Pillars of the Wu family

The three counties of Uchi, Yoshino, and Uda in the southern part of Yamato Kingdom are called the three counties of the South. They have always been places where the power of the Kofukuji sect is relatively weak. A small-scale township party formed by the Mu family. In Uda County, the Sawa family, the Akiyama family, and the Yoshino family, known as the Uda three generals or the Uta three people in Wazhou, were separated.

The Akiyama family is the head of the Kobe Shrine, the head of the Kobe Shrine in Kobe Township, Uda County, Uda County, Ise Shrine. At the end of the Cang Period, Kasuga Wakamiya's Lord Yuchen's "Ji Ri Ji" recorded "Ten Yabusame Horse Riders and Yoshino Two Riders", which also belonged to the power of Kofuku Temple.

However, the three generals of Uda did not willingly obey Kofukuji’s dispatch. They quietly established a close relationship with the Ise Kitabata family. The powerful officials of the clan are probably just like the people of other countries who are accompanied by some daimyos, trying to please both sides.

Later, they belonged to the Southern Dynasty and were very active. In the "Taiping Ji" Shennan War, it was recorded that Hetian, Nan, Zhenmu, Ze, and Akiyama belonged to Nanmu. At the same time, Yoshino's records also appeared. It can be seen that there is a group of samurai groups in Yamato County who do not obey the shogunate and do not respect the order of Kofuku Temple. These three families later fell into decline with the failure of the Yamato Yongxiang Rebellion. They are not very close to the officials of Kofuku Temple. Another group of countrymen.

"This spring, His Highness Tsutsui, the Lord of the Kingdom, went out to fight against the three generals of Yu Tuo. On the way, the acne recurred and returned to Fuchu, so..."

"Okay! Don't talk about it!" Yamaoka Zenjiro impatiently interrupted the old man's long speech, turned his horse's head and returned to the team, and said with a sneer: "The Tsutsui family call themselves the lord? How funny!"

Shimazauchi and Takigawa Keijiro rode together, raised his head and said, "His Majesty Tsutsui is the lord of the country! It was His Highness Toichi who gave up the position of Lord Tsutsui to His Highness Tsutsui! Don't talk nonsense if you don't know! The people of the country heard that your head was chopped off."

After all, Keijiro Takigawa urged his mount to laugh and shouted, "I can't protect my head, I can't protect my head!"

Yamaoka Zenjiro stared dumbfounded at the two people's mounts that quickly sank into the team like rabbits, gritted his teeth and said: "These little bastards! It's really disgusting! They don't know how to respect seniors at all! It's disgusting!"

Tianxia County is the core area of ​​the Tsutsui family, and further east is Timaka County, which is the core area of ​​Xingfu Temple. Because Xingfu Temple is also called Nandu, the seven townships in the county are also called Nandu Qixiang. Nanmen Township in the south of the temple, Beiyumen Township in the north, Dongyumen Township in the east, Xiyumen Township in the west, Xuekou Township and Bukaiyumen Township in the west, and Xinyaoshisi Township in the southeast.

Kofuku Temple also controls the Kasuga Shrine. The priests of the shrine are all monks. Speaking of which, the Kasuga Four Gods enshrined in the Kasuga Taisha are also the patron saints of the Fujiwara family. Kasuga Taisha is actually the home of the Fujiwara family. It is also the Bodhi Temple established by Kamazu Fujiwara, so it is reasonable to say that the two are integrated into one and they are not separated from each other.

It is also a tradition in medieval Japan that monks from temples serve as priests of shrines, that is, the legendary unity of gods and Buddhas. Japanese gods are very interesting. Gods and humans are in the same position. Seek the enlightenment of the Buddha to gain liberation.

In the early days of the Nara Era, Echizen Kokubi Dashen entrusted the establishment of the Jinguji Temple, and then Zen Master Mangan also set up the Jinguji Temple at Kashima Shrine, Kamo Shrine, Ise Jingu Shrine and other shrines inside and outside the country. The Hachiman Daimyojin of the Hachiman Shrine, the god of the samurai, was enlightened by the Buddha as the Hachiman Bodhisattva, so it is not surprising to see a group of big bald heads in the shrine. The shrine built near the temple has almost become an affiliated institution of the temple.

The saying that Yamato State owns the Kingdom of God is not only because it used to be the seat of Kyoto for two generations, but also because there are a large number of shrines in it. Only in the county where Kofukuji belongs, there are large shrines recorded in the "Enki Shikigami Account" There are nine shrines and 28 small shrines. Among the largest 22 shrines, Yamato Kingdom occupies seven seats, which are one in the upper seven shrines, five in the middle seven shrines, and one in the lower eight shrines. In terms of influence, it is comparable to several small shrines in Yuanguo. Ichinomiya is too strong to break the head.

I visited Heijo-kyo in Nara for two days, saw the scenery of Heijo-kyo in the southern capital, and lived in the monzen town of Kofuku-ji Temple for a few days, and visited this ancient temple to worship Sakyamuni Buddha. Speaking of which, this ancient Buddha is still Kamazu Fujiwara It is said that it is very effective and has always been the treasure of Xingfu Temple.

In order to find the powerful monk as soon as possible, the samurai of Kira's family put on casual clothes and entered Kofukuji Temple. Shan Gang Zenjiro directly asked the young monk who was guiding him: "Where is Master Yinrong of Hozoin?" Where is the courtyard, but pointed to the east with uncertainty and said: "It may be there."

"What does this mean? Hokurain doesn't even know you can be called a monk from Kofukuji Temple?" Not to mention that Zenjiro Yamaoka felt that his words were unreliable, even Kira Wansongmaru shook his head. A group of twenty or so people entered and found out The scale of Kofuku-ji Temple is ridiculously large, and there are too many monks who cannot be named. Compared with names such as Yijo-in and Mahayana-in, Hokura-in is really not well-known.

He stopped several monks one after another and said that he did not know Baozangyuan. Later, he recommended that they go to the Zhongjin Hall, the Great Lecture Hall, the Five-storied Pagoda, the Dongjin Hall, the Nanyuan Hall, the Xijin Hall, the Beiyuan Hall, and the Three-story Pagoda. If you want to use Remember to go to the cafeteria during the vegetarian meal. If you get lost, just remember to ask the passing monks for advice.

Seeing that such a search was not a problem, the samurai of Kira's family immediately scattered in several ways to search for it. The road to find Hozo-in Temple was very tortuous. Finally, they met a monk near the south gate and asked him to find out that there was indeed a Hozo-in temple nearby. The full name seems to be different, it is called Hokurain in Kofukuji Pagoda, and finally found Hokurain in a less arrogant place.

The full name of Baozhangyuan Yinrong is Baozhangyuan Jue Zen Fang Yinrong, the owner of Baozhangyuan in the pagoda of Dahe Guoxingfu Temple, because they don’t know the difference between the full name and the pagoda, they let them run for a long time for nothing, and almost broke their legs. .

Born in the first year of Dayong (1521 in the Western calendar), Yin Rong of Hosakuin was the second son of Yinrong of Hosakuin... Yes!You read that right!His name is exactly the same as his father's, and he followed the ancient name inheritance method in the Middle Ages. Song Rongwan, the childhood name of Hozoin Yinrong, is generally called Juechanfang Yinrong in the temple, and only known as Baozoin Yinrong to the outside world. This is the legendary cheater, which is called differently inside and outside the temple.

After becoming an adult, he inherited his father's name and became the leader of the monk group of Baosaoyuan. He is considered to be the number one figure among the many monk groups of Xingfu Temple. It's a pity that these monks don't run around in the temple at ordinary times. The activities in the temple are ordinary monks. It really deserves it if you break your leg.

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