{"id":1368,"date":"2008-12-06T14:37:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T21:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2008-12-06T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T21:40:44","slug":"%e5%85%ad%e5%9c%b0%e8%94%b5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/%e5%85%ad%e5%9c%b0%e8%94%b5\/","title":{"rendered":"\u516d\u5730\u8535"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1114trimb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1367\" title=\"rokujizo the six jizo\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1114trimb-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1114trimb-800x606.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1114trimb-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1114trimb.jpg 1371w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Blessed are they who do not too much fear the gods which they have made!&#8230;<BR><BR>Descending the shadowed steps, I find myself face to face with six little statues about three feet high, standing in a row upon one long pedestal. The first holds a Buddhist incense box; the second, a lotsu; the third, a pilgrim&#8217;s staff; the fourth, the beads of a Buddhist rosary; the fifth stands in the attitude of prayer, with hands joined; the sixth bears in one hand the <em>shakujou<\/em>, or mendicant priest&#8217;s staff, having six rings attached to the top of it, and in the other hand the mystic jewel, <em>nioi houjiu<\/em>, by virtue whereof all desires may be accomplished&#8230; Archaic, mysterious, but inexplicably touching, all these soft childish faces are.<BR><BR><em>Roku Jizou<\/em> &#8212; &#8220;The Six Jizou&#8221; &#8212; these images are called in the speech of the people&#8230;&#8221; (Lafcadio Hearn, 1894, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1604247487\/rpcman\" target=\"_new\">Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan<\/a><\/em>, pp. 35, 43)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Blessed are they who do not too much fear the gods which they have made!&#8230;Descending the shadowed steps, I find myself face to face with six little statues about three feet high, standing in a row upon one long pedestal. The first holds a Buddhist incense box; the second, a lotsu; the third, a pilgrim&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[101,88,166,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}