Daikokuji Temple — Attraction in Kyoto

I continued to walk eastward to find Daikoku-ji Temple

The Fushimi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #19 Daikoku-ji Temple Chofuku-ji Temple was said to have been founded either by Kukai (774-835) or Shinnyo (799-865) as a Shingon Sect temple. In 1615, Shimazu Yoshihiro (1535-1619), the lord of the Satsuma Domain, requested the Fushimi Magistrate, Yamaguchi Naotomo (1544-1622), to make this temple, which was near the Satsuma Domain's residence, a prayer place for the domain. It was named Daikoku-ji after the Japanese name of Mahakala as the principal image of the domain was Mahakala. As such, the temple was generally called Satsuma-dera. The roof tiles are decorated with a circle and a cross, which is the family crest of the Shimazu Clan. During the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, secret meetings of anti-shogunate samurai were often held in the temple. Nine martyrs of the Teradaya Incident were also buried in its precincts, and their relics, writings, and poems are still kept in the temple. There is a legend that a ghost parented her baby with candy. The ghost is Yashiro Mitsume, a sister-in-law of Tajiri Inajiro (1825-1923), and her mortuary tablet is enshrined in the temple. There is a candy store Minatoya Yurei Kosodate Ame Honpo near Rokudo no Tsuji in Matsubara-dori, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City. Rokudo no Tsuji is the entrance to Toribeno, one of Kyoto's funeral sites. Minatoya sells nursing-ghost candy even today. In 1899, Mitsume died and was buried, and a few days later a baby's cry was heard from the soil. They dug it up, a newborn baby to a deceased woman. Previously, there was a woman who came to buy candy every night, but after her child was rescued from the grave, she stopped coming to buy it, so this candy came to be called...

2024.11.4　旧東海道57次を歩く旅

旧東海道を遡り、京阪追分駅で下車後に少し歩くと、京都方面と大阪方面の追分があります。 もうちょっとだけ続くこの旅はここからスタートします。

丁度この頃、ブラタモリという番組で東海道57次のことを取り上げていたようで、その影響か街道をウォーキングする人たちの姿もチラホラと目につきますが、53次に比べマイナーなこのルートには旧東海道の標識などほとんどなく、これまで使っていた様な詳細なガイドブックもないので、何度も何度も道を誤り歩きました。

今回の京都では、幕末の舞台になった場所を見て回りましが、57次伏見宿に入るすこし前に大黒寺という小さな寺に寄りました。 ガイドブックもないので全くの下知識なく入ったその寺に、この後訪れる寺田屋で命を落とした9人の烈士の墓がありました。 ひっそりと佇むその墓に手を合わ...

「大政奉還150年幕末維新を歩こう」 円通山と号し、空海（弘法大師）の開基と伝える真言宗東寺派の寺で、もとは長福寺といった。豊臣秀吉が深くこの寺を信奉したのをはじめ、武家の信仰が深かったが、元和元年（１６１５）伏見奉行山口駿河守（するがのかみ）は、薩摩藩主島津家久の命をうけて、この寺を武運長久の祈願所に定め、(薩摩寺)寺名を大黒寺と改めたという。 　本尊聖観音立像と出世大黒天立像は空海が当寺を創立したとき安置したものと伝えている。幕末に西郷隆盛などの志士が国事を論じたという一室があるほか、明治維新志士の遺墨等を所蔵する。...