梅花咲く浦江聖天 Urae Shoten Temple in the season of the Ume flower blooming

 梅花咲く浦江聖天

 

Front guard frame of temple entrance

正式な名称は如意山了徳院。大阪府大阪市福島区鷺洲２丁目１４−１に所在しています。

JR福島駅から徒歩5分程度です。

Wikipediaによれば、（以下引用します）

～洪水のために記録が失われ、創建年は不明。

元文元年（1736年）3月、高野山善寿院の宥意上人が入寺して再建を企て、元文4年（1739年）10月に竣功。

その後また衰えていたのを天保5年（1834年）僧某が堂宇を再建する。

Principal image of Temple

古来伏見宮の祈願所で、本堂に十一面観世音菩薩（大聖歓喜天）を安置する。この大聖歓喜天は浦江がまだ海岸だった折、漁師の網にかかって海中から出現したと伝えられる。

子宝、縁結びを願う信仰に支えられ、浦江聖天、福島聖天と呼ばれ親しまれた。当地はいくつかの水路が流れ込み、境内の水辺には杜若が群生し、花の時期には参拝客で溢れた。

松尾芭蕉も門弟と訪れ、句を残している。

「杜若語るも旅のひとつ哉」

Temple Gate

1945年（昭和20年）6月1日の第2回大阪大空襲によって山門と白髭稲荷大明神を除いて焼失したが、戦後に復興した。～とあります。

Ukiyo-e "One Hundred Views of Naniwa"

江戸時代末期の浮世絵　浪花百景「浦江の聖天」（貞伸画）の題材にもなっており当時とても人気があり賑わっていたようです。

所謂　廃仏毀釈にあわず、神仏習合した日本古来の姿で残されています。

寺務所でお話しを伺ったところ、現状は様々な困難があるようです。

熱心な信者の皆さんが常に参拝しているようでした。きちんと燈明も絶えず、掃除も行き届いて清浄な空間でした。

Statue of Vaisravana

ご本尊の他多くの神様、仏様を祀っておられて、信仰心と興味関心のある私にはとても楽しい場所でした。

了徳院及び関係者の皆様に感謝申し上げます。

 

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掲載記事の更新日2022年02月21日

 

Urae Shoten Temple in the season of the Ume flower blooming

 

Main Temple

The official name is Nyoizan Ryokuin. It is located at Sagisu 2-14-1, Fukushima-Ku, Osaka-City, Osaka-Prefecture.

It is about a 5-minute walk from JR

Fukushima Station.

It is from Wikipedia; Records are lost due to the old-time flood, and the year of construction is unknown.

In March of the 1st year of Genbun era (1736), Yui Shonin as a Buddhist priest of Zenju-in had come and attempted to rebuild it, and it was completed in October of the 4th year of the Genbun era (1739).

After that, when it was declining again,a Buddhist priest rebuilt this temple in 1834.

Here is the prayer place of Fushimi-no-miya from ancient times, the principal image of worship at the temple is Eleven-faced Kannon Bosatsu (Great Holy Kankiten) in the main hall.

They have been said that this Great Holy Kankiten emerged from the sea on a fisherman's net when Urae area was still on the coast in ancient time.

The Belief for wishing a childbirth and marriage, they have said as "Urae Shoten" or "Fukushima Shoten".

Several waterways flowed into the area, and the waterside of the temple precincts was crowded with rabbitear iris, and during the flowering season, it was full of worshipers.

Slab with a haiku cut on it of Matsuo Basho

Matsuo Basho (Famous Haiku poet: 1644 - 1694) also has visited with his apprentice and left a haiku.

"kakitsubata / kataru mo tabi no / hitotsu kana" (1688 summer)

It was destroyed by fire in the second Osaka air raid on June 1, 1945, except for Temple Gate and Shirahige Inari Shrine, but it was reconstructed after the war.

It has not been damaged by the so-called Haibutsu Kishaku (slogan of anti-Buddhist movement) in early Meiji Era (1868 - 1877), and has been preserved in the traditional Japanese religious form of Shinbutsu-shugo (Syncretization of Shinto with Buddhism).

Ukiyo-e "One Hundred Views of Naniwa"

From the Ukiyo-e "One Hundred Views of Naniwa" at the end of the Edo era, it was very crowded at that time with gathering faith.

When I talked to a chief temple priest, it seems that there are various difficulties in nowadays.

Bell-tower of temple

It seemed that enthusiastic believers were always come to praying. It was a place for prayer with the votive light and cleanliness.

Pond of Saraswati

It was a very interrested place for me as have a Japanese Traditional religious belief and interest, where enshrines many Buddhas and Shinto gods in addition to the principal image.

I thank you for all people of this temple.

 

 

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