leaving the Jizo-do and traveled another short flight of stairs, you reach the heart of religious Overall, the set of rooms made up of a Kannon-do, and and Amida-do-do Daikoku, in addition to ' Kyozo , archive sutra of the temple. The history of the Kannon-do is tied to a legend dating from the early eighth century.
The Legend of Monaco Tokudo Shonin and camphor tree.
It is said that in 721 the monaco Tokudo Shonin discovered a large camphor tree forests on the mountains around Nara . The trunk was so large that it allows you to make two large statues of the goddess Kannon. The statue taken from the lower trunk was taken to temple near Nara Hase , while the larger of the two statues, carved in the upper torso was thrown into the sea near present-day Osaka, accompanied by the prayers of his miraculous return to the mainland, so that could save the people.
Fifteen years later, the night of 18 June 736, it was found in Nagai beach along the Miura Peninsula , not far from Kamakura. It is said that upon finding it exudes an aura of light.
The statue was moved to Kamakura, and was built around it the whole dell'Hase, which bears the same name of the temple containing the statue of Nara mate.
Kannon-do
The statue of Kannon, more than 9 meters high, is situated in the room, the very heart of the temple. It has eleven heads over to the main one, three on the forehead, three on the left, three right and one above his head and back, each with a different expression dedicated to listening to different people's needs. The statue of camphor wood was covered with gold leaf in 1342, while the great aura was added in 1392. Although Kannon is often seen as a female deity, it is a sexless deity, Avalokitesvara a Bodishisattva, consumption for general lighting and is mercy, compassion and love.
Above you can see the roofs of the Kannon-do.
Amida-do
Fifteen years later, the night of 18 June 736, it was found in Nagai beach along the Miura Peninsula , not far from Kamakura. It is said that upon finding it exudes an aura of light.
The statue was moved to Kamakura, and was built around it the whole dell'Hase, which bears the same name of the temple containing the statue of Nara mate.
Kannon-do
The statue of Kannon, more than 9 meters high, is situated in the room, the very heart of the temple. It has eleven heads over to the main one, three on the forehead, three on the left, three right and one above his head and back, each with a different expression dedicated to listening to different people's needs. The statue of camphor wood was covered with gold leaf in 1342, while the great aura was added in 1392. Although Kannon is often seen as a female deity, it is a sexless deity, Avalokitesvara a Bodishisattva, consumption for general lighting and is mercy, compassion and love.
Above you can see the roofs of the Kannon-do.
Amida-do
On the right-of starch, there is a large bronze bell, which beats every December 31 of the 108 strokes joya-no-kane, the ritual by which the sufferings of humanity are lost .
(the bronze bell - photo by James Willamor , used under CC license)
Proceeding to the left of the entrance of the Kannon-do, there is a small museum ( Homotsu -kan) and the room Daikoku-do and repository for sutras Kyozo .
Daikoku-do this room also contains a statue, a picture of Daikokuten, Homotsu replica of the original placed in the museum nearby. Daikokuten is another of the seven gods of fortune, goddess of abundance, or even better than the good harvest.
Kyozo
The archive room of the sutras is smaller and more decentralized than the other. Inside is a Rinzi , the large cylinder with hundreds of wooden shelves designed to accommodate the rolls of the sutra. Both me and Federica we did do a complete turn to Rinzi: it is traditional to think that making this little ritual right to acquire the wisdom of the sutras it contains.
If people are visiting is not great and there is enough silence, the experience is really fascinating!
If people are visiting is not great and there is enough silence, the experience is really fascinating!
(Kyozo - photo by jpellgen used under CC license)
The visit to the temple Hase, however, is not only an experience of a cultural or religious, is an immersion in an incredible, lush nature, and during good seasons can get a beautiful dark green dotted with dozens of different flowers, in a burst of color and scent that has few equals in the world.
Another staircase leads to several vantage points hidden in the countryside.
Here and there, a small statue or lantern will draw your attention, not until your view will span the bay that can be glimpsed through the branches of trees or dense bamboo.
Another staircase leads to several vantage points hidden in the countryside.
Here and there, a small statue or lantern will draw your attention, not until your view will span the bay that can be glimpsed through the branches of trees or dense bamboo.
Bay Kamakura.
The small bamboo forest near the Kyozo.
The statues of these little monks tell us that a certain inclination to stylized graphics from the Japanese goes back to distant periods of its history and is in no way an invention of the media of our time - anime and manga in the first place - which, rather, constitute the most recent reading.
(Statues of monks - photo by Faith - all right reserved) 
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