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Jibo Kannon – "Compassionate-mother Kannon". Kannon as a woman holding an infant. Became especially popular in Japan when suppressed Christians used the image to represent the Virgin Mary and Christ Child. Koyasu Kannon – "Safe-childbirth Kannon". Kannon as a woman, holding or often nursing an infant. Predates Jibo Kannon by several centuries.
The homepage of Ohfuna-Kannon-ji. Ōfuna Kannon Temple (大船観音寺, Ōfuna Kannonji) is a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The statue stands at 25 meters/82 feet tall and weighs nearly 2,000 tons. It depicts the East Asian bodhisattva (a being that foregoes their nirvana in order to stay on Earth and help people ...
Kakure Kirishitan ( Japanese: 隠れキリシタン, lit. 'hidden Christians') is a modern term for a member of the Catholic Church in Japan who went underground at the start of the Edo period in the early 17th century (lifted in 1873) due to Christianity's repression by the Tokugawa shogunate (April 1638). [ 1][ 2][ 3]
Kannon (銅造観音菩薩立像, dōzō kannon bosatsu ryūzō) or Yumechigai Kannon (夢違観音) [22] [93] Its common name derives from the belief that the statue could change bad dreams into good dreams. Formerly the principal statue of the Tōin eden (東院絵殿). One of four National Treasure standing Kannon Bosatsu statues at Hōryū-ji.
The Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage (西国三十三所, Saigoku Sanjūsan-sho) is a pilgrimage of thirty-three Buddhist temples throughout the Kansai region of Japan, similar to the Shikoku Pilgrimage. In addition to the official thirty-three temples, there are an additional three known as bangai (番外). The principal image in each temple is ...
Japanese sculpture. Sculpture in Japan began with the clay figure. Towards the end of the long Neolithic Jōmon period, "flame-rimmed" pottery vessels had sculptural extensions to the rim, [ 1] and very stylized pottery dogū figures were produced, many with the characteristic "snow-goggle" eyes. During the Kofun period of the 3rd to 6th ...
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It is the 24th temple of the Owari Thirty-Three Kannon Temples and the fifth of the Owari Saigoku Thirty-Three Kannon Temples. The main image of the temple, the Thousand-Armed Kannon, is said to grant blessings for those who wish to breastfeed, and it is known as the only "breastfeeding temple" in Japan. According to legend, in 1665, a woman ...