Episode 9: Bosatsu (Bosatsu) born from soil

　There is an interesting and good news to Seishibosatsu, which is held at all Seishido in Shimoseya.
　About 240 years ago, in the first year of the Enkyo era, a person named Nakamaru Genta was very religious in the village of Fukami, Yamato-shi (Fukami). I lived.
　One night, Genta saw a mysterious dream.
"Left Genta, I'm in the soil, but I want to go out to the world and give the power of Buddha, please go out on the ground."
When I called this, the Buddha disappeared. Genta left the house with his hoe on his shoulders, and left the house with his hoe on his shoulder, and looked at the ruins of Moto Kashima Shrine where the dream was announced, and found the soil. A Buddha statue came out.
"I tell you, it's a wasteful thing." Left Genta carefully washed and cleaned the Buddha statue and celebrated it at the village shrine (hokora). This is Seshi Bodhisattva.
　After a while, Genta left listened to the Buddha's voice in the dream.
"I want to give more people the power to make everyone feel at ease, and let them go around the countries with me."
That's what it was.
　Left Genta put the shrine's Seshi Bodhisattva in a kitchen, traveled around Seoi, and spread the teachings of Buddha to the people.
　After that, Seshi Bodhisattva was enshrined in all hospital visits Amida-do, and has gathered the religion of many people and the religions of Sazuke. The 23rd of January and August are fairs, but the festival in August are very busy every year, and the watermelon of the stall (roten) is on the approach to the shrine due to the congestion of people visiting (mai). It seems that there was often falls down.
　At the beginning of the Showa era, when the watermelon was still rare, the watermelon that was no longer sold was distributed to the worshipers, and it was pleased that it was also the benefit of the shrine. Until around 1945, there was a Shimoseya branch school, but it is said that this was also due to the fact that there was no single injured person in the children. .

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