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Updated: June 21, 2025
'The Bon-ichi, answers Akira, 'is a market at which will be sold all things required for the Festival of the Dead; and the Festival of the Dead will begin to-morrow, when all the altars of the temples and all the shrines in the homes of good Buddhists will be made beautiful. 'Then I want to see the Bon-ichi, Akira, and I should also like to see a Buddhist shrine a household shrine.
Nishida, explaining the object of your visit, has made it a pleasure for us to receive you thus. Again I express my thanks; and after a second exchange of courtesies the conversation continues through the medium of Akira. 'Is not this great temple of Kitzuki, I inquire, 'older than the temples of Ise? 'Older by far, replies the Guji; 'so old, indeed, that we do not well know the age of it.
Only by the most diligent piety can he hope to escape the most frightful calamities. And there shall be no felicity in his portion. 'All the same, we are fortunate, declares Akira. 'Twice out of three times we have found luck. Now we will go to see another statue of Buddha. And he guides me, through many curious streets, to the southern verge of the city.
For this is the Busshoe, the festival of the Birthday of Buddha. But he is very small, only a few inches high. If you want to see a great Buddha, you must go to Kamakura. There is a Buddha in that place, sitting upon a lotus; and he is fifty feet high. So I go forth under the guidance of Akira. He says he may be able to show me 'some curious things.
Akira also tells me this: It is related in the seventh volume of the book Kamakurashi that there was formerly at Kamakura a temple called Emmei-ji, in which there was enshrined a famous statue of Jizo, called Hadaka-Jizo, or Naked Jizo. The statue was indeed naked, but clothes were put upon it; and it stood upright with its feet upon a chessboard.
'With the God of Hindrances and Obstacles, O Akira I have had more than a passing acquaintance. Tell me of the others. 'I know little about any of them, answers Akira, 'excepting Bimbogami. It is said there are two gods who always go together, Fuku-no-Kami, who is the God of Luck, and Bimbogami, who is the God of Poverty. The first is white, and the second is black.
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