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| | JAANUS / Hakusan mandara 白山曼荼羅 |
 | | Devotional paintings of the cult of Hakusan 白山 ("white mountains"), a group of mountains that border Gifu, Fukui, Ishikawa, and Toyama prefectures. |
 | | Hakusan is celebrated in the MAN'YOUSHUU 万葉集 which was compiled in the 8c, and the first oracle from the deity was said to have been recieved in 719 by Taichou, 泰澄, the founder of the cult (kaizan 開山). |
 | | The Hakusan Sansho Gongen 白山三所権現 may be the deities of the mountains (Bessan 別山, Gozenpou 御前峰, and Oonanjimine 大汝峰) whose Buddhist counterparts (*honjibutsu 本地仏) may be identified as *Shou Kannon 聖観音, *Juuichimen Kannon 十一面観音 and *Amida 阿弥陀, although they are sometimes vary. |
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