Usage patterns 地じ 蔵ぞう を 祀まつ る to enshrine/worship a Jizō statue
A Jizō statue is enshrined at the entrance to the village.
地じ 蔵ぞう にお 参まい りする to visit and pray at a Jizō statue
Every morning I go and pray at the neighborhood Jizō statue.
地じ 蔵ぞう に 花はな を 供そな える to offer flowers to a Jizō statue
I offered flowers to the Jizō statue next to the grave.
Related words 地蔵菩薩 is the full, formal Buddhist name of the bodhisattva, while 地蔵 is the common, everyday abbreviation used in speech and for roadside statues.
Counted with Honorific counter for Buddhist images and deities.
For statues, figures, dolls, and humanoid robots.
Word family 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
Written forms 地じ 蔵ぞう Usage 95%
Standard kanji spelling for Jizō, the bodhisattva.
じぞう Usage 5%
Etymology 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).
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