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Updated: May 13, 2025
But grown people do not go to the Sai-no-Kawara when they die. And the young student, leaving the Roku-Jizo, leads the way to other strange surprises, guiding me among the tombs, showing me the sculptured divinities. Some of them are quaintly touching; all are interesting; a few are positively beautiful. The greater number have nimbi.
All the tortures known to medieval Japan were being elsewhere deftly practised by swarms of devils. After reviewing them, we visited the Sai-no-Kawara, and saw Jizo with a child in his arms, and a circle of other children running swiftly around him, to escape from demons who brandished their clubs and ground their teeth.
Were she not, she would hire a boat and scatter her tiny papers far away upon the bosom of the lake. But why should the papers be cast into running water? A good old Tendai priest tells me that originally the rite was only for the souls of the drowned. But now these gentle hearts believe that all waters flow downward to the Shadow-world and through the Sai-no-Kawara, where Jizo is.
'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.
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