EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 KÕSHIN   IS KÖSHIN a deification of that day of the month which corresponds to the 57th term of the Chinese sexagenary cycle and is called in Japanese Ka-no-e-Saru.  This, being the day of the Monkey is represented by three monkeys- ( sam biki zaru), called respectively by a play upon words: mi-zaru , kika-zaru , and iwa-zaru.  That is the "blind monkey", the "deaf monkey" and the "dumb monkey".  Stone slabs with these three monkeys in relief are among the most usual objects of devotion met with o...

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 Jızō is Society of Japan Jızō . Sanskrit Kshitigarbha the Buddhist helper of who are in trouble He is patron of the of travellers, and of the pregnant women, and of children. His image is heaped with pebbles, which serve in the other world to relieve the labours of the young who have been robbed of garments by the hag named Shōzuka- no-Baba, and then set by her  to perform the endless task of piling up the stones on the bank of the river Sai-no-kawara. which is  Buddhist Styx.  Jizō is represented a shaven p...

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 INARI IS INARI- the Goddess of Rice also called Uga no Mitama.   The fox whose image is always found in her temples, is her servant or messenger.Though the more igno rant worshippers take that wily beast for the goddess herself .There is some confusion with regard to the sex of Inari, who is occasionally represented as a bearded man  Inari- a temple of the Shingon sect of Buddhists dedicated to the worship of Miroku and properly called Sambō in but generally known as Daigoji. Name Daigoji is coming   from th...

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 FUDÕ   IS  FUDÕ-  (Sanskrit Achala)  Much obscurity hangs over the origin and attributes of this popular divinity. According to Monier Williams,- Achala which means immovable.  Fudo 不動 translates this meaning exactly is a name of the Brahmini call The God Siva and of the first of the nine deified persons, who are called White Balas. Among the Jainas  (Satow says)- Fudō Akshara is identified with Dainichi Vâirôkana, else The God of Wisdom, which quality is symbolised by the flames which surrou...

EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 EMMA-Õ  IS Sanskrit (Yama-raja) the regent of the Buddhist hells. He may be known by his cap resembling a judge's beret and by the huge mace in his right hand.  Before him often sit two myrmidons one of whom holds a pen to write down the sins of human beings, while the other reads out the list of their offences from a scroll. 

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 BINZURU   IS originally one of the Sixteen Rakan -was expelled from their number for having violated his vow of chastity by remarking upon the beauty of a female whence the usual situation of his image outside the sanctum.  It is also said that Buddha conferred on him the power to cure all human ills.  For this reason believers rub the image of Binzuru on that part which may be causing them pain in their own bodies and then rub them selves in the hope of obtaining relief and thus it comes about that such ima...

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 AMIDA  Sanskrit - Amitabha a powerful deity dwelling in a lovely paradise to the west  Originally Amida was an abstrac tion the ideal of boundless light.His image may generally be recognised by the hands lying on the lap with the thumbs placed end to end. Very often too the halo gokō forms a background not only to the head but to the entire body and is then termed funa gokō from its resemblance in shape to a boat.  The spot on the forehead is emblematical of wisdom. The great image Daibutsu at Kamakura repr...

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 ARCHITECTURE OF SHINTO TEMPLE DESCRIPTION OF LONDON PUBLISHING HOUSE-1913. MURRAYS HANDBOOK OF JAPAN. The architecture of Shintoō temples is extremely simple and the mate rial used is plain white wood with a thatch of chamæcyparis bark The annexed plan of the Great Temple of Izumo Izumo no Oyashiro taken from a drawing sold to pilgrims and printed on Japanese paper will serve to exemplify this style of architecture Few Shinto temples however are quite so elaborate as this the second holiest in the Empire  We find then...