Kanjin

The money people paid respectively was very small, as in the idiomatic 4-letter phrase Isshi-Hansen which meant a piece of paper and a half sen (one hundredth of yen).

The most famous Kanjin monks included Gyōki (668 - 749) of the Nara period, Kūya (903 - 972) and Engyō (?

I hereby request that all believers in Buddhism provide support for our civil engineering project aimed at repairing the Buddhist statue.

This temple had been a sacred place with many buildings decorated with gold, conforming to the desire of Emperor Shomu and the works of Gyōki.

The present Emperor of Japan ordered the reconstruction of Tōdai-ji and Daibutsu with all strength of our capital and country-side.

Nonetheless, Oguni kabuki women joined to obtain money in exchange for sexual favors.

At that time, groups of sumo wrestlers were in various parts of Japan, including Akita, Nanbu, Tsugaru, Sendai, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Wakayama, Takamatsu, Inba, Nagasaki, Kumamoto and Kagoshima.

The term Kanjin-Sumo remained because sumo tournaments were under the control of the Jisha-bugyō, which was a "commissioner" or an "overseer" of the Tokugawa shogunate.

In 1925, the Japan Sumo Association was established, though the practice of Kanjin-moto remains, and expresses private local organizations which hold tournaments.

The noh of Monk Yoshimori was well known for the reconstruction of Kurama temple; he produced a Kanjin-Noh with On-ami and Kanze-morimasa in 1464 in Kyoto.

Later, Kanjin-Noh was held for the benefit of Noh players, especially in the Edo era, while the term Kanjin remained.

The center of Tiantai at Zenkō-ji in Nagano Prefecture is called Daikanjin or "great kanjin".

[7][8] In the Itsuki Lullaby from Kumamoto Prefecture, kanjin means a beggar; however, this is not standard usage.