Slope in Baiko, Mito City

Baiko has several slopes.

Slope to Sennbatyo ー oohasi Slope going toward the station (get off at Miyamachi)
Slope down to the Baiko tunnel entrance intersection (west of the Baiko viaduct)
Slope down along the Baiko tunnel

 

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The birthplace of Toko Fujita is at the beginning of the slope down to Senbatyo-oohashi.

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* Toko Fujita (1806-1855)

Mito clan “samurai”, scholar at the end of the Edo period

There is a “Koku Shrine” in the middle of this slope.

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※虚空 神社 = Koku Shrine

虚空 may be similar to “void”, but there are some differences.

In Buddhist language, it seems to mean “a space as a place where everything exists without any hindrance.”

It seems that it is related to Matsuyama Kokuzo-do (Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki Prefecture: a temple of the Shingon sect Toyoyama temple.), one of the three major Kokuzo-do in Japan. ..