菊池容斋 · Public domain
Early Heian period · 758–811
Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
坂上田村麻呂 · Japan
Seii Taishōgun (shogun)
A court noble and general of the early Heian period, he served as dainagon and Minister of War and was appointed Seii Taishōgun to subdue the Emishi of the eastern provinces. Later picture books portrayed him as a hero who vanquished demons.
Where the story happened
Los lugares que dejó
Leyenda · Kiyomizu-dera
The deer-hunting general and Kiyomizu-dera
According to temple tradition, in 778 the monk Kenshin (later renamed Enchin) received a revelation in a dream and came to practise beside the waterfall on Mount Otowa. Two years later Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, hunting in the mountains for deer blood as medicine for his sick wife, met Kenshin and was deeply moved. In 798 he and Enchin built the main hall on a large scale and enshrined Bishamonten and Jizō Bodhisattva.
