A Jizō statue is enshrined at the entrance to the village.
A small Jizō statue stands by the roadside.
I prayed to Jizō for my child's safety.
Every morning I go and pray at the neighborhood Jizō statue.
I offered flowers to the Jizō statue next to the grave.
Honorific counter for Buddhist images and deities.
For statues, figures, dolls, and humanoid robots.
the Six Ksitigarbhas
Jizō hall; temple hall with a Jizō image
gentle, round face; cheerful face
stone Jizō statue · taciturn person; person uninterested in romance
Ksitigarbha as guardian of childbirth
Ksitigarbha statue for miscarried or aborted fetuses
Standard kanji spelling for Jizō, the bodhisattva.
From the Chinese translation of the Sanskrit name Kṣitigarbha, meaning 'earth womb' or 'earth store'. The Japanese reading じぞう is the on'yomi of the characters 地 (earth) and 蔵 (store).