Marishi-ten / Higashiyama / Kyoto

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Marishi-Ten 摩利支天 is a deity of buddhism ZEN, important in Shingon and Tendai sects. this deity offers protection, and victory to all the bushi (warriors) of the past japan, on this representation this deity is perched on an Inoshishi (a boar) some old martial arts schools as the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu, which is devoted to Futsunushi no o kami, consider that if a bushi (practitionner) fails to his allegeance to the school (done by the Keppan: blood pledge chart), he will receive a punishment of Marishi-Ten To have her protection, it is needed to gently stroke with 2 hands the statue PS: As other divinities, in japan: buddha and bodhisattva can be represented as women, despite the fact that they are males