August 03, 2016

PERSONS - Mokujiki Ogo

http://enkumastercarverjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/01/mokujiki.html

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Mokujiki Ōgo, Mokujiki Oogo 木食應其 / 木食応其 Mokujiki Ogo
(1536 - 1608) 天文5年(1536年)- 慶長13年10月1日(1608年11月8日))
Mokujiki Shonin "wood eating holy Buddhist monk"
A priest of the Shingon sect and scholar of literature.
Also called 深覚坊応其.
A renga poet, living in 近江国 Omi, a member of the 佐々木 Sasaki clan. With his father he fought Oda Nobunaga at the temple 近江観音寺 Kannon-Ji, now in ruins.
In 1573, aged 38, he became a monk at 高野山 Mount Koyasan.
Later he influenced Toyotomi Hideyoshi not to burn the temple at Koyasan.
He was in charge of the funeral for Toyotomi Hideyoshi.



He worked at the temples 応其寺、興山寺、飯道寺 and others.

His famous three-chapter treatiese of renga linked verse is
Mugonshoo, Mugon shō 無言抄 (1603) Mugonsho, Mugon-Sho



Exhibition in Wakayama Museum 和歌山県立博物館

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. Saint Mokujiki Tanshoo 木喰但唱 Mokujiki Tansho .
and temple 万竜寺 Manryu-Ji, Nagano - around 1611
木食修行, eating only barks of trees and a few vegetables for 1000 days.

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Gyooshoo 行勝 Gyosho (1130 - 1217)

Mokujiki Sankyo 木喰山居 (1657 - 1724)

Mokujiki Yooa 木食養阿 Yoa (? - 1763)

Mokujiki Byakudoo 木食白道 Byakudo (1755 - 1826)

Tokuhon 徳本 (?1758 - 1818)


Nichikan Shonin 日鑑上人 of the Nichiren sect, lived in Chiba, 丸山町 Maruyama Town.
During a drought he sat on top of the hill and prayed for rain and after 2 days it rained indeed.
He then continued his mokujiki asceticism and became a "Buddha in the flesh" 肉身仏 after death.
- source : nichibun yokai database -


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