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Temple Sanpo-Ji 三寳寺 （さんぽうじ）Sanpooji 三宝寺 Sanpoji
A Nichiren sect temple founded in December 8 1628.
The statue in the Myoken-do Hall was carved around the middle of the Edo period and the deity it depicts is affectionately known as 'the Myoken of Narutaki.' Chinese quince trees line the approach to the temple while the cherry trees next to the Main Hall are said to have been transplanted from the Imperial Palace. Both quince and cherry trees are well known features of the temple.
On the first Sat and Sun in December, the temple bustles with people who come to take part in the
'Nichirenshu no Daikodaki' or 'Nichiren White Stewing Radish Festival.'
source : kaiwai.city.kyoto.jpNarutaki no Myoken-san
Matsumoto-cho Narutaki Ukyo-ku京都市右京区鳴滝松本町32
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Mikuji - fortune telling slips in a wooden Daruma 
source : Copyright (C) 2009 ZauCatshttp://www.geocities.jp/philn/kyoto/ukyoku/sanpoji/sanpoji11.html
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厄落としの大根焚き（お会式）Daikotaki
Cooking Radishes for Nichirenkigo for mid-winter
This festival is in memorial of Saint Nichiren and Nichiro 日朗上人.
If you eat a piece of the radish stew, you will be protected for the coming year and also not contract palsy 中風封じ祈祷.
Radishes are cooked with tofu from Saga 嵯峨豆腐.
When believers gave this soup to Nichiren, he tasted it and said
大根は大仏堂の大釘の如し、
あじわいは『とうり天』の甘露のごとし」
The big radish is like a nail of the big Buddha Hall.
It tasts like the sweet dew in the paradise of Tooriten.
There is also cooked rice with yuzu citron flavor, yuzu gohan ゆず御飯, another speciality which Nichiren liked very much and praized highly as food to warm the body.
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Saint Nichiren 日蓮上人 and related KIGOBishamonten and the Tooriten paradise とう利天 Myooken Bosatsu 妙見菩薩 Myoken Bosastu Daikodaki (daikotaki) 大根焚 Cooking large radishes kigo for mid-winter
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