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Daruma dolls deposited at Katsuōji Temple (勝尾寺) in Minō, Osaka Prefecture, donated back after the owners’ wishes were fulfilled
Photo by ボブ [Bobu], February 4, 2021
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Daruma dolls deposited at Katsuōji Temple (勝尾寺) in Minō, Osaka Prefecture, donated back after the owners’ wishes were fulfilled
Photo by ボブ [Bobu], February 4, 2021
A printed ofuda talisman depicting Eleven-faced Kannon Bodhisattva (十一面観音菩薩) surrounded by divine guardians of the four cardinal directions at Katsuōji Temple (勝尾寺) in Minō, Osaka Prefecture, twenty-third temple in the Thirty-three Temple Western Pilgrimage Circuit
The text along the top can roughly be translated, “That in Japan Kannon’s day of affinity takes place on the 18th of every month is due to the bodhisattva’s manifestation at this very temple, as detailed in the temple’s origin tale”
A view of the sacred grounds of Katsuōji Temple (勝尾寺) in Minō, Osaka Prefecture, founded in 727 according to temple lore, with the temple gate dating to 1603 on the right and Bentendō Hall (弁天堂) enshrining the goddess Benzaiten (弁才天) on the left
Photo by さんろく [Sanroku], November 18, 2016
The sacred grounds of Katsuōji Temple (勝尾寺) in Minō, Osaka Prefecture, with the Bentendō Hall (弁天堂) enshrining the goddess Benzaiten (弁才天) front & center and the temple’s pagoda and other buildings in the hills behind
Image from the temple’s official website
The pilgrims’ hymn for Katsuōji Temple (勝尾寺) in Minō, Osaka Prefecture (here given the alternate pronunciation of “Kachiodera Temple”) from a hymnal for the thirty-three temples of the western pilgrimage circuit dedicated to Kannon Bodhisattva (観音菩薩)
My own rough, tentative translation follows:
Number Twenty-Three: Ōchōzan Kachiodera Temple (Shingon School) in Mishima District, Settsu Province
Aomatani, Minō City, Osaka Prefecture
A hymn for Eleven-Faced Thousand-Armed Kannon:
However weighty Your many sins, count on the Unbeaten methods Of this temple’s buddha to Most surely lighten your load
Image from “Saigoku Sanjūsansho Goeika” (西国三十三所 御詠歌) edited by Tomita Haruyuki (冨田晴行), published by Ryūshōdō (隆昌堂) in Osaka, 1995 reprint of the 1973 edition, unpaginated accordion book