The Sanuki Sekibutsu (佐貫石仏) is an outline carving of Dainichi Nyorai of unknown origin located in the town of Shioya, Tochigi Prefecture, in the northern...

Shingon-shū Chisan-ha temple in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, noted for the Sanuki Stone Buddha Tōkai-ji (Chiba), a Shingon-shu Buzan-ha temple in Kashiwa, Chiba...

Sanuki Stone Buddha...

Directions"). Kūkai was born in 774 in the precinct of Zentsū-ji temple, in Sanuki province on the island of Shikoku. His family were members of the aristocratic...

back the country from Emperor Go-Shirakawa, he was defeated and exiled to Sanuki Province in Shikoku. According to legend he died in torment, having sworn...

or Miroku, the Buddha to be, became widespread. Believers buried scriptures and images to gain merit and to prepare for the coming Buddha. This practice...

historic sites related to finance or manufacture activities Graves and stone monuments with inscriptions Former residences, gardens, ponds and other...

Gokishichidō) Shikoku: "Four States" in Japanese, in reference to the Awa, Tosa, Sanuki and Iyo provinces of 7th-century Nankaidō (See: Gokishichidō) Hokkaido:...

Nemuri-neko (Sleeping cat) and Sparrows (sculptures) Oita 1,790,000 Usuki Stone Buddha Hyōgo 1,800,000 Pair of Oriental storks 25 2013 Miyagi 1,700,000 Sendai...

pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kōbō Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha. State University of New York Press. pp. 124–131, 301–3. ISBN 978-0-7914-7259-0...