The 34th Day in Japan I'm still on clock before 6.00, though this falls in my dark hole under the bridge, but little light. Although the sky has no clouds, but here is the so dark? Of course, since I am close to the river are to keep the surrounding mountains from the sun. I quickly got my Combine (24-hour store) squashed and breakfast on my way back to the tap to Temple No. 66 (Unpenji) made. The large digital thermometer shows no 10 ° C, although the sun is shining and it is mid-April. I pass a restaurant that says "Highway Cafe" and was wondering what is being offered as a "German food". But I am disappointed, just the name sounds like Germany, because the plastic models show only Japanese menus. Perhaps the owner has been on vacation in Germany, and was then so impressed by the "land of unlimited speed limits" that he has named his restaurant after. But I walk for the first time on the other side of the river along. I cross the river were at a big bridge and before I know it, I then signs show him the way to No. 66 Temple 9 km it says on the blue sign, but this applies to the car track and I hope that the pedestrian trail is a bit shorter. I pass a small tea field and on the adjacent fields a farmer plowing with such a small tractor his field. The small farm equipment and cars here in Japan are simply sweet. Hardly bigger than a riding mower pushes the little "executor" through the field. In the neighboring field, the rice seedlings are neatly lined up. The irrigation is an art, since the water is often not available, but flows from the top over the middle to the lower fields. You once told me that the fields are so small, because after the war no one could have more than one hectare of land.
Now it's back to the mountains and I'm right in my backpack to haul. Unfortunately, my "Hüftgold" dissipated with time, so that the backpack is no longer attached properly. Although I have the belt until it shut, but noticed after a few minutes as I get a tingling sensation in the groin. As the belt press probably from the blood supply and then I hop a few times to get the belt back on the waist. The traffic signs on me gay, now I'm already running 3 km. So I Hangle me of a sign to the next, because the trail runs here but on asphalt, but car-unfriendly steep. Shortly after the sign has anyone set up benches and I use it for a small little break. From here I can even see the Unpenji if I lukend through the canopy, the greater zoom my camera use. I can make a bright buildings and a large statue on a mountain. I walk further and converts the street. She seems to have been tarred brand new, because here are still pylons (traffic cones) and the lane marking is still bright white. But why did they only built the road so steep, if I as a pedestrian here already so high come what to do because only drivers who want to move up the road to the temple? Just stand still, otherwise you roll back down the mountain and in any case, oncoming traffic, who should be able to reach this gap on a slope? A large Plaque with the inscription Shikoku Michi ("Shikoku Road") informed me about the location of the temple and the distances of lying in the vicinity, attractions. I'll probably going to have to take a cable car, so I do not miss the way from the Unpenji Bangai No. 16. But finally I pass a pair of pillars, and shortly thereafter the gate to Unpenji containing both red guardian figures (NIO) and huge straw sandals (Waraji). The sun shines through the trees and the view from here is breathtaking. I am always amazed, how to walk, loaded it with almost 15 kg of luggage, then it can thus climb a mountain. Although it takes longer than the motorized pilgrimage, but then reached target yet. There is always an uplifting feeling, not only reached the temple, but have mastered the mountain. It has then developed a certain level which makes a descent on the other side of the mountain. The feeling you have to save and the next climb, always remember if you are now torturing to get up the mountain, the descent is all the more easier.
Digression No. 66 Temple Unpenji (云 辺 寺)
"The Temple of the floating cloud" was founded in 790 by Kobo Daishi in the place where, a few years earlier, leaving behind a Buddhist relic of stone had. But it could have happened 807, where he was on the order of Emperor Saga (786-842, 52nd emperor) was founded for the purpose of temples here and a disease that had fallen through the residents, walking stick banished underground. The pilgrims' leader, are somewhat contradictory on this point. Even when it comes to whether Chōsokabe Motochika, one of the 16 Century, the idea was that the three adjacent provinces of Awa, Sanuki, and Iyo submit. Did he Shunsō the temple after his meeting with the High Priest now be burnt or has the bold appearance of the clergy of the warlord led to the spare to the highest temple Shikoku (911 m)? In all cases included the temple at its peak seven shrines, 12 affiliated warehouses and 8 branches and was "Shikoku Koya referred. Following the great temple of the Shingon Buddhism on the Koya-san in the Kii Mountains. The main deity (Gohonzon) is the thousand-armed Kannon (Senju Kannon). Another Kannon statue and a Fudo are among the national treasures. The temple was Emperor Kameyama (1249-1305, 90th emperor) devoted to who planted a gingko tree here. The trunk of the tree with an inscription in Sanskrit (ancient Indian language) and as a relic left behind by the emperor's hair. After his overthrow was the 90th Kaiser (emperor) of Japan monk, founded the Zen temple Nazen-ji in Kyoto, and spent the rest of his life there. It is also noteworthy that the first temple, strictly speaking, in the list of Kagawa Prefecture Tokushima Prefecture in the stands. Since 1987 a cable car to the pilgrims visiting the resources in this "Sekisho" (border temple), the pilgrim should actually consider the spiritual, if he could continue the pilgrimage or not.
There is indeed a cable car, which was built from my point of view but from the wrong side of the Unpenji-Yama, as the trail comes from the opposite side. During the Fußpilger the route on paved roads running so that was mentioned, just renewed, the motorized Pilgrimage to drive a car, bus and Sanroku up to can be brought down from there by cable car up the mountain to the temple. According card book is 2.7 km long and takes 7 minutes to bring the pilgrims to about 1000 m altitude. The temple area is a vast territory to offer in addition to the actual hall has many details. For example, the figures Tanuki (raccoon dog), a strange stone fused (Kankan ishi), and a Obergine metal work that is here on a granite block. The huge figure on the summit of the mountain, holding a trident in your hands is probably a statue of Kannon. Particularly interesting I find the collection of 500 Rankan figures, former disciple of Buddha. They are Here, each individually designed. There is even a female figure standing directly on a welcome sign, since that time I knew nothing of it, unfortunately I have not paid attention to them. Right in the middle there is a plant with the reclining Buddha, or is there a death scene? I see Hotei, who plays with children, one configured as a turtle incense burner, Bodhidharma, the legendary martial monk (Shaolin in China!) And founder of Zen Buddhism in Japan. I could spend hours here and shoot photos, you can not just get enough. But as a family carting their frail father in a wheelchair through the temple area, which brings me back to reality. That you expect the old masters have such tour tours must remain incomprehensible to me! Especially as the two women (grandma and daughter) and the man have to do real, Opi move up in his wheelchair up the steep path. But grandpa is moved not only to the large statue of Kannon, but must also walk a few steps with the pilgrim's stick before he has fulfilled his obligations pilgrims.
Unfortunately some buildings because of works covered, but there are plenty of other interesting things to see. How are the different types of charms that are sold here, with moss-covered stones that look as if they had been stolen from a Chinese landscape, and the prayer wheels, include those using one's prayer transitions between the temple halls may or turning it, as in the Tibetan tradition of prayer, just? I go on Omukae Daishi, the "Willkommensdaishi, past goodbye, because I want to leave the mountain via the cable car station. I have now however decided to use it, so I do not get on the wrong path, because I want to visit from Temple No. 67, nor necessarily Bangai No. 16. If it were not so hazy, you could have an even better view, maybe would be able to Bangai temple is visible from up here. But as it blurs the edge of the plain that stretches before me. I notice a ski lift, which runs parallel to the cable car runs and I need to go during the presentation in the eyes of the Kannon statue Ski grin. When I arrived at the base station, which is not really in the valley, but half way up. There is a huge parking lot to the many shops have settled. Before a business Dangos, rice balls that are dipped in sauce are roasted on an open fire. Unfortunately, the pilgrimage is marked poorly, so I'm first in the direction Iseki Øya lake or on the road. On the latter should be Bangai No. 16. I walk through wilderness that is characterized by fields and low bushes. The sun is burning and there is no shadow, but finally I have achieved Bangai No. 16.
digression Bangai stamp 16 Hagiwaraji (萩 原 寺)
"The Temple of bush clover field" was founded by Kobo Daishi 1200 years ago and "Jizo Bosatsu Karadasan Hibuse dedicated. Whether this is a special form of Jizōs or a separate deity, I could not figure out unfortunately.
Although the description states that this temple 1200 years ago by Kobo Daishi was founded and is said to be a special training temple for Shingon priest, and I has 280 branches throughout Japan, the current temple an unkempt and dilapidated shop . The Pilgrims' Office comes before one like a 100-yen shop where you can buy children's toys on Possible pilgrimage paraphernalia and other travel gifts (omiage) everything. Normally I'm a fan of this 100-yen shops, since everything useful and detraction, which can be purchased for 100 yen, finds a small space. But for a pilgrim's office then it is a bit inappropriate. will also emerge as the woman of my pilgrimage book, she is so hectic that the stamp is in the wrong place. Instead the record as Bangai temple to make No. 15, they left their mark on the Just released since I had planned for Bangai Temple No. 1. So I jot down in my notebook pilgrimage that the first Bangai temple not 1, but, unfortunately, is No. 16! During my stay in the temple of bees in the door hardware is made. The way back through the gate is locked me because the whole area suddenly teeming with bees. I did not want a bee charm can be so great. Although I had when passing through the gate quite seen that crawled some bees on the left side through a hole, but now the air in front of the door filled with nothing but bee bodies, the comic form are arranged in the air, as if to block the passage . After a brief detour to an adjoining building, I was on my way to Temple No. 67
burns The sun, although I have been refilling sun block, but here in the plane, there are just fields, no woods, which I could provide shade. On the elongated asphalt streets, I guess here goes straight 5 km, I come before me in the desert. In a small shrine, situated on a wooded hill, I take a short rest. Fortunately, it is prohibited to fell trees to cry campuses as they are usually sacred trees where gods live. In most places you can see terrain cry from afar, as they have usually the only or largest trees in the area. On my way to Temple No. 67 to get past a lotus root pond. Lotus roots are placed eaten as a vegetable in Japan. It are often slightly thicker slices, in which many holes, they are referred to as "renkon. Sorry, there are signs on the trail of the pilgrims in short supply, though I walk on the trail described, I think just before the temple Daikōji some signs.
Digression No. 67 Temple Daikōji (大兴 寺)
"The temple of the great growth" was 822 by Kobo Daishi, at the behest of Emperor Saga (786-842, 52nd emperor) was founded. The temple is also called "Komatsuji" which means something like "tail of a small pine tree" and probably refers to the mountain name. Kobo Daishi is here Gongen revered (budd. term for Shinto gods) of the three major shrines of Kumano and the statue of Yakushi Nyorai as the main deity (Gohonzon) carved. But not only the Shinto was and has always been associated with the Daikōji, but also the Buddhist Tendai sect has for some time with the Shingon sect Kōbō Daishis this temple. At its peak there were 24 and 12 Tendai Shingon buildings, but in the 16 Century Chōsokabe troops have been burned down. The period 1573-1592 was just over the main hall (hondo), the other buildings were in the 17 Century rebuilt. Noteworthy here are a camphor and nutmeg; of the Daishi is said to have personally planted. There are two halls Daishi (daishidō) on each of which the faithful can pray of Shingon Buddhism and that of the Tendai school. The more than 3 m measured Nio statues (statues of guardian) are from the famous Künster Unkei (1223), the largest being on the Shikoku pilgrimage. There is a statue of the Chinese Tedai sect founder "Tentai Daishi. It is not Saicho, another Japanese monk who traveled with Kobo Daishi to China to study local Buddhism and its various schools. The temple has at hand but also a legend (1603-1868) by a pair of lovers in the Edo period concerns. A vegetable vendor names Oshichi and the temple staff Yoshisaburo in love, get married and wanted. But the woman died very unexpectedly in a fire in Tokyo. As now Yoshisaburo during the pilgrimage for the soul of his beloved here at the temple came, he noticed that the neck of the statue switch was broken. After he had asked the temple superintendent's permission, he took the head of the Guardian Statue on the shoulder and carried her, asking for donations for the repair, by Shikoku.
The gate guard with the greatest statues of pilgrimage, of course, I look more closely and since both have their head firmly on the wooden shoulders, with Yoshisaburo his fundraising was probably successful. It is an ordinary temple, not such a motley conglomeration as Bangai No. 16 To my surprise, I discovered an owl in a cage, the men seated beside me smiling. Whether the owl is a good luck charm? Left and right of the Main Hall (Hondo), the two-Daishi Hall (daishidō), but what now for the Shingon and Tendai Buddhism to what is, is beyond my knowledge. But here is a portrait Kōbō Daishis that if you look closer, consists entirely of Japanese characters (kanji). That's a great idea, maybe even the characters are the Heart Sutra. Since I not looking where to start in the picture I do, this question remains unresolved. Here also still hangs a poster advertising a foreign power. Not for the 88 temples of Shikoku is advertised, but for the 33 temples that are dedicated to the deity Kannon Bosatsu and are located in Kyoto. In Japan there is even the possibility of "100 Temple of Kannon 'visit, which lies in the Saikoku" in the Kansai area (33 temples in and around Kyoto, Osaka, Wakayama, etc.), "Bandou" in the Kanto region (34 in Temple bers and around Tokyo) and "Chichibu" in the area around Saitama.
lie outside the halls of roof tiles, to label it and donate to the temple can. So you can of course renovate a roof! As I leave the temple, I'm on the way back to the Ryokan Ohira over. Here I was on the way to the temple a little off track when I heard a kitten crying here. Since I could not find it, I then walked past the house, instead of the right way to take it over to the temple. Actually, I could ask for a room in the ryokan, but I speculate that I create in the remaining time still the way to Temple No. 68 and 69, are to lie together on one site, near the Kotobiki parks. According to report back tomorrow I have to reckon with increased probability of rain, although I like to sleep in the park on the beach would. When I finally arrived at the gate, I had to once again through a maze of city streets and alleys torture, it's 16.45 clock. I storm across the grounds and find the pilgrim's office, where one makes me, to my great surprise, two pilgrims a comment. I can breathe, that I had read in the temple leader!
Digression No. 68 Temple Jinnein (神 恵 院)
"The Temple of the grace of God" was based on a vision of the monk on 21 Nissho Founded in March 703. The monk was part of the Yogacara (Hosso shū-school) Buddhism, a philosophical movement that reality as a projection of the mind conceives. He appeared on the mountain Kotohiki ("dither Play") seven-colored clouds. Then he saw a ship with the koto (Japanese zither) playing god Hachiman (Shinto god of war), who told him that he would be this wonderful place not to leave, but here want to stay to the Buddha Dharma (teachings) and the laws of . protect Nissho hid the ship by using local people, built warehouses in which the ship, the torpedo and other treasures were verwart and called this place Kotobiki-Hachiman-Gu. But he dedicated the temple or shrine and a statue of Amida Nyorai, which is seen as a Buddhist incarnation Hachiman and a figure of Prizessin Jinguu (169-269). The latter was after her husband's death, 209-269, when her son took over the reign again, Empress of Japan (emperor) and is said to have made a legendary campaign in Korea a name. 722 Gyōgi Visited this place and from 806 810 to Kōbō Dasihi have lived here. He has also painted the image of Amida Nyorai or the trembling gambling Hachiman (kotobiki Hachiman), one of the main deity (Gohonzon) is revered and have the stamp "Jinnein referred. During the Meiji Restoration of Kobobiki-Hachiman-Gu Shrine and Temple Jinnei was separated, the Amida Nyorai statue in the Hall of Yakushi Kannonji (Temple No. 69, see below has been transferred). The Main Hall (Hondo) of Jinnein was created in 2003 out of concrete. Remarkably, not only the previous connections between Temple No. 68 and 69, they still maintain a common pilgrim office (nokyoshō) in which the pilgrim receives the stamps and signatures for both temples. Also, the entrance gate (niōmon) share the two temples. In addition called the main hall (hondo), there is a garden that is Gigi and the 45 High Priest of Jinneis has been designed. Interesting also the appearance of a giant coin (Zenigata Sunae, "coin-shaped sand painting") on the beach, which is filled up with sand and the first time in 1633 after the Model of a coin from the Kanei period (1624-1643) was created. Special viewing areas are halfway between the temple and beach.
Digression No. 69 Temple Kanonji (観 音 寺)
"The Temple of Kannon" was like its previous temple founded by the monk Nissho (701-703), but under the name "Jinguuji. Accordingly, it was probably originally dedicated to the Empress Jinguu. Around the year 793 is a man named uncircumcised chief priest of the temple and appoint him in "Jinnein" around. 807 Kobo Daishi coming here and building next to the temple at the foot of the mountain Kobobiki, 7 warehouses, 47 stupas (reliquary towers). He dedicates the temple in memory of Jinguu, Sho Kannon, her / his statue he has carved. The temple is now called "Kanonji", just like the city here. Between 9 and 13 Century blossoming of the temple, he becomes a place where people pray for the health of the Emperor Kammu (737-806), Heizei (774-824) and Kameyama (1249-1305). The Hondo (main hall) is restored to 1472, 1525 and modified in 1959 and is now one of the "Important Cultural Property." Interestingly, this temple has no Daishihalle, it is reported that the Daishi is said to have buried after a vision of Hachiman here seven treasures, so the temple as "Shichihozan (seven treasures) Kannonji" is called. But its real treasures, they are listed as "national treasures" include an icon of the Buddha as he enters into nirvana (Shaka Nehan-zo), a Fudo Myoo statue and the scrolls, in which the legend
to the Kotobiki Hachiman will tell. see after this hectic in the evening hour, I am in peace in the temple. Explore any angle can see me at the garden and Gigi make me finally on the way to the beach. Here in Kotohiki park there should be heaped sand figure of a coin. "Zenigata Sunae" or "Kan-ei-tsuho" this attraction is called the in the 17th century should have adorned the beach. But first can I search the beach, but find the coin, but as you see in front of it except a few deep trenches hardly anything - it is all white sand beach. Creeps me fear that I am now the way I'm getting back climb up, since I can see the vantage point high above the beach from here. I do so on the way to climb the many steps, but not without keeping your eyes open for a place to sleep. When I arrive then at the prospect cottage, there have been other pilgrims cozy. Then I must have it down in the park to sleep in the pavilion. Since I am alone and then must not snore with a race. I photograph the sunset, like so many tourists who have found their way up here. On the way back to the pavilion I take care of me even with drinks from the vending machine, when suddenly a peacock scream my peaceful evening quiet tears. Even still, I think to myself, hopefully keeps the beak of tonight! But not a bird, but a construction called "Water Harp" is to rob me with their dripping "Klingeling" the night. As I enter the pavilion, the toilets are housed in adjacent buildings, to clean the first time the bank of sand on which I want to spend the night. I quickly made my dinner Pilgrims from cookies and mochi (rice cakes) eaten with wine grape soda and laid me down, as loud music bothers me again. Whether to make the young people in the park or party here is even a shop with live music, I'm not looking, at all events is Saturday and it's late into the night. When the Rabatz comes to rest, does the splash of water harp my entertainment. And sometime I sleep then anyway.
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