April 13, 2018

YAKUSHI legends from Tohoku

https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.jp/2015/04/yakushi-legends-tohoku.html

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Yamagata 山梨県

. Yakushisan, Yakushi San 薬師山 Mount Yakushi .

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鶴岡市 Tsuruoka 大広 Daiko

. katame no buna 片目の鮒 crucian carp with one eye .

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米沢市 Yonezawa

. Ono no Komachi no rei 小野小町の霊 spirit of Ono no Komachi .
Captain Fukakusa (Fukakusa no Shoushou 深草少将)
- bijo zuka 美女塚 mound of the beauty

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4 Kayoi Komachi 通小町.
Captain Fukakusa no Shosho (Fukakusa no Shoushou 深草少将) fell in love with Komachi. She promised to spend a night with him if he slept 100 nights outside her door. The captain braves the elements for 99 nights, marking each night by notch on the carriage shaft bench, but expires on the 100th. The poem reads:
"One hundred times or more, I hear the fluttering of the snipes' wings as I count the lonely hours till dawn when you have not come."
[Akatsuki no/shiji no hanegaki/momohagaki//kimi ga konuyo wa/warezo kazukazu
あかつきの/しじのはねがき/ももはがき/きみがこぬ夜は/われぞかずかず]
Typically in painting the captain is visiting Komachi by an oxcart on a snowy night.

- - - - - Yamagata 山形県 / 米沢市 Yonezawa

Ononokomachi no rei 小野小町の霊 spirit of Ono no Komachi
After her affair with Fukasa Komachi fled the capital of Kyoto. She fell very sick. Before she died, she wanted to see her father one more time and walked towart Tohoku.
In the mountains of Yonezawa she collapsed. Yakushi Nyorai took pity on her and let her to the river 小野川 Onogawa and a hot spring. But she died at 塩井 Shioi.
The villagers took pity on her and built a mound with a Jizo Bosatsu hall over her grave.
About 200 years later a mendicant priest read the Sutras at the mound, when the spirit of Komachi appeared and told him that Fukasa was reborn as the son of a dry goods dealer in Yonezawa.
When the man heard this, he fell ill and died soon. He was buried in the West of the mound, now called 美男塚 Binanzuka, "Mound of the beautiful man".
There are other versions of this story.

bijoozuka 美女塚 mound of the beautiful woman (with Jizo Bosatsu)


https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.jp/2011/11/onoterusaki-shrine.html
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