2019-07-16

Benkei Musashibo legends

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Benkei ベンケイ / 弁慶と伝説 Legends about Musashibo Benkei

. Musashiboo Benkei 武蔵坊弁慶 (? - 1189) .
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Benkei gooshi, Benkeigooshi, Benkei-Gōshi 弁慶格子
Benkei-Goshi, Benkei grid pattern, Benkei lattice pattern

kooshi 格子 means lattice, grid, Gitter
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Beautiful Women Dressed in Kimono with Benkei-style Pattern:
Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani (Shimazoroi Onna Benkei Ichinotani Futaba Gunki)
縞揃女弁慶 [一谷嫩軍記]
Painted by 歌川国芳 Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1844 (Tempō 15)
This is one of the pictures of series Mitate Bijin-ga (Ukiyo-e that portray beautiful women) comprised of ten pictures painted by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, an expert in the pictures of warriors. All the women depicted in this work are dressed in kimono with Benkei-style pattern (Benkei-gōshi) as the title says.
The series Shimazoroi Onna Benkei (Beautiful Women Dressed in Benkei-checked Kimonos) is a series of pictures of beautiful women dressed in "shima-moyo (checkered)" kimono that was very popular in the Edo period.
Benkei-jima (also called Benkei-goshi, or Benkei-check)" in this picture is one of the checked patterns with the same widths vertically and horizontally, which are woven with threads in two different colors. It was named after the stage costume of Benkei dressed in a mountain priest costume in the kabuki "Kanjinchō."
This series is made up of nishiki-e (colored woodblock prints) with the theme of "Benkei", and includes mitate-e (analogues) that remind us of the scenes about the stories of Benkei. A notice-board that a women holds in her hand and the waka (traditional Japanese poem), "I do not break a flower, but my nails cut quickly resemble a board to announce the order from the government" are assumed to be compared to the scene of "Kumagai Jinya", act 3 of "Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani (Ichinotani futaba gunki)."
source : Metropolitan Museum Tokyo

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Kabuki  歌舞伎 
Benkeigoshi 弁慶格子 a black-and-white checkered pattern introduced by Kōshirō V.


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. Oniwakamaru driving out a Koi fish monster - 鬼若丸の鯉退治 .
Musashibo Benkei was called Oniwakamaru - "demon child, ogre child" in his youth.

Actor 市川団十郎 Ichikawa Danjûrô IX as Musashibô Benkei
応需国周画 Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900)

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......................................................................................... Ibaraki 茨城県
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土浦市 Tsuchiura city

. Throwing the temple bell into the lake - kane 鐘 .




......................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
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長岡市 Nagaoka city

. Benkei no ashiato ベンケイの足あと footprints of Benkei .
and the river 信濃川 Shinanogawa

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2 comments:

Gabi Greve said...

Legend from Shiga 滋賀県 大津市 Otsu city
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三井寺 - 弁慶の引摺り鐘 the Benkei temple bell at Miidera
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The temple bell, Benkei no hikitsuirgane, which was manufactured during the Nara period, is said to have been donated to the Mii-dera temple as an expression of gratitude to Fujiwara no Hidesato for the Extermination of the Centipede (“Mukade Taiji”, a legendary episode) living on mount Mikamiyama.
The bell is also said to have been brought back from Ryu-gu, the underwater Palace of the Dragon King.
In the tenth century, during the succession disputes which broke out between Tendai monks, Benkei (a warrior monk, popular subject of Japanese folklore) took the bell away and dragged it up to the summit of mount Hiei. There, he tried to strike it and got mad when he heard it ringing “eeno eeno”, which means “I want to go back” in the Kansai dialect.
Benkei then threw the bell down to the bottom of the valley.
The scars and cracks which can be seen on the bell are said to be traces of this episode.
- source : shiga-miidera.or.jp ... -
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more in my blog
https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2021/04/chinsho-sunken-bell-legends.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Gakuenji 鰐淵寺 Gakuen-Ji, Izumo
浮浪山 Furozan 一乗院 Ichijo-In 鰐淵寺 Gakuenji
Furo no Taki 浮浪の滝 Furo Waterfall
Benkei practised here as a young monk.
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2022/03/gakuenji-shinbutsu-izumo.html
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