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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