Yugasan Fudo

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Yugasan Fudo 由加山厄除不動
Temple Rendai-Ji 蓮台寺
岡山県倉敷市児島由加2855
Okayama Prefecture, Kurashiki

This altar is 7m 59cm high, the statue itself 366cm. This is the number of days in a year plus one. So he will protect us during this year and reaching over to the next one.

The statue was made by te sculptor Araki Kei-un 荒木啓運師 from Kyoto. The black body of Fudo is sourrounded by the red mandorla.

This Fudo will protect you from evil and disaster.





You can by a tablet (fuda) and write your name and wish on it. It will be placed inside the staute to fulfill your prayers.





Fudo Image to protect you from disaster



Copyright(c) 2002 Yugasan All rights reserved.


This temple is located in Okayama prefecture, on the slopes of Mount Yugasan 由加山.
It is a place where the deities of Shinto and Buddhism are still toghter, as a "Shrine-Temple, shaji 社寺".
For the shrine, the deity is called Yuga Daigongen 瑜伽大権現.
On the other side of the Seto Inland Sea is the Konpira Daigongen. During the Edo period, pilgrims would start off here and then take the ship to Shikoku to visit both Gongen. The village at the foot of the temple was full of cheap places to stay over night.

The temple has been founded by Gyoki Bosatsu. He had 600 volumes of the Great Hanya Sutra copied and burried in the ground of the pagoda. The old name of the temple was
経尾山瑜伽寺摩尼殊院.

The temple was also under the protection of the lord of Okayama, the Ikeda clan. On the slabs of the fence around this shrine (tamagaki 玉垣) you can read names of pilgrims from all over Japan, for example the rich merchant from Edo, Shiobara Daisuke 塩原太助.

Konpira Daigongen is still an acitve deity as protector of the sea and fishing, whereas Yuga Daigongen is not that specific. It fell into inactivity at the end of the Edo period. There are few tourists now, none visiting twice, and very few pilgrims.



Yuga Daigogen Shrine 由加大権現
Yuga Jinja 由加神社

The temple Rendai-Ji is responsible for burrials and Buddhist service.



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Rirakkuma, Rilakkuma リラックマ　御守り　 Relax Bear Amulet
. Toys and Talismans from Japan .　


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Araki Keiun, Araki Kei-Un 荒木啓運
(アラキケイウン)
Buddhist Sculptor Workshop in Kyoto

（〒607-8302）
京都府京都市山科区西野山欠ノ上町１－３５



source : 荒木啓運



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Objects inside a Buddha statue (tainai butsu)


Konpira Daigongen . 金毘羅大権現
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Gyoki Bosatsu Gyooki 行基菩薩

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