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雲林寺(猫寺)
萩市街地から車で30分ほどのむつみ地域にある、千体地蔵が有名なお寺。雲林寺は、萩藩開祖である毛利輝元とその夫人、殉死者 長井治郎左衛門元房の墓がある天樹院(萩市堀内)の末寺です。
Temple familiar as ‘cat temple’ or ‘nekodera’
以「貓寺」聞名的寺廟
Although Unrinji has been a Rinzai Zen temple for over 400 years, it is now widely known as Neko-dera, or “Cat Temple.” It was once a sub-temple of Tenjuin, the temple that enshrines daimyo Mōri Terumoto (1553–1625), who led the move of the domain’s headquarters from Hiroshima to Hagi. After Terumoto’s death in 1625, his retainer Nagai Motofusa (d. 1625) committed ritual suicide. Motofusa’s cat is said to have bit through its tongue and died from grief over its owner’s death. According to local legend, following the death of Motofusa’s cat, lonesome mewing could be heard in the temple at night. Eventually one of the monks at Tenjuin, performed a Buddhist memorial service (kuyō) for the cat’s spirit and the mewing ceased.
雲林寺是距今已有400多年歷史的臨濟宗寺廟,現以「猫寺」之名廣為人知。
雲林寺獨家製作了以貓為構思的繪馬和護身符,以及描繪貓咪的幽默插圖的《法華經》等。作為貓寺的雲林寺,在日本國內外相當受到歡迎,世界各地的參拜者都特地造訪。
這座寺廟內還供奉著在附近村莊發現的800多尊地藏菩薩像。
When head monk Sumida Jisei came to the temple in 1996, the temple was not as strongly associated with the legend of Motofusa’s cat as it is today. Through Sumida’s passion and as the legend grew more well known, the temple came to be called Neko-dera. Its main building contains a huge variety of cat-themed artwork, clippings from newspapers and magazines, and other items. Most of the wooden cats that can be seen throughout the temple are the work of Yamaguchi-based chainsaw artist Takao Hayashi. Famous illustrators from Japan’s anime and manga studios have also donated cat-themed artwork.
Unrinji has produced its own cat-themed votive tablets (neko ema), protective amulets, a manga pamphlet, “An Illustrated Book on Fortune-Beckoning Cats,” and a copy of the Lotus Sutra that includes humorous feline illustrations. Head monk Sumida says that he wants to use cat-based stories and materials to share the wisdom of the Buddha with visitors to the temple. He performs daily kuyō services intended to ease the suffering of the deceased, including services for deceased pets.
Unrinji has found popularity across Japan and overseas as Neko-dera, and it receives visitors from around the world. The temple also houses more than 800 statues of the bodhisattva Jizō that were discovered in a nearby village.
During the Covid-19 pandemic that began in 2020, Takao Hayashi donated a sculpture of a feline version of an amabie, a mythical creature that is said to ward off disease.
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