this time. Inari was the god of fertility, worshipped as an agricultural deity, and always associated with a fox (kitsune), his messenger and attendant. The area around the temple is heavily agricultural and this temple is dedicated to rice growing.

    Inari, though originally a Shintō divinity, became popular here during the Edo Period. This temple has always had many donors and believers, from merchants to samurai. The temple has become the head temple of Inari worship in Japan.

    In addition to the hondō and daishidō, there is also an Inari Shrine on the temple grounds. Until the forced split at the start of the Meiji Period, one building housed both the temple and the shrine with the honzon housed inside. Since the split, though,the two establishments have been in adjacent, but separate, buildings. Statler says that when he visited the temple in the 70's, both the temple and the shrine were claiming to be the one that housed the original honzon, the one that Kōbō Daishi carved. In Miyata-sans guidebook, he tells henro to be sure to visit this honzon in the "main shrine."

    Frederick Starr says that the honzon is Jizō Bosatsu and that it is accompanied by Fudō and Bishamon.

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ABOUT STORY

The 41st temple is Ryūkō-ji (Ryukoji).

The distance from the previous temple (41st) is 2.6km.

 

The entrance to Ryūkō-ji. I searched for it, but it seems that there is no gate in this temple.

There is a shrine torii in the back, so the temple and shrine coexist.

 

This is the main hall of Ryūkō-ji. Jūichimen Kanzeon (Eleven-faced Kanzeon Bosatsu) is enshrined.

 

Although it is a small hall, this is the hall with an enshrined statue of Kobo Daishi.

He advocates the Heart Sutra while wishing for the safety of his family and the peace of the world.

 

On the way to the next temple, there is a real Japanese castle called “Uwajima Castle”.

 

Although it is small, it is popular with tourists because it is a real castle.

 

The feeling of an old tree remains in the castle, and it is very healing.

 

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The red stamp of the 41st temple, Ryūkō-ji. The flow of the brush looks like an afterimage, creating an art.

I have to go around 40 more temples.

The distance to the next temple is 50.2km. It’s a long distance.

 

Crypto Ohenro #48 Goshuin of Ryūkō-ji（竜光寺）


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