March 15, 2000. "Bounded Jizo" Katsushika-ku, Tokyo. Note: Jizo, a stone Buddhist image, is the guardian deity of travelers, children, and pregnant women. The statues are often depicted holding a staff called shakuji in the right hand and a gem in the left, they are found everywhere in Japan but principally along roadsides. This is the bounded jizo at Nanzoin in Narihira Santosen Temple built 600 years ago in Katsushika, Tokyo, which is famous for "Ookaechizen", a magistrate in Japan's feudal period. They say it can grant various wishes. It locates on the way back to Kanamachi Station on Tokiwa line after walking around the Mizumoto park (the biggest one in Tokyo) viewing Katsushika Taishakuten (famous for the movie "Futen no Tora san") and Edo River bank.

	When people make wishes, they bound the jizo with a straw rope sold by 100 yen, then come to unbind it when their wishes have come true.		Nanzoin in Narihira Santosen Temple
	Inside the Nanzoin		The sign at the entrance of Nanzoin