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Updated: May 26, 2025
Throned to right and left against the high walls tower nine grim figures five on one side, four on the other wearing strange crowns with trumpet-shapen ornaments; figures hoary with centuries, and so like to the icon of Emma, which I saw at Kuboyama, that I ask, 'Are all these Emma? 'Oh, no! my guide answers; 'these are his attendants only the Jiu-O, the Ten Kings. 'But there are only nine? I query.
I have seen before, in the cemetery of Kuboyama, this kneeling woman with countless shadowy hands; and this figure tiara-coiffed, slumbering with one knee raised, and cheek pillowed upon the left hand the placid and pathetic symbol of the perpetual rest. Others, like Madonnas, hold lotus-flowers, and their feet rest upon the coils of a serpent.
'Oh, Akira! you must tell me something more about Jizo, and the ghosts of the children in the Sai-no-Kawara. 'I cannot tell you much more, answers Akira, smiling at my interest in this charming divinity; 'but if you will come with me now to Kuboyama, I will show you, in one of the temples there, pictures of the Sai-no-Kawara and of Jizo, and the Judgment of Souls.
So we take our way in two jinricksha to the Temple Rinko-ji, on Kuboyama.
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