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Pilgrims at Kegonji Temple (華厳寺) in Ibigawa, Gifu Prefecture

Image from “西国三十三カ所巡礼 (とんぼの本)” [Saigoku Sanjūsan ka Sho Junrei (Tonbo no Hon)] by 井上隆雄 [Inoue Takao] & 田中智彦 [Tanaka Tomohiko], published by 新潮社 [Shinchōsha], 1988, page 117

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20230331 Tarumi railway 4 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: 参道に神社があったのでお参り。八王子神社だそうです。 @Tanigumisan Kegonji temple, Ibigawa town, Ibi district, Gifu pref. （岐阜県揖斐郡揖斐川町 谷汲山華厳寺）

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The pilgrims’ hymns for Kegonji Temple (華厳寺) in Ibigawa, Gifu Prefecture, 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 Thirty-Three: Mount Tanigumi Kegonji Temple (Tendai School) in Ibi District, Mino Province Tokuzumi, Tanigumi Village, Ibi County, Gifu Prefecture Hymns in reverent gratitude for grace and thankfulness for blessings to Eleven-Faced Kannon: Vows of countless years Have been pledged and sworn right here At Tanigumi, The temple where pure waters Trickle and flow from the moss As long as this sign Of the buddha who lights up The world remains here, Its guiding lamp shall never Waver nor be extinguished All along the way Relying on these pilgrims' cloaks Like parental care, We now offer them up here At Mino Tanigumi

Images 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

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A printed ofuda talisman depicting Eleven-Faced Kannon Bodhisattva (十一面観音菩薩) at Kegonji Temple (華厳寺) in Ibigawa, Gifu Prefecture, thirty-third and final temple in the Thirty-three Temple Western Pilgrimage Circuit