. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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chinoike, chi no ike 血の池 と伝説 Legends about "blood ponds"
Chinoike jigoku 血の池地獄 "the blood pond of hell" is a famous hot spring in Oita, Beppu.
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. chinoike jigoku 血の池地獄 the Buddhist "Blood Pond Hell" .
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- - - - - There are many places with this name, see below.
The iron content of a crater lake is often high and leads to a red color.
Gunma - The crater lake of Mount Akagisan 赤城山にある火口湖
Toyma - The crater lake of Mount Tateyama 立山火山
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- - - - - Chinoike also relates to legends about women dying during birth.
恐山：血の池地獄 堕獄の女性を救う ”如意輪観音”Nyoirin Kannon protects the women
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. Aomori, 恐山 Osorezan .
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知多郡 Chita district 美浜町 Mihama town
Chinoike Koen 血の池公園 Chinoike Park
愛知県長久手市 Shiroyashiki, Nagakute, Aichi
In the compound of temple 大御堂寺 Omido-Ji, 野間大坊 Noma Daibo
. Noma Daibo 野間大坊 and Temple Omido-Ji 大御堂寺 .
Minamoto no Yoshitomo, the father of Yoritomo and Yoshitsune, was killed here and his head washed in the pond.
This legendary pond is said to turn red before unlucky events.
......................................................................................... Chiba 千葉県
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我孫子市 Abiko city
Hossho Daizenni no rei 法性大禅尼の霊 the spirit of the nun Hossho Daizen-Ni
Around 1395, the spirit of the nun Daizen-Ni, the daughter of Hojo Tokiyori (1227 - 1263), who had built the temple 法性寺 Hojo-Ji, had come to the temple.
She told the priest:
"In a former life I was a woman who had gone crazy, my hair stood on end and my voice was hoarse. I lost blood from my womb and cried in pain."
To appease her soul, the priest spent a period of prayers, and prayed to 地蔵菩薩 Jizo Bosatsu. An old man appeared and told him to go to a clear lake in the Eastern direction. There it begun raining flowers from the sky and the Sutra 血盆経 Ketsubon Kyo appeared.
He begun to read it aloud and the soul of the nun was appeased.
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The Blood Bowl Sutra (Chinese: 血盆經, Ketsubon Kyō)
is an apocryphal Mahayana sutra of Chinese origin. The earliest version of this text was likely composed around the end of the 12th century or the beginning of the 13th.
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The Blood Bowl Sutra describes how Maudgalyāyana, disciple of the Buddha famous for his supernatural or magical powers, descended to hell to save his mother. He finds her in the company of women who are tormented by the hell wardens and are forced to drink their own menstrual blood. They are punished like this because the blood produced by their bodies pollutes the ground and offends the earth gods, or ends up in rivers from which the water to make tea for holy men is drawn.
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The belief that women descend to the underworld shortly after childbirth has been present in Japanese folklore for quite some time. Story 9 of Volume 3 in the Nihon Ryōiki tells of how a woman died in labor and went to hell.
Despite the Ōjōyōshū being one of the most important texts to describe hell, it bears no mention of the Blood Pool Hell. It is possible that the nature of hell as presented in the Blood Bowl Sutra was not introduced to Japanese religious thought until the Muromachi period. At Yama-dera temple, there is a pool called the "Blood Pond." It is said that at one time, the Blood Bowl Sutra was used for dedicatory services to women who had died in childbirth. A similar ceremony was likely held at Gangō-ji. Until relatively recently, ceremonies surrounding the Blood Bowl Sutra were also held at Shōsen-ji temple. Believers would enclose a copy of the Blood Bowl Sutra in women's coffins in order to save them from being condemned to the Blood Pond Hell. A copy of the sutra discovered at Saidai-ji appears to have been used in a similar fashion.
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. Legends about Jizo Bosatsu - 地蔵菩薩 .
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Chiba 山武郡 Sanbu district 芝山町 Shibayama
The day 75 after giving birth marks the end of the Taboo period.
On this day the woman is allowed to go out for the first time, usually to the local Shinto Shrine.
If a woman dies before this day, she will go to the blood pond of hell.
On the banks of the pond grow nira 韮 garlic chives, but if a woman tries to grab some, they will break.
......................................................................................... Gifu 岐阜県
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揖斐郡 Ibi district 揖斐川町 Ibigawa town
If a woman during birth thinks about 庚申さん the Koshin deity, the birth will be easy.
If a woman dies during birth, she will fall into the blood pond of hell, but Koshin will come to pull her out at her hair.
. kooshin 庚申伝説 Legends about the Koshin Cult .
......................................................................................... Hyogo 兵庫県
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神戸市 Kobe city
. Fudo no taki 不動の瀧 Fudo Myo-o Waterfall .
and Maya mode 摩耶詣 visiting the Maya temple
......................................................................................... Ibaraki 茨城県
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久慈郡 Kuji district 大子町 Daigo town
The Kami from the upper and lower Shrine of 八溝山 Mount Yamizo had a fight.
The Kami from 上野宮 Kamino Miya lost and disappeared behind 新田の滝 the Shinden Waterfall.
Now there is a Chinoike blood pond.
......................................................................................... Kagawa 香川県
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三豊郡 Mitoyo district 高瀬町 Takase town
Chinoike 血の池
In the town of Takase there is a rock with the footprint of akago 赤子 a baby.
Once upon a time, from the top of mount 鬼がうすの山 / 鬼ヶ臼山 Onigausuyama a horse and a baby came flying down.The horse was quite exhausted, fell down near the small shrine, hit its head on the rock and died. But the baby stood on top of the rock, leaving its footprints to our day.
From the rock, in the form of a horse head, water like tears came floating down. The water from this well is said to cure zutsuu 頭痛 headaches.
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Yashima 血の池（瑠璃宝の池 Ruriho no Ike）
Kobo Daishi 弘法大師 stayed at 屋島寺 Yashima temple and wrote the Sutras
遍照金剛、三密行所、当都率天、内院管門. He then took hooju 宝珠 a wish-fulfilling jewel and threw it all into the pond.
There is also a tale that the ryuujin 竜神 Dragon King came to steal the jewel.
During the 源平合戦 Genpei wars around 1180, the Samurai who had fought at 檀ノ浦 Dannoura came here to wash their bloody swords, hence the name Chinoike.
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......................................................................................... Nagano 長野県
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佐久市 Saku city
. Chinoike at Mount Senningatake 仙人ヶ嶽 .
......................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
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佐渡郡 Sado district 畑野町 Hatano town
rinshi taiken 臨死体験 near-death experience
Once a man almost died, he went to Paradise and saw the Chinoiki 血の池 Blood Pond and
hari no yama 針の山 the mountain of needles.
Then he came back to life.
hari no yama 針の山 the mountain of needles
......................................................................................... Oita 大分県
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別府 Beppu, a well-known hot spring area
. Chinoike-jigoku 血の池地獄, the "Blood Pond Hell" .
People in Japan's past named the Onsen Chinoike-jigoku 血の池地獄, the "Blood Pond Hell", based on an image of hell found in Buddhism.
- reference source : Jigoku-meguri (Hell Tour) in Beppu -
......................................................................................... Okayama 岡山県
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新見市 Niimi city 哲西町 Tessei town
If a pregnant woman dies they have to braid her hair. When she comes to the 血の池 blood pond, she will float up to her hair.
......................................................................................... Osaka 大阪府
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吹田市 Sugita city
. Legends about the daija 大蛇 huge serpent .
There once was a place where villagers made the offering of a living young woman to the Ujigami every year.
Once the Shinto priest of the Shrine became suspicious, found a small shirohebi 白蛇 white serpent and threw it out of the compound.
Soon the clear pond nearby became all red and a Chinoike. On its surface the bones of a huge serpent became visible.
Since then, they stopped to make offerings of human beings.
. ujigami 氏神 clan KAMI deities .
......................................................................................... Shiga 滋賀県
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高島市 Takashima city
If a woman dies during childbirth, the family has to get a special 流れ札 amulet from the temple 長善寺 Chozen-Ji.
This "chain amulet" has 100 pieces. Passers-by have to pour water over one, until the letters are invisible. If this has not happened after 1000 people have passed, the woman will not be able to get out of the Chinoike Blood Pond.
長善寺Temple Chozen-Ji
581 Makinocho Koaraji, Takashima, Shiga
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東伯郡 Tohaku district 下北條村 Shimo-Hokuei village
The body of a woman who died during childbirth is left at the riverside for 100 days. Passers-by throw water on her body so she can swim on the Chinoike and eventually go to heaven.
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橋本市 Hashimoto city
If a woman dies during childbirth, she has to go to the Chinoike Hell Pond.
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. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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