{"id":241,"date":"2015-11-30T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T00:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/wordpress_eng\/?p=241"},"modified":"2020-01-31T11:56:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T02:56:03","slug":"hijiri-monks-who-supported-the-management-of-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHijiri\u201d: monks who supported the management of documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monks who were assigned to protect the statue of Kukai (\u7a7a\u6d77) at Sai-in Mieido (\u897f\u9662\u5fa1\u5f71\u5802) were called hijiri (\u8056). They were also called sanshonin (\u4e09\u8056\u4eba, lit. three saints) as the quota of hijiri was three. The position of hijiri is believed to have been established when the statue of Kukai was enshrined in Sai-in Kyozo (\u897f\u9662\u7d4c\u8535, Sai-in Library) in 1233.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although documents of various monastic organizations, including Nijuikku-kata (\u5eff\u4e00\u53e3\u65b9) and Chinjuhachimangu-kata (\u93ae\u5b88\u516b\u5e61\u5bae\u65b9), were housed in the Sai-in Library situated inside Mieido, monks of these organizations were not allowed to freely enter the library. Only the hijiri monks were allowed to enter. The retrieval and return of documents from and to the library were controlled by the hijiri monks, similar to how librarians today retrieve books from stacks for you.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2458px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/contents\/detail.php?id=2811\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/contents\/images\/009\/02194\/img\/0001\/100_0.jpg\" alt=\"Sanshonin Moshijo web page\" width=\"2458\" height=\"1390\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Item (46) of Box-ri, \u201cSanshonin Moshijo,\u201d July 1352<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Item (46) of Box-ri is a petition in which hijiri monks claim a share of rice paid as tax (referred to as \u201cjitogata-kumai of Tara-sho, Wakasa Province\u201d). Hijiri monks state that they are entitled to receive the tax with the approval of every monk due to their significant authority of controlling document retrieval and return. They also state that they give top priority to the management of the library of Mieido over all other duties, responding to a request to retrieve documents more quickly.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/contents\/detail.php?id=15404\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/contents\/images\/042\/10556\/img\/0001\/100_0.jpg\" alt=\"Kanitsu Mieido Shonin-shiki Jo-jo Ukebumi web page\" width=\"2422\" height=\"1390\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Item (29) of Box-shi, \u201cKanitsu Mieido Shonin-shiki Jo-jo Ukebumi,\u201d June 11, 1381<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The document above is ukebumi (\u8acb\u6587\u3001an oath) written by Kanitsu (\u89b3\u4e00), who had been newly appointed hijiri. He pledges that he will open and close Mieido and retrieve and return documents in accordance with the rules, that he will always follow shumei (\u8846\u547d\u3001kuso monk instructions), and that he will obediently step down from his position if he breaks this oath. To become a hijiri monk, a candidate was required to be recommended by two other hijiri monks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monks who were assigned to protect the statue of Kukai (\u7a7a\u6d77) at Sai-in Mieido (\u897f\u9662\u5fa1\u5f71\u5802) were called hijiri (\u8056). They were also called sanshonin (\u4e09\u8056\u4eba, lit. three saints) as the quota of hijiri was three. The position of hijiri is believed to have been established when the statue of Kukai was enshrined in Sai-in Kyozo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/?p=241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cHijiri\u201d: monks who supported the management of documents<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyakugo.pref.kyoto.lg.jp\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}