Virtual Sayama 33 Kannon Pilgrimag #3 Rokusai-do Temple

 

     It is unknown when Rokusai-do Temple was founded.  Rokusai literally means 6 precepts, but here it means the 6 days of a month, when you are supposed to follow 5 precepts of Buddhism: to refrain from killing living beings, stealing, having sexual intercourses, lying, and being intoxicated.  Usually, the 6 days were the 8th, 14th, 15th, 23rd, 29th, and 30th days of a month.  According to the Sayama 33 Kannon Pilgrimage Travelogue, published in 1805, the temple used to enshrine 6 Avalokiteshvara statues, each of which represented the 6 days.  Basically, they performed certain religious events on those 6 days.  In some places,  markets were held on those 6 days.  Rokusai-ichi, namely a 6 precepts market, is still held in Kariya, Onjuku, Shigi, Ohara, Ushiku, Mobara, Otaki, and Choja in Chiba Prefecture.

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