HitokageProduction | Offering Red Bibs and Caps to Buddhist Jizo 地蔵 Statues in Japan @Hitokage | Uploaded 5 months ago | Updated 14 hours ago
Ojizō-sama or just Jizō (地蔵) is a Buddhist deity that protects travelers and deceased babies. They are everywhere in Japan, especially near hiking trails, at roads, in temples, etc. A lot of these statues are associated with the temple or with a family that owns it. People put red bibs and caps on these statues and even on other ones like the divine foxes at Fushimi Inari or Buddha statues. These pieces of clothes are mostly red since this color repels evil forces. This act protects the travelers and the donors and also can be done as a prayer for the souls of the babies that have died. My mom loved this compassionate act and wanted to do the same. We did some research and even asked local people and found out that as tourists we should be careful with this as statues that belong to people are not suitable for us since the owners are likely to offer their own bibs and caps. So we found abandoned ones in the middle of the forest near a hiking trail. There were no signs of anyone putting bibs there so we assumed that these statues were probably safe to decorate with our little gift.
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Used software: Blender
#japan
#buddhism
#zen
#japantravel
#jizo
#shinto
#仏教
#地蔵
Ojizō-sama or just Jizō (地蔵) is a Buddhist deity that protects travelers and deceased babies. They are everywhere in Japan, especially near hiking trails, at roads, in temples, etc. A lot of these statues are associated with the temple or with a family that owns it. People put red bibs and caps on these statues and even on other ones like the divine foxes at Fushimi Inari or Buddha statues. These pieces of clothes are mostly red since this color repels evil forces. This act protects the travelers and the donors and also can be done as a prayer for the souls of the babies that have died. My mom loved this compassionate act and wanted to do the same. We did some research and even asked local people and found out that as tourists we should be careful with this as statues that belong to people are not suitable for us since the owners are likely to offer their own bibs and caps. So we found abandoned ones in the middle of the forest near a hiking trail. There were no signs of anyone putting bibs there so we assumed that these statues were probably safe to decorate with our little gift.
Download stock audio/video and read articles on my website: hitokageproduction.com
Used software: Blender
#japan
#buddhism
#zen
#japantravel
#jizo
#shinto
#仏教
#地蔵
