Okada Magōemon (岡田孫右衛門) was a clerk at a saké store in Edo's Shinkawa neighbourhood (江戸/新川の酒問屋). For 7 years he suffered from unimaginably painful hemorrhoids, and in 1744 eventually died from complications😱😨

Whilst sick Okada often visited the Nichiren temple of Honshō-ji (本性寺) to pray. Feeling death approaching, he vowed to become a protector for those suffering from similar ailments.
He was thus enshrined at the temple as a guardian of 'below-the-waist illnesses'.

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