Where I was supposed to be yesterday, approaching now I think

[Paul Werbos]

https://youtu.be/VcJ0v4lc-nA 

Watch "Yamagata: Communing with the Living and the Dead - Journeys in Japan" on YouTube

[Paul Werbos]

When I posted our plans to go near Yamagata, where many Japanese commune with the dead, Chris recomended ... see his message below.

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Thanks, Chris. Yesterday we came to Shikoku, and my wife Ludmilla says we will go there. Koba Daishi is Kukai

the founder of Shingon Buddhism, which I now understand  a bit better than before.

I do hope we can do maximum justice to this unique opportunity.  It reminds me that we are connected in time as well as space. Kukai is a person worth knowing better. 

He and Kato of Kumamoto both had important connections to Hideyoshi, who for Japan was analogous to what the Emperor Qin was to China.  Years ago a Win family member showed us around Xian, and we know them better. So many lessons from the real history!

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 7:48 PM Chris King <dhus...@gmail.com> wrote:

Here a really iconic spirits of the dead point at the extreme tip of Shikoku

The Cape itself, Muroto-misaki, is the said to be the 'wildest' spot in Japan, the wild cape where the spirits of the dead depart for the land of the dead in a manner similar to the Maori departure point at Cape Reinga at the northern tip of Aotearoa. It is a place of natural beauty with gnarled trees and rock pools intermingling with the thrashing waves and weird rock formations pummeled by the sea. In addition to the departed there is a fertility rock where people have piled up cairns of pebbles, and the cave were Daishi is said to have gained enlightenment as well as a temple Hotsumisaki-ji perched high on the cliffs above beside the Cape lighthouse. So, all in all, this wild spit represents the whole gamut of life's experiences from death, through fertility to enlightenment, rolled into one natural experience, combining the wildernesses of Cape Reinga and Punakaike of Aotearoa.

http://chrisxtjapan.blogspot.com/2012/03/muroto-and-spirits-of-dead.html 

CK

On 11/03/2023, at 12:32 PM, Paul Werbos <paul....@gmail.com> wrote:

https://youtu.be/VcJ0v4lc-nA 

Watch "Yamagata: Communing with the Living and the Dead - Journeys in Japan" on YouTube

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[Paul Werbos]

Thanks again, Chris!

I think you are recommending a place in Kochi.

I have learned a lot so far

Even https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%ABkai 

(Or search on Kukai, pick this one) and its links 

 tell us amazing things. Just as most Judeo-Christians cite Jesus, but some cite Moses, Kukai cites an earlier prophet/Buddha!

https://kochi-yabi.jp might include the place you recommend and we might get there.

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 7:00 AM Chris King <dhus...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Paul and Ludmilla,

There is a neat pilgrimage route right around Shikoku. We stopped at heaps of Temples and met lots of them right out to the southern tip of the Island!

Details at: http://chrisxtjapan.blogspot.com/ 

Chris

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