Showing posts with label Emon Saburo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emon Saburo. Show all posts

Temple 12
(Thu., Oct. 18th, 2001)


 Thursday, October 18th, 2001
The character known as Emon Saburo figures largely on this page. Read more about him in "The Legend of Emon Saburo" (Coming soon)

See here for the distances between temples

 The Shikoku Pilgrimage

Temples 46-51 and Two Bangais
(Wed., Oct. 31, 2001)


 Wednesday, October 31st, 2001
See here for the distances between temples

 The Shikoku Pilgrimage

Words-and-Pictures:
The Sons of Emon Saburo

Note: This selection of Words-and-Pictures was made on October 31, 2001, as I visited Japan's Shikoku Pilgrimage.

These mounds are part of a major legend of the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage: the Legend of Emon Saburo. The graves of Emon Saburo's sons are located between on the Pilgrimage. More specifically, they are in a rice field located between a bangai (unnumbered temple) representing Emon Saburo's front gate, and another bangai at the site of the hermitage where Kobo Daishi was living at the time of the story. You can read more about my visit to these graves, and more about Emon Saburo's legend, in my Logbook.