Tsukuda Tendaiko Ikuchizoson, enshrined on Tsukuda Island, is known as a different space protected by elegant Jizo-do and large ginkgo trees in a narrow alley. In the hall, lanterns donated by believers are displayed in a row, and beautiful flowers are always handed out, and the depth of faith is conveyed (top photo: guardian of children and travelers engraved in the center).
By the way, I don't know when this Tsukuda guardian of children and travelers was built. If you look closely at the engraved Jizo statue depicted on the polished stone slab, it says, "Ishijizoson 84,000-storied application, Tendai Kurahioka Myo Transport." By relying on this, I visited "Jomeiin" written on Engi.
Jomei-in Temple is located in Ueno Sakuragi 2-chome, Taito-ku (center of photo). It is located north of Kanei-ji Temple, at the entrance of Yanaka Cemetery. You will see main hall when you pass through the gate of the Kyoho period, which is called "Toeizan Jomeiin". There is Jizo-do hall on the left. One of the Edo Rokujizos, the sixth Jizo of the disappearing Fukagawa Eidaiji Temple, was rebuilt. It is also called "Jizo-ji".
A stone guardian of children and travelers is erected all over the temple grounds, which is a masterpiece (lower photo). If you look over, there are three kinds of Jizo statues. I don't know how to call it, but it is a carved Jizo statue, a tombstone-shaped Jizo statue, and a carved Jizo statue engraved on natural stones like Tsukuda. Tsukuda's auspicious luck says, "It is rare to be engraved on natural stones," but it is often found in this temple and is never uncommon.
The explanation board of the Taito Ward Board of Education, which was set up beside the gate pillar of "84,000 Jizo", had a key to elucidation. Excerpted from there, "The temple was founded in 1666 as one of the thirty-six monks of Kanei-ji Temple. The temple of Jizo worship began in the era of the 38th Jizo Hioka Myoun Kazuhisa, entered Jomeiin in 1879, and in 1879 (1879), he made a great oath to build 84,000 bodies." .
Then, Jizo Tsukuda was also given a guardian of children and travelers picture that was copied by Jonain's Myoun Kazuo during the Meiji era, and then engraved. The Engi of Tsukuda guardian of children and travelers has a description from the middle of the Edo period, and its origins are spelled out. It is convinced that it is from the religion of Jonain that "Tendai" is attached to Tsukuda Jizoson. @ Akira Makibuchi
