A Walk Through Okunoin, Mount Koya, Wakayama, Japan

IN THE MOST POPULAR JAPANESE CEMETERY ALONG A DRIVEWAY OF RUSTLING WOODS, ENCOUNTERS WITH SOULS OF LONG AGO SURPRISE THOSE WHO ARE NOT CAREFUL.

According to the superstition of the Shingon Buddhist school, there are no dead in Okunoin, but only waiting spirits. As the story is told, one day Kukai (774-835), better known in Japan under the name of Kobo Daishi, the founder of the religious community of Mount Koya, came out of meditation upon the arrival of Miroku, the Buddha of the future.

So all the souls in transit resting in the graves or of whom the hair or ashes had been placed by their loved ones in front of the Kukai Mausoleum, also rose up. Pending the advent of this apocalyptic prophecy, the number of graves in Okunoin continues to increase and already counts more than two hundred thousand and is the largest cemetery in the archipelago.

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