2022/1/24 (英語日記) Ekan Ikeguchi

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January 24th, 2022. Monday.

Ekan Ikeguchi

In the evening I attended an inauguration party of Ekan Ikuguchi. He became Shukuro, which was the highest position of Shingon Buddhism. He was a very famous monk because he was very acquainted with many politicians including Shinzo Abe, Junichiro Koizumi and Heizo Takenaka.

He was also well-known that he put in a winning bid of the building of General Association of North Korean as an auction property 8 years ago. So he was also called the monster monk of Nagatacho.

But he, as a monk of Shingon Buddhismdid, did a great work called “the million pieces’ goma fire ritual”. He continued the goma fire ritual every day up to a million pieces of wood sticks. They had to be burned into the flame one by one. He was the only one that attained such a severe practice. His magic power was so strong that many of patients recovered from their illness.

If you would like to image what kind of rite Gomadaki was, please refer to the attached site.

That party was originally commemorative of his promotion. However, because it was under the circumstances of COVID-19, he and his disciples said their prayers in the way of Shingon Buddhism for about 1 hour.

We were planning to have dinner with special dishes which had been used when it was enthronement ceremony of Emperor Hirohito. It was truly unfortunate that dinner party was canceled due to pandemic omicron mutation.

We shook hands with Ekan-san after finishing the ceremony and went back home.

I will refer to a magnificent book written by him named “密教の呪術”, which I wrote a book review once.

I also attach the link about him in English Wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org

Corrected

January 24th, 2022. Monday.

Ekan Ikeguchi

In the evening I attended an inauguration party of Ekan Ikuguchi. He became Shukuro, which was the highest position of Shingon Buddhism. He was a very famous monk because he was very acquainted with many politicians including Shinzo Abe, Junichiro Koizumi and Heizo Takenaka.

He was also well-known because he put in a winning bid of the building of General Association of North Korean as an auction property 8 years ago. So he was also called the monster monk of Nagatacho.

But he, as a monk of Shingon Buddhismdid, did a great work called “the million pieces’ goma fire ritual”. He continued the goma fire ritual every day up to a million pieces of wood sticks. They had to be burned into the flame one by one. He was the only one that attained such a severe practice. His magic power was so strong that many of the patients recovered from their illness.

If you like to image what kind of rite Gomadaki was, please refer to the attached site.

That party was originally commemorative of his promotion. However, because it was under the circumstances of COVID-19, he and his disciples said their prayers in the way of Shingon Buddhism for about 1 hour.

We were planning to have dinner with special dishes which had been used when it was the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Hirohito. It was truly unfortunate that the dinner party was canceled due to pandemic omicron mutation.

We shook hands with Ekan-san after finishing the ceremony and went back home.

I will refer to a magnificent book written by him named “密教の呪術”, which I wrote a book review once.

I also attach the link about him in English Wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org

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