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The Dancing Chanting of Buddhist Prayers Accompanied by Beating Drums, "Ippen Shonin," Also Began by Steadily Handing Out Wooden Plaques.

August 23rd, 1289, the second year of the Shoo era, is the anniversary of Ippen Shonin's death. In 2013, there was news that the "Wooden Standing Statue of Ippen Shonin," a nationally designated Important Cultural Property, had been burned down, so some of you may have a vague memory of this. He was born in 1239, so he was exactly 50 years old when he died (51 years old by the traditional Japanese age reckoning). A new world of survival of the f…
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August 23rd, 1289, the second year of the Shoo era, is the anniversary of Ippen Shonin's death. In 2013, there was news that the "Wooden Standing Statue of Ippen Shonin," a nationally designated Important Cultural Property, had been burned down, so some of you may have a vague memory of this. He was born in 1239, so he was exactly 50 years old when he died (51 years old by the traditional Japanese age reckoning). A new world of survival of the f…

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BUSHOO!JAPAN(武将ジャパン) broke the news in on Friday, August 22, 2025.
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