O-eshiki Festivals in Tokyo
According to legend, the ground shook and the cherry blossoms bloomed out of season on an October day in 1282 when Nichiren Daishonin, a famous Japanese Buddhist priest, passed from this world. Nichiren Daishonin was the founder of Nichiren Shoshi, a 750 year old orthodox Buddhist denomination centered at Taisekiji, near the foot of Mount Fuji, and is considered by many to be the One True Buddha.
His immortal life is celebrated at O-eshiki festivals throughout Japan each October with parades of mando and of matoi (firemen’s standards of the Edo period) accompanied by drummers and flautists. A mando, literally “10,000 …read more
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