"Katsurakawa Myo-o-in Historical Materials"

Japanese: 《葛川明王院史料》 - かつらがわみょうおういんしりょう
"Katsurakawa Myo-o-in Historical Materials"

...When ascetics go into seclusion, they write the year and Buddhist name on a stupa called a hide, and there are over 500 hide-writing tablets remaining, with the oldest dating back to 1204 (Genkyu 1). The temple also houses over 3,000 ancient documents dating back to the Heian period, and the medieval portion has been published as the Katsukawa Myoo-in Historical Materials, making it a valuable subject for research into medieval mountain village life. The main hall enshrines the unique triad of Thousand-Armed Kannon, Acala, and Bishamonten, and the guardian Jinushi Shrine is a building with a frog-legged structure from the late Muromachi period. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Katsurakawa Myooin Historical Materials" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…行者は参籠の際,牌伝(ひで)と呼ばれる卒塔婆に年号や法名を書いて収め,1204年(元久1)を最古として500本に上る参籠札がのこされている。また平安時代以来の3000点以上の古文書を蔵し,中世の部分は《葛川明王院史料》として出版され,中世山村生活の貴重な研究対象となっている。本堂には千手観音・不動明王・毘沙門天の特異な三尊をまつり,鎮守の地主神社は室町後期の蟇股(かえるまた)をそなえた建築である。…

※「《葛川明王院史料》」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。

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