{"id":261,"date":"2010-08-06T20:48:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/?p=261"},"modified":"2020-07-20T05:34:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T10:34:11","slug":"buddha-statues-japan-august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Buddha Statues &#038; Japan &#8211; August 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Subscribers,<br \/>\nNew knowledge updates for\u00a0August 2010.<\/p>\n<h3>Interview with Mark Schumacher (The Japan Times)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Kamakura expat at one with all Buddhist deities<\/strong> | The Japan Times Online<br \/>\nDetails on my\u00a015-year journey studying the deities of Japan. See <a href=\"https:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20100807a1.html\">https:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20100807a1.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A-to-Z Photo Dictionary of Japanese Buddhism<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>MARISHITEN \u6469\u5229\u652f\u5929 &#8211; God\/Goddess of prosperity,\u00a0warrior class,\u00a0&amp; entertainers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.onmarkproductions.com\/html\/kankiten-idaten-other-tenbu.html#marishiten\">www.onmarkproductions.com\/html\/kankiten-idaten-other-tenbu.html#marishiten<\/a><br \/>\nAdded many photos and revised text. Introduced to Japan in the early 9th century, Marici (Jp. Marishi) means &#8220;light&#8221; or &#8220;mirage.&#8221; S\/he was worshipped by warriors, especially archers, from the middle ages onward for the gift of invisibility and was invoked in order to escape the notice of one&#8217;s enemies. Those who worship Marishiten are said to be free of danger from all misfortune and evil, robbers, natural disaster, poisonous drugs, and other harm. Marishiten&#8217;s cult peaked in the Edo era but declined thereafter owing to the dismantling of the feudal system, to the abolishment of the samurai class, and to the rising popularity of goddess Benzaiten, who has largely supplanted Marishiten as an object of veneration in modern times.<\/li>\n<li>ZODIAC LORE.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.onmarkproductions.com\/html\/12-zodiac.shtml\">www.onmarkproductions.com\/html\/12-zodiac.shtml<\/a><br \/>\nAdded photos and text, and expanded divination section.<\/li>\n<li>SH\u014cMEN KONG\u014c\u00a0\u9752\u9762\u91d1\u525b &#8211; Multi-armed esoteric (tantric) deity.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.onmarkproductions.com\/html\/monkey-koushin-p3.html#shomen-kongo\">www.onmarkproductions.com\/html\/monkey-koushin-p3.html#shomen-kongo<\/a><br \/>\nAdded many photos and expanded text. This deity is said to protect believers from illness, eye problems, breathing disorders, and many other ailments. Since the Kamakura period, Sh\u014dmen Kong\u014d has been a key player in the K\u014dshin cult. This cult believes that on the eve of the unlucky K\u014dshin day (monkey day), it is particularly easy to have your life shortened. In order to counteract this danger, believers stay awake through the night gathered before scrolls of Sh\u014dmen Kong\u014d (shown depicted atop three monkeys, &#8220;See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil&#8221;). Even tody, during K\u014dshin rituals, believers gather before scrolls of Sh\u014dmen Kong\u014d and are pummeled, from head to legs, with a wooden monkey figurine, which apparently ensures future health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ENJOY<br \/>\nmark<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Subscribers, New knowledge updates for\u00a0August 2010. Interview with Mark Schumacher (The Japan Times) Kamakura expat at one with all Buddhist deities | The Japan Times Online Details on my\u00a015-year journey studying the deities of Japan. See https:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20100807a1.html A-to-Z Photo Dictionary of Japanese Buddhism MARISHITEN \u6469\u5229\u652f\u5929 &#8211; God\/Goddess of prosperity,\u00a0warrior class,\u00a0&amp; entertainers. www.onmarkproductions.com\/html\/kankiten-idaten-other-tenbu.html#marishiten Added many [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddha-and-buddhist-statues-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}