Datsueba
deity underworld Buddhist single tradition · 1
Datsueba (奪衣婆; lit. "old woman who strips clothes") is often depicted sitting by the Sanzu River in literary, visual, and religious depictions of the Buddhist underworld. Throughout these depictions, Datsueba is broadly imagined and illustrated as an old, frightening ogress who takes the clothes from the deceased as they cross the Sanzu River.
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- co occurs with
- Shōjuin Datsueba
- consort of
- Ken’e-ō
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wikipedia (1)
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“Rokudō jūō zu are sets of paintings that began to be produced during the thirteenth century in Japan that depict motifs of Ten Kings and the Six Realms. Datsueba appears in some of these hanging painted scrolls in a similar manner to how she was described in the Jizō jūō kyō”
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