{"id":5247,"date":"2019-08-13T21:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T00:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2019-08-13T21:26:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T00:26:15","slug":"thousand-armed-kannon-and-princess-otohime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/teachings\/curiosities\/thousand-armed-kannon-and-princess-otohime\/","title":{"rendered":"THOUSAND-ARMED KANNON AND PRINCESS OTOHIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong> I would like to ask about the relationship between the Thousand-Armed Kannon and Princess Otohime and about their relationship to our physical world.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong> Their relationship is as with uncle and niece by marriage. Princess Otohime is the wife of Susano no Mikoto, the younger brother of Amaterasu \u00d4kami.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Princess Otohime got hold of all of the world\u2019s riches and kept the treasure in the Dragon Palace. The Chinese ideogram for which the \u201coto\u201d of Otohime is written is a pictorial depiction of the shape of a snake, so she is the Snake Princess. The \u201coto\u201d of the ideogram for \u201csnake\u201d has the same vibration as the \u201coto\u201d for \u201csound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the Chinese ideogram for \u201csu\u201d as in the word Sushin, God of Su, is written in freestyle with a brush, it can look like the ideogram for \u201cstanding\u201d and when the ideogram for \u201cstanding\u201d is put on top of the ideogram for \u201cday\u201d or \u201csun\u201d, it becomes the ideogram for \u201csound,\u201d or in Japanese, \u201coto\u201d. The \u201coto\u201d of the ideogram for \u201csound\u201d has the same vibration as the \u201coto\u201d of the ideogram for \u201csnake.\u201d Princess Otohime stays in her residence and the world is dark. The Chinese ideogram for \u201cdarkness\u201d is the ideogram for \u201csound or \u201coto\u201d within the ideogram for gate, a traditional metaphor for \u201chome.\u201d When the ideogram for \u201csound\u201d or \u201coto\u201d is put beside the ideogram \u201csound\u201d or \u201coto,\u201d it forms the ideogram for \u201cdark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That which watches and protects the darkened world of Princess Otohime is Kanzeon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">K\u00f4h\u00f4 (Bulletin of the K\u00f4h\u00f4 Society), Issue 2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">July 1949<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Translated by cynndd<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jinsai.org%2Fen%2Fteachings%curiosities%thousand-armed-kannon-and-princess-otohime\/%2F &#038;width=450&#038;layout=standard&#038;action=like&#038;size=large&#038;show_faces=true&#038;share=true&#038;height=80&#038;appId=171964893011161\" width=\"450\" height=\"80\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v3.3&#038;appId=171964893011161&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\" http:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/teachings\/curiosities\/thousand-armed-kannon-and-princess-otohime\/\" data-width=\"\" data-numposts=\"100\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I would like to ask about the relationship between the Thousand-Armed Kannon and Princess Otohime and about their relationship to our physical world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-curiosities","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-icon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}