Shinran Shonin

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Saint Shinran


Small statue for your home :
source :　www.kaiyodo.co.jp


Shinran 親鸞
(May 21, 1173 – January 16, 1263)
was a Japanese Buddhist monk, who was born in Hino (now a part of Fushimi, Kyoto) at the turbulent close of the Heian Period and lived during the Kamakura Period. Shinran was a pupil of Hōnen and the founder of what ultimately became the Jōdo Shinshū sect in Japan.

Shinran was born on May 21, 1173 to Lord and Lady Arinori, a branch of the Fujiwara clan, and was given the name Matsuwakamaro.

1173 Shinran is born
1175 Hōnen founds the Jōdo Shū sect
1181 Shinran becomes a monk
1201 Shinran becomes a disciple of Hōnen and leaves Mt. Hiei
1207 The nembutsu ban and Shinran's exile
1211 Shinran is pardoned
1212 Hōnen passes away in Kyoto & Shinran goes to Kantō
1224 (?) Shinran authors Kyogyoshinsho
1234 (?) Shinran goes back to Kyoto
1256 Shinran disowns his son Zenran
1263 Shinran dies in Kyoto
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observance kigo for mid-winter

Shinran ki 親鸞忌 （しんらんき）
Memorial Day for Saint Shinran
Goshoo-Ki 御正忌 Memorial Services at Temple Hongan-Ji
Betsuji Nenbutsu-E 別時念仏会 Nenbutsu prayer Service for Shinran Shoonin
Otorikoshi 御取越　 （おとりこし） "Passing into the New Year"
November 22 till 28. 28 is the death memorial day.
(November is now "early winter" season, this might be confusing. But here we deal with the old lunar calendar.)




hooonkoo 報恩講（ほうおんこう） Ho-onko, Hoonko, Hoon-Ko service for Shinran
"honorable preaching ceremony"
Hoon-ko memorial service for Shinran
okoo 御講（おこう） "honorable preaching"
oshichiya, o-shichi ya 御七夜（おしちや） "seven nights"
oshimotsuki お霜月（おしもつき）"honorable frost month"
injoo e 引上会（いんじょうえ）

shoojin katame 精進固（しょうじんかため）
eating vegetarian food
... shoojin ochi 精進落（しょうじんおち）
(even on the days before the ceremonies, also during O-Bon and the solstices)

. Reference : Hoonko service for Shinran .



. Narutaki no daikotaki 鳴滝の大根焚
cooking radish soup at Narutaki
..... daikotaki 大根焚（だいこたき） .
temple Narutaki Ryootokuji in Kyoto 京都鳴滝了徳寺.
Ryotoku-Ji

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heaven kigo for early winter

okoonagi 御講凪 calm wind during the honorable preaching ceremony
okoobiyori お講日和（おこうびより） fine day on the honorable preaching ceremony



observance kigo for the New Year

. Kenpaishiki 献盃式 in memory of Saint Shinran 　
Drinking sake in a memorial service, at temple Honganji and others
January 1. Shinran Shonin 親鸞聖人


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from the Daruma Museum


南無阿弥陀仏
The Amida Prayer, Namu Amida Butsu
Buddha Amitabha vowed to save all beings, even those who have committed serious transgressions. This vow prompted Saint Shinran, the founder of the True Pure Land school of Buddhism, to write,
"A good person will be reborm;
how much more so the evil person."
. The Amida Prayer 　


. Shinran and the three persimmon trees
Legend at Keitaya, Niigata (Toyama) prefecture,
Kurobe Town, Shimoniikawa 新川（にいかわ）/ 黒部市三島



. Haiku poetess Tagami Kikusha 田上菊舎 　
(1753 - 1826)



Commemorate Shinran Shonin's 750th Memorial Observance
with Poetry Calling for Haiku and Tanka
. BCA Shinran Shonin 750th Memorial 　



. Honen Shonin 法然上人 Saint Honen 　
Hoonen Shoonin


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Shinran : The Founder of the Jodo-Shinshu Buddhism:
His Life and Legacy
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, till May 29, 2011

A preeminent work in the Shinran exhibition is "Portrait of Shinran" (1255). It depicts an 83-year-old Shinran sitting on an animal pelt, an accoutrement of itinerant priests that allowed them to sit anywhere to dispense their doctrine. Such aspects of quotidian life were distinctive of new Buddhist portraiture and were no doubt indicative of the religion practiced among the people rather than that practiced in cloistered confines. Such portraits are concerned with likeness and prone to distortion.
One leaves these exhibitions with similar thoughts on religions.
source : Japan Times

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The Essential Shinran:
A Buddhist Path of True Entrusting
Alfred Bloom




Call of the Infinite: The Way of Shin Buddhism
John Paraskevopoulos


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H A I K U


親鸞聖人お花松 "Flower Pine" of Shinran
Temple Zenko-Ji



蝶とぶやしんらん松も知った顔
choo tobu ya Shinran matsu mo shitta kao

a butterfly flits--
even Shinran's pine
seems to know


しんしんとしんらん松の春の雨
shin-shin to Shinran matsu no haru no ame

perfect calm--
Shinran's pine
in the spring rain

Kobayashi Issa

This haiku has the prescript, "Zenko Temple." Shinran was the founder of the Jôdo shinshû branch of Buddhism, Issa's sect. When he visited Zenkôji, Shinran planted the branch of a pine in a large pot in the main hall-- a plant which, evidently, was still alive in Issa's time, over 500 years later.
See Issa zenshû
(Nagano: Shinano Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1976-79) 3.352, note 4.

. Tr. David Lanoue .

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親鸞上人腰かけの松 Pine where Shinran sat down

On the way, when Shinran had to go to exile in Echigo in 1207, there was this pine where he sat down to rest, along the "beach road" 浜街道. There was a whole pine grove at the time of Sain Shinran.
The tree is maybe 500 years old.


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source : Takada betsuin Temple 高田別院
beautiful collection of haiga


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. WKD : Saints and their Memorial Days 　


. Personal Names used in Haiku . 　


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