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Madarakishin:

Depicted with wild long hair!

マダラ鬼神/Madarakishin=MadaraDemonGod is said to originate as the indian guardian deity of Mt. Fudaraku\Potalaka, the mythical resting place of Kannon\Avalokiteśvara, the buddhavista of mercy.

Madarakishin is celebrated every year on the second Sunday in April at Rakuhoji temple of the Shingon sect at mt. Amabiki at Sakuragawa City. The festival is a good time to see the cherry blossoms bloom.

The temple a very beautiful place. If you ever come to Ibaraki, be sure to visit!

Festival Background:

Long ago, two warring factions burned the temple down, but miraculously, the main idol, a statue of Kannon was unharmed. An army of masked oni led by Madarakishin appeared and rebuilt the temple in 17 nights. And the festival was held to honor him.

(In the past oni\鬼 also described people who were anti establishment, because from the establishment perspective they are demons.)

Left to right is Kannon, the main idol(also Kannon), and Fudoumyouou\Acalanātha, the “immovable guardian”.

Festival:

Followed by a parade, Madarakishin rides up on a white horse. Him and five demons dance around a fire. At the end, they shoot arrows for people to catch for good luck and rice cakes are thrown. Afterwards, they let you take photos!

The festival is one of the two major oni festivals of Japan, with ToyohashiOniMatsuri!

Matarajin:

Madarakishin is the same as 摩多羅神\Matarajin, who is worshiped by esoteric Buddhism sects, especially the Tendai. Matarajin is mysterious and has a lot of associations, being conflated with many other gods.

Matarajin is depicted as an old man with a drum in his hand under the big dipper next to two dancing children 丁禮多\Teireita and 爾子多\Nishita.

He is called the “Dream King” that appears in a buddavista’s dream in the Golden Light Sutra, as a priest who plays a golden drum.

“Dancing god”, “god of entertainment/performance arts”. Matarajin is said to be the same as Hatanokawakatsu, the founder of sarugaku and noh. Called “god of the back door”, because he would be enshrined in front of the back door of temples to protect the main idol. Rituals involving dancing, etc. were done there to ward off evil spirits and said to be the origin of public entertainment/performance arts of the middle ages in Japan.

Matarajin has some fierce elements, being a “wild god”, “wrathful god”, or “hindrance god”. He causes hindrances to enemies if he is an ally, but is a hindrance if he is an enemy. It could also mean that he is a god of people who have hindrances, like blindness or disease.

Also considered to be a “god of outcasts/discriminated people”, or an “outskirts/inn God”. The sick, former criminals, traveling performers, beggars, wanderers, etc. were considered “dirty” or “nonHuman” and so would live on the outskirts, make their own inns/villages or stay near temples and rely on Matarajin to ward off evil spirits.

He’s a “star god”, associated with the big dipper. He is a god who can tell one’s fate and future, and in the Tendai Sect controlled life and death. A tendai monk later attempted reform in the sect and Matarajin worship was condemned as evil and it was banned, so the belief weakened.

Matarajin is conflated with Dakiniten, and so he is said to eat livers/heart/innards/guts of worshipers so that they can pass on to the next life. It can take a sad turn, as it is said discriminated people may pray to Matarajin as a "god of salvation", to eat their lives and end their suffereing.

Dakiniten was fabled to be a kishin who murdered as she needs human innards to live. Daikokuten made her unable to kill, but gave her the ability to see 6 months before a person died, allowing her to eat without killing and becomeing worshiped for it. Dakiniten is conflated with inari, and Izunagongen, and can be depicted on a fox, sometimes holding a sickle.

Izunagongen:

(飯縄/飯綱)権現/Izunagongen is a god from buddism-shinto merging, said to be an incarnation of Fudoumyouou(holding sword and rope, fire on back), in addition to be a combination of four other gods. Sometimes called Izunasaburo, “third son”, because it is said that he is third of the ten princes which came from India to live in the mountains of Japan.

Izunagongen is depicted as a blue crow tengu standing on a fox, although normally daitengu have a long nose.

Izunagongen is a “God of Victory”, and is said to have created the Izuna Method which was used to control fox spirits, or Kudakitsune, which can fit into bamboo shoots and has magical powers such as divination, disaster causing. It was a sort of witchcraft used by ninjas during the warring states era. Izuna also became a synonym for the fox spirit.

There are the Three (Major) Daitengu Temples of Japan, which are Kyoto’s Kuramadera, which has Kurama Tengu said to have taught Ushiwakamaru kenjutsu, Tokyo’s Yakuouin, which is dedicated to Izunagongen, and Numata’s Ryuugein, which is famous for its daitengu masks, one of which fabled to have been left behind by a monk with magical powers.

Extra:

There is another manga series called Madara with the illustrator name is Shouu Tajima. The Story of the Manga is like Dodoro, where his father sacrificed Madara's 8 chakras/body parts to demons, which he defeats to take them back with a prosthetic body.

Some fans said that the protag kind of looks like young Madara, but I think short spiky black hair is common in protagonists.

天狗\tengu\HeavenDog\ originated as the Chinese word for meteors which would fall near the earth, making the sound of a roaring dog, running across the heavens, and was seen as bad omen.

If I saw this above the sky, I think that it would be a bad omen.

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