Chapter 11 BAKé-JIZ

The figure of the Bodhi-sattva Jiz?, the savior of children's ghosts, is one of the most beautiful and humane in Japanese Buddhism. Statues of this divinity may be seen in almost every village and by every roadside. But some statues of Jiz? are said to do uncanny things-such as to walk about at night in various disguises. A statue of this kind is c