Kankuro Jizo

There is a Jizo called Kankuro Jizo at a temple called Jishoin Temple in Okubo, Konan-ku. It is an old Jizo that was called 1660 (1660).
In the past, it seems that what was in Musashi Country and Sagami Country in Rokutsugawa, Minami-ku, was moved here. Even now, in the original place where Kankuro Jizo was, there is a substitute stone Jizo and a monument that wrote the story.

Once upon a time, a Kabuki actor named Kankuro was rushing ahead in the country.
Many travelers and villagers come and go there during the day, but at night it was a lonely place
The next morning, the villagers saw was the change of Kankuro. And his whole body was removed and breathed, as if he had been put on the gosss. The villagers were frustrated and made a stone Jizo-san.
Soon after a bad illness occurred in the nearby village and many people died.
Once upon a time they were unable to cure these diseases. But there was no choice but to be in God and Buddha. It was also thought that the cause of these bad diseases was the evil spirits of the murdered people.

So the villagers offered various things to Kankuro Jizo and tried to calm down.
How about that? Mysteriously, the bad illness subsides, and the villagers were very pleased to be thanks to Kankuro Jizo.
In addition, the rumor spread quickly, and came to be visited as well as nearby villages, but also as Jizo who protects peddlers and travelers.
On the 28th, when Kankuro was said to have died, many people gathered and opened stores and even did it. There are still many people who visit, and the offering flowers do not disappear.

This is a story recorded in "Hometown Konan's Old Story".
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