temple (Buddhist)Ochanomizu, Yushima, Korakuen

Rinsenji Temple, Shibare Jizo (Myogadani, Tokyo)（Rinsenji Shrine Shibarare Jisou)

JizoOooka Tale of the Political Crisis (1905-1912)Soto school (of Zen Buddhism)

Rinsenji Temple is a Soto sect temple founded in 1602. On the left side of the entrance stairs, there is a Jizo statue called “Shibare Jizo” wrapped in a rope. The custom of “Shibare Jizo” is recorded in “Ooka Masadana,” which says, “When a person who has stolen or lost something makes a wish, he or she binds the Jizo with a rope, and if the wish comes true, the rope is released. Although the story originates from an anecdote at Nanzoin Temple, now located in Katsushika Ward, Rinsenji’s Shibare Jizo is also well known, and Rinsenji is also described as “Shibarare Jizo” in the late Edo period “Kedokiri-ezu” Koishikawa-edu (Edo period drawing).

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