Syoumen-Kongou-Koushintou
The oldest Syoumen-Kongou-Koushintou stone statue in Japan can be seen at the Samukawa-Jinjya Shrine Houtoku Museum.
You can see a similar Koushintou in Chigasaki City. It is at the entrance of Kanayama shrine on the way to Bunkyo University from Samukawa station.
Syoumen-Kongou is a god of Koushin faith and is said to have the power to cure disease. Syoumen-Kongou’s body is blue, and has 2 to 6 hands.
An insect living in the body tells God the abuse of that person at midnight on the day of the Koushin. So, people stay up all night so that insects can not speak ill of God. (In fact, it is an excuse for having drunk and eating all night.)
We can not understand that the body is blue with a stone statue. The following is a Syoumen-Kongou-Koushintou wooden statue. You can see that the body is blue.
崇蓮寺の木造青面金剛像
(そうれんじのもくぞうしょうめんこんごうぞう)
Kasukabe City designated cultural property
(春日部市指定文化財)
http://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/205448
An insect living in the body tells God the abuse of that person at midnight on the day of the Koushin. So, people stay up all night so that insects can not speak ill of God. (In fact, it is an excuse for having drunk and eating all night.)
We can not understand that the body is blue with a stone statue. The following is a Syoumen-Kongou-Koushintou wooden statue. You can see that the body is blue.
崇蓮寺の木造青面金剛像
(そうれんじのもくぞうしょうめんこんごうぞう)
Kasukabe City designated cultural property
(春日部市指定文化財)
http://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/205448
