The temple worships mothers breasts in Japan

The Japanese concept udder represent fertility so often hanging breasts model Jison-In temple to beg safe pregnancy, breast milk is abundant.


Temple Jison-In (From the Sun) is located on Mount Koya (High Field), the most sacred mountain of Japan Wakayama Prefecture, Honshu - Japan's largest island.
The temple bearing the Japanese Buddhist architecture. Inside there are thousands of women breast model with all shapes and sizes.


Visitors to the temple worship, and hang up these models in many different angles. There is something made of cloth stuffed, there is only one piece of wood and then painted whittled round.


According to Annan's abbot, the practice began many years ago when a doctor came to pray for a patient being treated for breast cancer. The doctor asked the monk lets put breasts women to pray in the temple blessing.


Since then, many people started to come here to pray, please bless women's health.
"Udder represent birth. Therefore, people often use it to pray for peace during pregnancy, do not suffer from cancer, or even obtain abundant milk to breastfeed," Bade Annan, the abbot for 40 years said.

Jison-In is the only temple in Japan to sell women's breasts model in place for visitors, Mr. Annan added.


Kannon statue in the Temple Row Jison-In. The Japanese concept, Quan is a buddha protect children and people away.

The temple is one of the few gateway to Kumando Kodo, the pilgrimage of Buddhists including 7 trails up the mountain Koya.


Not Hai Grand Master was the first to practice in Mount Koya 819. He is the founder of Shingon, an esoteric sect of Chinese tourists to Japan 805 years.

Today, the land on Mount Koya became a town with a university research and teaching religion, with 100 temples and a population of about 3,000 people, is the center of the Shingon missionary domestic out.


In this picture Michi Choishi trails, made up of 180 choshi means stone marker, indicating the beginning of the pilgrimage route. Trails 24 km long, 109 meters manner Hai Grand Master was not marked, leading to Danjo Garan Dan, one of the sacred temples on Mount Koya.


Until late 1800, Japanese women are still not allowed on the sacred Mount Koya. According to legend, the native of Shanghai Grand Master not live in Jison-In. Each month, he will walk 24 km from Mount Koya down Jison-In 9 times to visit his mother.
"Therefore, this town also known Kudoyama, means mountain nine times," Annan said Bade.

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