Fudo

Outside Sendai on Monday, Hiromi Fudo waited for hours with his wife and hundreds of others at the Maruhon Cowboy supermarket, hoping to get food because their supply of potable water and non-perishable food for six people was running perilously low.

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In the room on the other side of mine were two men with severe eye-disease, with shaven heads and long and curious rosaries, who beat small drums as they walked, and were on pilgrimage to the shrine of Fudo at Megura, near Yedo, a seated, flame-surrounded idol, with a naked sword in one hand and a coil of rope in the other, who has the reputation of giving sight to the blind.

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Nicholas had little first-hand knowledge of such affairs yet it was true that secreted along the city's riotous streets, like tiny pockets of the past encysted within the neon age, were numerous shrines to Fudo-miyo-o, the deity overseeing such matters as concerned the dedicated businessman.

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Show me one of our young artists who can stand like Fudo in the flame of his own creative thought!

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It was one of those small Fudo [u] temples, tucked away on a shelf of the hillside just above the roadway, embowered in trees, with its tiny fall and rock basin for the enthusiastic sinner bathing in the waters of this bitterly cold day.

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To the horror of the priest he gave the wooden Fudo [u] which adorned the chamber such a whack that the unfortunate and flawed divinity parted into its aged fragments.

Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

The _do [u] mori_ of the Fudo [u], his zeal and honesty, his purity of heart and manners are vouched for by those who know.

Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

[Page 77] 1 Fudo: a terrible-looking Buddhist idol who was thought to have the power to subdue all evil spirits.

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920

On the south side there sat in many rows abbots and other dignitaries of the priesthood, who prayed and swore till their voices grew hoarse, as if they were bringing down the living form of Fudo.

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920

In the Butsudan is placed by the Montoshu the statue of Amida, by the Jodoshu that of Shaka, by the Hokkeishu, that of Nichiren, by the Shingonshu, that of Fudo (the Immovable).

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