Tenjin

Akibagongen

Born in 799 the name is Kanekuni, he became a priest when he was a little child. He lived in a temple in Zaoo-do in Tochio-city in Niigata-prefecture. He was a mountaineering ascetic believing Iizuna Gongen. He was commonly called Sanjaku-bou(small monk) because he was small. When he attained Fudou Zanmai Hou he got manifested by a black bird with golden wings holding a sword and a rope in the flame of fire. It is said that he went down to Akiba Yama in Shizuoka-prefecture riding on a white fox for himself. He became the god for calming fire