Amanojaku

天の邪鬼　春の日差しに　悪さなし you can't do harm in the spring sunshine - pretty monsterlin

Look at more of these monsterlins, called
Ama no Jaku (Amanjaku)

The Japanese story is about our local monsterlin Amanjaku in Ohaga. My friend, the potter Takagaki Mondo 高垣門土, makes these little figures from Bizen Pottery.


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天邪鬼 Heavenly Evil Spirit

. アマンジャク( Jizai-Ten 自在天. Daijizaiten 大自在天) .

Amanojaku is a small demon-like creature who can provoke a person’s deepest and darkest desires, instigating him to do evil deeds.
In the fairytale “Urikohime”　瓜子姫, a girl borne from a gourd was raised by an elderly couple, sheltering her from evil. One day she let Amanojaku inside the house and he killed her, using her skin to impersonate her.



アマノサグ Amanosagu from Aomori
tells the story of Urihime 瓜姫子 from 五戸町 Gonohe Town.
. . . The Amanojaku impersonating the Girl was to be wed. At the Wedding Party the "Girl" ate all the food and was thrown out of the house as a bakayome 馬鹿嫁 useless, dumb bride.

. Legends about Plants　植物と伝説　shokubutsu to densetsu .

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The amanojaku is commonly held to be derived from
Amanosagume (天探女), a wicked deity in Shintō myth, which shares the amanojaku's contrary nature and ability to see into a person's heart, "a very perverted demon".

The creature has also entered Buddhist thought, perhaps via syncretism with the yasha, where it is considered an opponent of Buddhist teachings. It is commonly depicted as being trampled on and subdued into righteousness by Bishamonten or one of the other Shitennō.
In this context it is also called a jaki (邪鬼).
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jakibarai 邪気払い to purify the place or person from evil influence

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Amanojaku at temple Gansenji, Kyoto

岩船寺の三重の塔を支える天邪鬼



amanojaku no mayoke no o-mamori 天邪鬼の魔除のお守り
amulet with Amanojaku

Temple Gansenji 岩船寺
京都府木津川市加茂町岩船上ノ門４３

. Amulets and Talismans from Japan .　

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. Legends about Amanojaku 天邪鬼 .

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