(d) "Midway up the ropeway * * * I rushed inside the temple. There, with the help of a translator, I spoke with Ogawa Yusho, the resident monk, who was born in the temple and is now raising his family there. He'd grown up hearing the legend of Dōchi Shōnin, a priest who came to this very spot in the eighth century and prayed for 1,000 days for the health of the people here — and on the 1,000th day, an onsen sprung from the ground. It is said to be Mandara-yu, the oldest of the seven on Kinosaki's onsen circuit. Before modern medicine, ill people would trek to Onsenji temple, pray to the spirit of Dochi Shonin, and then bathe, naked, with a wooden ladle in the hot springs. Once there, the ritual is to strip down, shower while sitting and then soak in those healing waters, surrounded by bodies of all shapes and sizes. (Onsen are divided into all-male and all-female sides.)
(i) "OGAWA Yushō, the resident monk, who was born in the temple and is now raising his family there"
(A) "温泉寺住職 小川祐章"
(B) Buddhist monasticism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_monasticism
("Monastics in Japan are particularly exceptional in the Buddhist tradition because the monks and nuns can marry after receiving their higher ordination. This idea is said to be introduced by Saichō [最澄 (767 – 822)], the founder of the Tendai school [天台宗], who preferred ordaining monks under the Bodhisattva vows rather than the traditional Vinaya [Sanskrit; 佛教戒律]. There had long been many instances of Jōdo Shinshū [浄土真宗] priests and priestesses marrying, influenced by the sect's founder Shinran [親鸞 (1173 – 1263), who is said to marry and re-marry and founded 浄土真宗 in 1247, after his master monk Hōnen 法然 founded 浄土宗 in 1175], but it was not predominant until a government Nikujiku Saitai Law (肉食妻帯) was passed during the Meiji Restoration that monks or priests of any Buddhist sect are free to seek wives. This practice influenced Korea and Taiwan.[39] A nun in Taiwan gave birth.[40] Some Korean monks live with wives in their monasteries. Monks of some Chinese lay Buddhist sects may marry, such as in historical Yunnan, Lingnan 岭南 and Taiwan") (footnotes omitted)
To be frank, I have not heard of a Buddhist monk or nun being able to marry, including Tibetan ones, maybe except one branch).
(ii) Mandara-yu まんだら湯
remains an onsen hotel with that name.
Mandara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandara
(may refer to "Mandara or Mandala, Hindu and Buddhist religious objects")
I have not seen "Mandara" but then again, Japanese transliteration has no letter L, only R,
(iii) Japanese-English dictionary:
* 肉食妻帯 【にくじきさいたい】 (n,v): "meat and matrimony (Buddhism); Buddhist priest eating meat dishes and being married"
* sa-i-ta-i 妻帯 【さいたい】 (n,v): "marriage; marry"
(e) "His name was Sushi Tiger. He was 76 * * * I was the only person in his narrow restaurant, breaking a cardinal travelers' rule to follow crowds to the best food. But I'd already been wandering the streets of Kanazawa 金沢[市], the capital city of the Ishikawa Prefecture 石川県 [to the east of 兵庫県, separated by two prefectures], for 20 minutes in search of sushi and a kind young man had brought me here, so who was I to mess with fate? Sushi Tiger, who also goes by Takashi, wrapped a twisted white bandana around his forehead as he prepared my dinner. He spoke little English and I spoke almost no Japanese * * * I was glad to be his only customer. * * * Kawai, another Kanazawa sushi master at Takasakiya Sushi [高崎屋(金沢市)]"
The restaurant name is 寿し寅, located 金沢駅前. 寿し寅 is different from 寿し虎 or すし寅, two other sushi restaurants of the same pronunciation (sushi-tora) that are both based in City of Osaka.
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