Jizo crying at night

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Jizo and babies crying at night, yonaki Jizoo
夜泣き地蔵

This Jizo is believed to keep babies from crying at night. 'god of children who weep nightly' .



【岡本寺】明日香村岡

At the temple Okamoto-Ji in Asuka there is a stone dedicated to Bonten (A-Ten 阿（梵）天).

In former times, there was a small hall for the meditation of the sanskrit letter A (ajikan meditation). Monks would sit in front of the stone and meditate about the beginning and end of things. The Japanese letter for "breath" iki　息, 　means "jibun no kokoro 自分の心, your own self, your own heart, your origin". That is what you strife for in your meditation about the letters A and Un.
A means the breathing in, UN means the breating out of one cycle of breathing.


The stone with the sanskrit letter A　



This stone also was the subject of prayer for mothers with a baby that would cry at night (yonaki). If their prayer was sincere enough, the baby would stop crying. This belief is maybe linked to the sound of "aaa, aaa" when a baby cries.

There is also an old poem about this

阿字の子が、阿字のふるさと立ち出でて、また立ちかえる阿字のふるさと

People come from the souce of A, experience a lot of ups and downs in life and finally return to the letter UN in the end.

© 飛鳥京観光協会

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There are other places with a Jizo who helps with crying babies in Japan.

http://www.city.tomisato.chiba.jp/syoukai/stories/story005.html
http://www.city.inazawa.aichi.jp/mukashi/html/0201010100.html
http://www.usui-es.gsn.ed.jp/chiikiisan/sub12.htm
http://www.k5.dion.ne.jp/~jyoryuzi/kokyu.htm

English LINKS
http://www.shikoku.gr.jp/iyashi/english/tera88/16.htm
http://www.outdoorjapan.com/hiking-camping/activity-hc-mie6.html
http://www.gameshaper.net/kyonoki/pivot/entry.php?id=788&month=4&year=2007

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Fukushima 福島県 / 大沼郡 Onuma district

itachi イタチ weasel
The messenger of the Yonaki Jizo at どうめき沢 / 百目木沢 Domekizawa swamp is a weasel.
It walks around at night and calls out:
"Shall I eat some soy beans, or shall I eat a crying child?"
When the children hear this, they soon stop to cry.


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Kyoto 京都

yonaki Jizoo 夜泣地蔵 Jizo crying at night
Once the voice of a crying child was heard every night from the zushi 厨子 miniature shrine in the main hall of 春日神社 Kasuga Jinja.
春日大明神 Kasuga Daimyojin was worshipped as Jizo Bosatsu. But it seemed that the Jizo Statue wanted to go to Shin-Yakushi-Ji temple and so it was removed to there.

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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- Ajikan Meditation 阿字観 - Introduction




- Aum, Om, A-Un 阿吽 and HAIKU

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咲花もちれるも阿字の自在かな
hana saku mo chireru mo aji no jizai kana

cherry blossoms flower
and then fall down -
all this is the way of things ...

Enomoto Seifu-Jo 榎本星布


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