Matarajin

He is a god who protects the Buddhist temple when have Jogyo Sanmai(event for chanting the Buddhism scriptures and walking around Buddha statue). The principal image of Jogyo-do is Amida Nyorai, but this god is enshrined in the back door where the secret method of demon rebellion is performed behind the temple. He is a mystery God that we don’t know about him in detail but on his left has a hand drum, and Sarugaku performers are revered as their guardian deities and thought that he has a close relationship with Noh performing arts. At the Tonomine, Tanzan Shrine in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, where Kan’ami and Zeami’s father and son worked with respect, has a white old man is enshrined as Matarajin in the back door of Jogyou-do (place to held Buddha’s events). The festival of this God, Kyoto Uzumasa-Kōryū-ji cattle festival is held in the 20th night Yomatsuri festival of Iwate Prefecture Hiraizumi-Mōtsū-ji is known. It is said that the festival is held dedicated to Matarajin at Jogyou-do.