doujiseki 童子石
KEY WORD : architecture / general term
 
Lit. guardian boy's stones. Two symbolic garden stones (see *yakuishi 役石) representing boy deities, *Kongara douji 矜羯羅童子 and *Seitaka douji 制た迦童子, which stand either side of a stone representing the fierce deity *Fudou Myouou 不動明王 (fudouseki 不動石) . This is one arrangement of buddhist triad stones *sanzon iwagumi 三尊石組.
 
 

 
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*soe-ishi 添石
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