箱根六道地蔵

Abstract

中世の地蔵信仰によって正安二年(1300)に七メートル余の輝石安山岩(二子石)に掘られた高さ3.2メートルの磨崖仏(鎌倉期では関東最大)で､六道の辻と見なされた精進が池周辺の石仏群の一つであるため､一体であるが､六道地蔵と呼ばれる｡地蔵の上の小屋掛けがなく､明治11年(1878)以降の撮影｡

This is 3.2m magaibotoke (the largest in Kanto region during the Kamakura Period) carved into over seven meter high pyrozene andesite rock for jizo worship during Middle Ages. Although there is only one jizo here, this is called Rokudo (Six Way) Jizo because this is one of the group of stone buddhas around Shojingaike Pond which was regarded as the crossroad of Rokudo (lit. Six Road: Buddhist terminology meaning transmigration in the six paths of life). As there is no shack-like cover over the jizo, this photo was taken after 1878.