Pilgrimage (henro)
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Pilgrimage in Shikoku (henro)
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Observance
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Explanation
Please read part 1 of this entry here:
Pilgrimage (henro) Part 1
Pilgrims at temple Nr. 55, Nankoo-Boo in Imabari, Shikoku.
Life is a pilgrimage!
A poster to promote the Shikoku Pilgrimage.
© Photo Gabi Greve
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giving alms to henro pilgrims, o-settai, settai 摂待
kigo for autumn
As the poor pilgrims walk along, they are supported by the local population, who see them as Kobo Daishi himself. They get a lot of food offerings, but also robes or money. Once I got a cotton towel to wipe the sweat. Even a ride in a car can be o-settai.Some villages have established a small stall with tables and seats at the village entrance, where the housewifes take turn in praparing tea and sweets for the tired pilgrims.
Other households provide free beds for one night, together with a small meal in the monring, some for many generations. They have become friends with the regular pilgrims, who take the tour many times in their lives.
At one place in front of a temple, an old woman was handing out mikan oranges, greeting each pilgrim with a smile, saying "Welcome to this temple, dear Kobo Daishi san!". For her, we were all the same re-incarnations of Kukai.
O-Settai is a way for the local people to "collect good points" to improve their karma in the next re-incarnation.
If you receive a gift of this kind, you have to hand over one of your pilgrim's prayer slips.
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Shikoku Fudo Pilgrims to 36 temples
四国三十六不動尊霊場
My Pilgrims Guide
... group/Darumasan-Japan/message/424
... group/Darumasan-Japan/message/425
...group/Darumasan-Japan/426
Learn more about Pilgrims stamps books and all the equipment a pilgrim needs on the road.
... www.onmarkproductions.com/
Mark Schumacher
A pilgrimage to a Shinto shrine is called: Mairi
Three famous Shinto Pilgrimages
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Worldwide use
THE HAJJ: PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA
One of a Muslim's duties, as described in the Five Pillars of Islam, is to go on Hajj at least once during his or her lifetime. This is a pilgrimage to Makkah (Mecca, Mekka) in Saudi Arabia. Approximately two million Muslims went in 1999, of which about one million were from Saudi Arabia, and 6,000 were from the U.S. Council on American-Islamic Relations estimated in 2006 that "some 10,000 American Muslims go on Hajj each year."
source : www.religioustolerance.org
her pilgrimage bag -
for the eleventh night
a pink neglige
Heike Gewi Yemen, July 2008
Kigo Hotline
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INDIA
kamakhya on nilachal~
pilgrims trekking together
to mother's womb
This was written during a visit to Kamakhya Temple near Guwahati in Assam (North East India) recently. It is on a mountain named Nilachal (meaning Blue Mountain). The deity ie. Goddess Kamakhya is worshipped here in the 'yoni' form. It is a great Shakti peeth and a seat of Tantric cult of Hinduism.
Sunil Uniyal, India, August 2008
Kigo Hotline
More Reference about the Temple
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Things found on the way
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HAIKU
graves of the unknown -
pilgrims faces faded
into stone
Henro Pilgrims .. 遍路と無縁仏
Read some more of my Henro Haiku.
Shikoku Summer 2005
Gabi Greve
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竹林 上り下りの 遍路道
takebayashi nobori kudari no henromichi
bamboo grove -
the pilgrim's path leads
up and down
Gabi Greve, Shiraishi Pilgrimage, June 2006
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Early in his career, Santoka (1882-1940) was a henro.
autumn wind for all my walking . . . for all my walking . . .
"Where is the Way?" he was once asked.
"Under your feet," he replied.
Read a long article about pilgrims by Michael Hoffman .
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暑さにも負けず遍路の道長き
atsusa ni mo makezu henro no michi nagaki
not even yielding
to the great heat ...
pilgrim on the road
Gabi Greve, July 2008, Fudo Pilgrimage Yamaguchi
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Related words
***** Grave (haka)
***** SAIJIKI of Japanese Ceremonies and Festivals
***** Henro Pilgrims Culture and Haiku
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posted by Gabi Greve @ 4/09/2006
7 Comments:
コメントありがとうございます。
四国、遍路のことも広く紹介いただけたら嬉しいです。
また、四国で会いましょう。
Thank you for a comment.
It is glad if you can also introduce the thing of Shikoku and a pilgrimage widely.
Moreover, let's meet in Shikoku.
flowers breeze
on the pilgrim's path ~
musical air
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The Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage
The Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage covers 33 temples dedicated to Kannon in Western Japan and is the most famous of Japanese pilgrimages. Kannon (sometimes Kanzeon or Kwannon) is the Japanese name for the bodhisattva Avalokitasvara, or Bodhisattva of Compassion, one of whose 33 manifestations (the only female one) corresponds to the Chinese bodhisattva Kuan-yin, known in the West as the "Goddess of Mercy."
Kannon's ability to take 33 different forms is the reason why there are 33 temples on this 1500-mile pilgrimage that stretches from Lake Biwa to Kobe and touches Japan's east and west coasts.
The pilgrimage route dates from the 11th Century, but many of the temples were pilgrimages in their own right beforehand and some date back to the 7th Century.
It's a "miracle pilgrimage," and each temple is associated with a miracle related to Kannon. At Kannonsho-ji, for instance, the temple is said to have been founded at the request of a merman.
With a full listing of all the temples !
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Pilgrims Haiku by Issa
Tr. David Lanoue
雪どけや順礼衆も朝の声
yuki-doke ya junrei shû mo asa no koe
melting snow--
the morning voices
of pilgrims
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行先も只秋風ぞ小順礼
yukisaki mo tada aki kaze zo kojunrei
his destination
only the autumn wind...
little pilgrim
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春風や小薮小祭小順礼
haru kaze ya ko yabu ko matsuri ko junrei
spring breeze--
a little thicket, little festival
little pilgrim
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親よぶや凧上ながら小順礼
oya yobu ya tako age nagara ko junrei
calling his parents
while his kite rises!
little pilgrim
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小順礼もらひながらや凧
ko junrei morai nagara ya ikanobori
the little pilgrim
while receiving alms
flies a kite
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散る花に順礼帳も開帳哉
chiru hana ni junreichô mo kaichô kana
into the scattering blooms
pilgrims
and Buddha
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http://haikuguy.com/issa/search.php?keywords=&romaji=junrei&comment=&year=
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fuji saku ya junrei no koe tori no koe
wisteria in bloom--
voices of pilgrims
voices of birds
Issa 1795
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/31201
春風や 遍路飯くふ 仁王門
harukaze ya henro meshi kuu Niomon
spring breeze
pilgrims eating rice
Nio Gate
Masaoka Shiki,
tr. Ad G. Blankestijn
Haiku about the Nio Gate
Pilgrimages were/are? supposed to be occasions for travel and reflection. Sometimes, though, it's the travelling bit that gets more attention, be it Lourdes, Mecca, or Santiago de Compostela.
his wallet open
for a new pair of shoes
young pilgrim
Seriously, though, other memories come to mind as well.
under the eyes
of the Black Madonna
his first proposal
:>) Ella
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