EDO - Koishikawa Temple Sokeiji

https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2017/10/sashigaya-koishikawa.html

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Sookeiji 宗慶寺 Temple Sokei-Ji

ryuujo 竜女 Ryujo, dragon woman
Sookeiji 宗慶寺 Temple Sokei-Ji
Bunkyō-ku, Koishikawa, 4 Chome−15−17



Shookei 聖冏 Yuurenja Ryooyo 酉蓮社了誉 Shokei Yurenja Ryoyo (1341 - 1420)
a traveling monk of the Pure Land Sect.

When Saint Ryoyo stayed at the temple Sokei-Ji, there appeared a "dragon woman".
Ryoyo received the blessings and 菩薩戒 a Bosatsu ordination from her.
She had come from the 極楽井 Gokuraku well.








江戸名所図会 Edo Meisho Zue

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Gokurakusui 極楽水 "Paradise Water" is a name of a well in the Koishikawa district of the Bunkyō Ward.
It was part of Sōkeiji Temple and was known to have delicious water. The well has dried up and is perservd only as a landmark.
- Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City
- source : Barbara E. Thornbury, ‎Evelyn Schulz -

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