天沼弁財天

Quietly on the corner of the park

A 5-minute walk from Funabashi Station, it is located in the northeast of the park. The temple of Benzaiten, the god of water, is surrounded by a pond. It used to be that spring water was coming out.

There are many Benzaiten (Benzaiten) in various places. Amanuma Benzaiten was said to have been enshrined around a swamp that was many times larger than the current area of ​​Amanuma Bentenike Park. It seems that the water source of the swamp was spring water, and the swamp was reduced by reclamation in the course of the times, and the swamp turned into a pond and the pond turned into a park. It turned out. Benzaiten and Benzaiten? It doesn't need to be distinguished because writing both means the same god, but it seems that Bensaiten is the original notation. As you know, Benzaiten (Benzaiten) is a bewitching figure playing Biwa at one point in the Seven Lucky Gods (Ebisu, Daikokuten, Bishamonten, Hotei Takashi, Shoujin, Fukurokuju, Benzaiten) It has been widely worshiped as a god of fukutoku and various performing arts. [Profit is money luck, arts and crafts, marriage, love fulfillment (marriage), academic fulfillment (valve tongue), standing career, luck, national protection, etc.] Bensaiten (Benzaiten) is the same as Daikokuten, and its roots are the ancient Indian water god, Sarasvati, and Saras means `` water ''. He seems to have become the god of music because of the association that he seems to be playing music. In addition, since she came to be identified with the word goddess "Virtu", she was reputed to be a goddess of linguistics, arts, and wisdom as a god who excelled in the word "valve". As you can see, the blessing of worship and the way of worship is "two bows two beats one bow".