Shorin-Zan Takasaki

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Temple Shorin-Zan in Takasaki
Shoorinzan 少林山達磨寺

Shorinzan Dharma-ji Temple,
296, Hanataka-machi, Takasaki city, Gunma pref.
TEL.027-322-8800

Long ago on the banks of the Usui River　碓氷川, there was a thatched hut housing a statue of Kannon　観音様, the bodhisattva of compassion. Legend has it that after a flood the villagers found an old log of fragrant wood and placed it in the hut. One day, during the Enpoo period (circa 1680), an old ascetic named Ichiryo-koji 一了居士　arrived and reverently carved a seated figure of Daruma Daishi out of the piece of fragrant wood, praying three times after each stroke.
Subsequently, both statues were enshrined there.

. ittoo sanrai 一刀三礼 itto sanrai
carving one stroke with the blade
and praying three times .


The Fuku-Daruma originated here at the Shorinzan darumaji. Shinetsu, the founder of this temple, began a custom of giving the farmers pictures of Bodhidharma, which he would draw with a single brushstroke, as a talisman to ward off evil during the year.

Bruno Taut, the German architect, spent some time at this temple.

Fucha-ryori, a type of Shojinryori or vegetarian cooking, is a specialty served after inportant rituals and annual events at the temple.



Temple HP in English : SYORINZAN DARUMA-JI


Zen Wisdom Words from the Obaku sect

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高崎少林山のだるま市 Daruma Market


The temple Shorin-zan belongs to the Obaku Sect of Zen and is known as the place of origin of the Good Luck Daruma (engi Daruma 縁起だるま).
My Reference about the Daruma Market


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January 6th and 7th The Daruma Doll Festival is held at the Shorinzan Temple where the Daruma Dolls were first invented. Over 400,000 people from all over the Kanto Plain come to buy new good-luck dolls for the year. Takasaki produces 80% of Japan's Daruma Dolls. One can identify a Takasaki Daruma Doll by the unique way in which the eyebrow and mustache is drawn.There is a also a 24-hour reading of sutras praying for world peace by the monks at Shorinzan.
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My friends visited Shorin-Zan in 2013.

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Daruma Temples


Takasaki Daruma 高崎達磨
and Town Mascot
inclucing
上毛かるた（じょうもうかるた）

Jomo Karuta (Joomoo Karuta) with Daruma
shoorinji shorinji



. Folk Toys from Gunma .



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鬼城忌や俳人多き城下町
kijooki ya haijin ooki jookamachi

Kijo Memorial Day -
so many haiku poets
in the castle town

Furukawa Shimozuru 古川芋蔓


. Murakami Kijoo 村上鬼城 Murakami Kijo .


. jookamachi 城下町 Jokamachi, castle town .


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