Henro Pilgrims Muenbotoke

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669788.post-1117766586583469942005-06-02T19:33:00.000-07:002008-08-02T00:23:54.876-07:00Henro Pilgrims Muenbotoke<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO　　TOP . ]</a> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::　 <center>Graves of the unknown pilgrims muenbotoke 無縁仏</center> <table style="BORDER-RIGHT: white 0pt outset; BORDER-TOP: white 0pt outset; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: white 0pt outset; WIDTH: 655px; BORDER-BOTTOM: white 0pt outset; mso-padding-alt: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt; mso-cellspacing: 0mm" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="655" border="1"><tbody><tr><td style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 0.75pt inset; PADDING-RIGHT: 3pt; BORDER-TOP: black 0.75pt inset; PADDING-LEFT: 3pt; BACKGROUND: #cccccc; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 0.75pt inset; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 3pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 0.75pt inset" width="100%"><center> <img src="http://www.geocities.com/gabigreve2000/muenbotoke.jpg" /> graves of the unknown - pilgrims faces faded into stone <img src="http://www.geocities.com/gabigreve2000/muenbotoke02.jpg" /> 無縁仏　　遍路の顔も　石に消え </center> <?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></td></tr></tbody></table> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Muenbotoke -The dead without any connection They are the spirits of persons who have died without a family to perform posthumous rites at the grave for them. They are socially unrelated spirits, unbonded with the social fabric. They are "homeless", with no regular affiliation to a Japanese houshold. When a pilgrim without traceable relatives dies during the Shikoku pilgrimage, the local people will take care of the burial rites and his ashes are finally layed to rest in this kind of mass grave. It usually belongs to a temple where the headpriest can say the necessary prayers for the souls to find peace in the next world. Thus the villagers make sure the souls do not come back and haunt the place where they died. This has been going on since many hundred years. .. .. .. .. .. Suggested reading: FACING THE SPIRITS: ILLNESS AND HEALING IN A JAPANESE COMMUNITY <a href="http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/usund/ingl/kalland.html">http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/usund/ingl/kalland.html</a> Safekeep copy is here <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DarumaArchives-002/message/63">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DarumaArchives-002/message/63</a> 1. Inauspiciousness and pollution <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/csacpub/Mono19/Html/wrapped_gifts-1_-5.html">http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/csacpub/Mono19/Html/wrapped_gifts-1_-5.html</a> Abortion and Ritual in Japan <a href="http://blog.livedoor.jp/worldkigo/archives/24097595.html"> <img src="http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/worldkigo/imgs/3/a/3a0391da-s.jpg" border="0" /></a> Click the photo to read the text. By John Traphagan http://www.prc.utexas.edu/photogallery/japan-jizo.html <a href="http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/child-protectors.html">Child Protectors</a> by Mark Schumacher My article about the Limbo for Dead Children, Sai no Kawara <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/502">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/502</a> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Muenbotoke Graves Yonago <a title="22 graves for the unknown muen botoke by grevegabi4000, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/grevegabi4000/2518016724/"><img height="293" alt="22 graves for the unknown muen botoke" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2322/2518016724_58baecb374.jpg" width="400" /></a> <a href="http://darumapilgrim.blogspot.com/2006/12/izumo-kaido.html">Izumo Kaido, The Old Road of Izumo 出雲街道</a> Mihara, Temple Gokuraku-Ji <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabigreve2000/641828284/in/set-72157600520234147"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1003/641828284_dcd69f1473.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/gabigreve2000/miharadaruma.html">Visiting Mihara Daruma and the Aoyama Collection</a> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: <a href="http://darumapilgrim.blogspot.com/2005/05/shikoku-summer-2005.html">Shikoku Summer 2005</a> Our own Haiku Pilgrimage May 2005 .. .. .. .. .. Henro, a Kigo for Haiku <a href="http://www.geocities.com/worldkigo/pilgrimagehenro.html">Pilgrimage (henro) Part 1 </a> <a href="http://worldkigo2005.blogspot.com/2006/04/pilgrimage-henro-05.html">Pilgrimage Part 2</a> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: <a href="http://darumapilgrim.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_darumapilgrim_archive.html">Henro Pilgirms Culture and Haiku </a> <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO　　TOP . ]</a> <a href="http://darumasan.blogspot.com/">[ . BACK to DARUMA　MUSEUM　TOP . ]</a> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::　<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8669788-111776658658346994?l=happyhaiku.blogspot.com'/></div>Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.com12