Blog#3 Ganjinwajyou museum(Ryo)

Do you know Ganjin? Is it a name? or a place? The answer is a name of  chinese buddhist priest(688~763).  Ganjin was a eager buddhist priest and he is popular with sailing to Japan to propagate commandments to Japan. But, at that time, sailing abroad was not easy. So, he had failures to sail to Japan. And, unfortunately, at the his 4th try, he had loss of eye sights. At 5th try,  he was succeed to sail to Japan at last!!




Tousyoudaiji

I went to show of Ganjinwajyouzou at Ueno park in 2005 with my father. Fortunately, it was carried to Tokyo and I could see it. Always, it is in Tousyoudaiji in Nara prefucture. There were many visitors and some of them were foreighners. I was impressed with seeing the Ganjinwajyouzou. It was so small that I was very surprised. It's sixe is about 80 cm. He build Tousyoudaiji in Nara  in 759. It was build to be a ascetic practice place for Japanese munks to learn commandments. If you want to see it, you have to go to Nara. If you have a chance, go to Nara and see the Ganjinwajyou and Tousyoudaiji!!