🇯🇵 稗田の里公園 (廃村) & 耳岩菩薩 福井県池田町 Hieda Park & Mimi-iwa Bodhisattva, Ikeda Fukui | 2025 [4K Binaural]
稗田川と村松川が合流するこの地は、かつて稗田集落があり、昭和三十年代に廃村になるまでは人が住む地で、僅かに残る石積みや、耳岩菩薩の存在によってその面影を垣間見ることが出来ます。
稗田の里では、水車や十二支石像を配して、豊かな自然環境と共に暮らしていた人々の昔日の面影を表現しています。(案内板より)
This area where the Hieda River and Muramatsu River converge was once home to the Hieda settlement, where people lived until the village was abandoned in the 1930s. Traces of this past can still be glimpsed through the few remaining stone structures and the presence of the Mimiiwa Bosatsu (Buddha statue). The Hieda no Sato area features water wheels and zodiac stone statues to represent the bygone days of people who lived in harmony with the rich natural environment. (From the information board)
English Translations for Stone Monuments:
(3:10): In the past, this area was called Hieda in Shimoikeda Village, Imadate District. In the late Meiji period, it was a naturally rich and quiet mountain village where residents from nine households totaling fifty people made their living. Due to changes in society and living conditions as well as transportation inconveniences, some people left the village, and by 1957 (Showa 32), it became completely uninhabited. However, the people planted cedar saplings on the sites of their former homes before leaving this place. Time passed, and the planted cedars and vegetation grew large. The area became completely overgrown beyond recognition, and even the hall of the Ear Jizo fell into ruin.
Believing it was my destiny to show gratitude for the benevolence of ancestors who lived with sincerity, I invested my private funds from 1980 (Showa 55) to 2010 (Heisei 22) to develop this area as a park. People from the neighborhood and former residents who learned of this undertaking offered their cooperation. I am particularly grateful to those who understood the purpose and contributed their efforts out of goodwill, making the completion possible. In gratitude for this, I erected this memorial monument to be passed down to future generations forever.
(3:59): Mimi-iwa Bodhisattva (Ear Rock Bodhisattva)
This area where the Hieda River and Muramatsu River converge was once the site of Hieda village.
Along the valley streams in this area with clean water, many biting midges (buyo) that inhabit waterside areas and mountains would breed, and many villagers suffered from ear diseases when these insects entered their ears.
One night, several villagers had the same divine revelation in their dreams: “The rock face beside Hakusan Shrine is now buried under earth and sand and cannot be seen, but it is the Ear Bodhisattva. If you immediately remove the earth and sand and pray to this Bodhisattva, ear diseases will be cured.”
When the villagers promptly removed the earth and sand, a rock face shaped like an ear appeared. After they washed and purified it and offered prayers, the villagers’ ear diseases were immediately cured.
From then on, it is said that not a single person in Hieda suffered from ear disease.
Word of this spread, and people came from various places to visit. Many people from distant places came on behalf of others, and it is said that all who made pilgrimages had their ear diseases cured—truly a miraculous Bodhisattva.
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Date: June 6th 2025
Weather: 24 / 23 °C Sunny
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