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Cat invites you Traditional Cache

Hidden : 4/1/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Cache point is near Otiai-Minami-Nagasaki Sta.

Cache is hidden near Nakai Jishoin temple.
Cache size is small,but please bring a writting pen.

Here is "Neko-Jizo".
Jizo is one of the four principal bodhisattvas in East Asian Mahayana Buddhism.
Cat masked Jizo is enshrined here.

This Temple called "Neko-dera(Cat Temple)" is familiar by the episode that one black cat invited "Ota Dokan(samurai warrior-poet)" to this temple, and saved his life in Battle of Ekoda.

----- Japanese -----
落合南長崎が最寄り駅となります。

中井 自性院の近くにキャッシュはあります。
スモールですが、筆記用具持参にてお願いします。

ここに珍しい「猫地蔵」が、奉られています。
江古田ヶ原の戦の折に、太田道灌が一匹の黒猫に救われたことから、猫寺という愛称で親しまれています。
猫地蔵は2月節分時にのみ公開となっています。

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