"Gyoki Shikimoku"

...Also, the poem "When I hear the mountain chicken's horohoro naku koe kikeba I think of my mother," which is included in the Gyokuyoshu as a song by Bodhisattva Gyoki, is widely known, perhaps because it well expresses the Japanese view of nature. There are many things that show the breadth of the traditions surrounding Gyoki, such as the many folk teaching books that are attributed to Gyoki, including the Gyoki Shikimoku (1622, written by Ryosada), and the fact that the original version of the map of Japan used before the Middle Ages is said to have been created by Gyoki and is called the Gyoki Map. [Osumi Kazuo]...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the Gyoki Code are listed below.

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…また《玉葉集》に行基菩薩の歌として収められている〈山どりのほろほろとなくこゑきけばちちかとぞおもふ母かとぞおもふ〉という歌は，日本人の自然観をよくあらわしているためか，広く知られている。《行基式目》(1622，良定著)をはじめ，行基に仮託される民間の教訓書の多さ，中世以前に用いられた日本全図の原形が行基によって作られたと伝えられ，行基図と呼ばれていることなど，行基に関する伝承のひろがりを示すものは多い。【大隅 和雄】。…

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