Egaku - Drawing

Japanese: 恵鍔 - えがく
Egaku - Drawing


[Situation and position]

[Terrain]
A province in south-central China. It is called Zhejiang for short. Its area is about 102,000 km2 . Its population is 43.43 million (1996). 80% of the province is mountainous, with the largest plains being the coast of Hangzhou Bay in the north (the Zhejiang North Plain) and the basin (the Jinqu Basin) that opens up in the middle reaches of the Qiantang River. The rest are small basins formed in the mountains by tributaries of the Qiantang River, the Lingjiang River, the Oujiang River, and other rivers, and small plains formed in the inner bays of the coast. The mountainous region includes the Tianmu Mountains to the west of the Qiantang River, which form the border with Anhui Province. To the east, Mount Kuaiji, Mount Tiantai, Mount Xianxialing, Mount Guocang, and Mount Yandang run from southwest to northeast, forming the border with Fujian. …

From Mount Putuo

...It belongs to Putuo County. In the second year of the Zhenming era (916) during the Later Liang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, the Japanese monk Egaku enshrined a statue of Kannon here on his way home from Mount Wutai and built a temple, which attracted people's faith and made it one of the four great mountains for Chinese Buddhists as a sacred place of Kannon. It consists of a group of Buddhist temples on the front and back mountains, with the main temples being Puji Temple on the front mountain and Fayu Temple on the back mountain, and it is also famous as a summer resort for sightseeing. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Keitsuba" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


【形勢と位置】

[地勢]
 中国華中南東部の省。浙と簡称する。面積約10.2万km2。人口4343万(1996)。省域の80%は山地で,平地は北部の杭州湾沿岸(浙北平野)と,銭塘江の中流部に開ける盆地(金衢盆地)が大きなもので,あとは銭塘江の支流や,霊江,甌江などの河川が山地中につくる小盆地や,海岸の湾奥に形成される小平野である。山地は,銭塘江より西に天目山地があり,安徽省との境をなす。東には会稽山,天台山,仙霞嶺,括蒼山,雁蕩山などが南西より北東に走り,福建との境をなす。…

【普陀山】より

…普陀県に所属する。五代の後梁の貞明2年(916),日本僧の恵鍔(えがく)が五台山より帰国の途中,ここに観音像をまつり,寺を建ててから人々の信仰を集め,観音の霊場として中国仏教徒の四大名山の一つとなった。前後2山の仏寺群からなり,前山は普済寺,後山は法雨寺が中心で,遊覧避暑地としても有名である。…

※「恵鍔」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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