Hōgyū Jizō

In January 1686, a blacksmith called Hichizaemon, a heavy drinker, threw a bamboo blower at his son.

Despite repeated apologies, Genzaemon immediately killed Hichizaemon with a sword, that being legal at the time by kiri sute gomen.

[1] Out of grief, the son entered the Buddhist priesthood for the repose of his father, and offered a prayer with a vow that he would make 100 stone statues.

[2][3] features such as engraved sentences Road Direction Post pointing to Kumamoto The following are douka, or didactic poems, of Hōgyū: Those who are rich and those who are not, differ in the present world, but they are the same after death.

(75th statue)A cow without a bridle (Hōgyū) which carries Sattva on its back, leads people to a country of Buddha.