To answer this question is no easy task so I would like to present to you all of the information I have regarding this question and let you judge for yourself. Hattori Hanzo, Momochi Tanba and Fujibayashi Nagato are the three most well-known shinobi commanders of the mountainous land of Iga. As many already know, […]
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Akihasan (Akiha Mountain) is said to have first been opened up and explored by the Buddhist monk Gyoki in the second year of the Yōrō era (718 CE), during the reign of empress Genshō-tennō (元正天皇). The site of the first temple was called Daitozan Reiun-In (大登山霊雲院) and the main Kannon statue of the temple was
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吾れ々々お互が、死と云うものを考えた時、どんな感じがするか、何だか飽気無い、寂しい感じがする。それは死後の考え方によるものである。 Individually, when each one of us thinks about death, how do we feel? Somehow tireless and lonely. It is a post-mortem concept. 死という永遠の旅から帰って来た人の物語りを聞いた実例も無いから、当然淋しさを感ぜられるのが人間の心情である。 Because there is no actual example of hearing the story of a person who has returned from the eternal journey of death, the natural human emotion to this is loneliness. 末開人霊魂観を始め、素朴なものには、この死という考えが色々と判断せられ、墓場から人魂が飛んだり、干蘭盆の節に情霊が還って来たりする考え方は、この類である。
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