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No.285 Kisimojin (Zoshigaya)

(It is the Tokyo guide to introduce by the image and the column).

The goddess of children image


The goddess of children is an easy delivery and the God of child 育. That the goddess of children (Eiroku 4) who is deified at Homyo temple in Zoshigaya cleansed and to have supplied the image which was dug out in 1561 to the temple build after that (Tensho 6) of being the beginning, the people in the village build a hall in 1578 and lead to the present. but the goddess of children was the cruel person who has eaten nearby children , It says that it swore to become the god of easy delivery and child 育 after having been hidden and knowing the grief of the parent who lost a child by it and that it became worshiped in goddess of children's child in the end from the Buddha style. Way, are often pronounced (the stop name of the metropolitan streetcar, too, "coming and being "BOZIN"") with "coming and being "BOZIN"" PAR=0ETC but to call ""MOZIN" of coming" as the Buddhism term is right Also, a corner above is taken by the character of goddess of children's "bogle".

The approach to Shrine entrance and the zelkova tree row
The zelkova tree row of 400 of ages of the tree stands in line at the approach to Shrine from the stop of the metropolitan streetcar in front of the goddess of children. As the one where this, too, leaves a view in the Edo period, it is valuable existence and it is specified by the natural monument in the city.

Once, Zoshigaya "the hand creating city" are hosted every month.
(It hosts at the same time at the goddess of children hall and in Ootori shrine).
Today was a date by chance.

But to join becomes a condition in the one which itself always did in hand-made about "the hand creating city"
The in line standing articles were pretty and there were many, too, ones of the woman taste and they were bustling by a lot of persons.

The nave
It notices that there is not "a point" in the character of "the bogle".

A wish about the child is written at the votive picture tablet.


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