飛田 慈母観音 - Tobita Jibo Kannon
飛田 慈母観音は、大阪市西成区の山王3丁目にある慰霊碑と観音像。
飛田遊廓の発祥の地であり、かつては日本最大級の遊廓として栄えた場所です。
現在は料亭街として営業していますが、昔の雰囲気を残しています。
慰霊碑に詩刻まれた詩
慈母観音像のそばには
「をん あるりきや そわか（3回以上）」と書かれてあります。
これは「おん あろりきゃ そわか」と読み、観音経の一節である「南無阿弥陀仏」と同じ意味です。
飛田遊廓は戦災を免れた唯一の廓であり、かつては巨大なコンクリート壁に囲まれていました。これは往年の楼主が娼妓の逃亡を防ぐために作ったものでしたが、関東大震災で吉原の娼妓が集団焼死したことを受けて、人道問題として大阪市会で議論され、門を開けることになりました。
Tobita Jibo Kannon is a memorial monument and a statue of Kannon, the goddess of mercy, located in Sanno 3-chome, Nishinari-ku, Osaka City.
This is the birthplace of Tobita Yūkaku, which used to be one of the largest red-light districts in Japan. Nowadays, it operates as a restaurant district, but it still retains the atmosphere of the past.
The memorial monument “Compassion and Coexistence” was built to mourn the souls of those who worked and lived in Tobita Yūkaku and died without being able to leave the brothel. It used to be near a temple in Koyasan as a muenbotoke, a Buddha statue for those without relatives, but it became missing after a few years. Later, the Tobita Shinchi Restaurant Association rebuilt it and relocated it to its current location in 2002.
Tobita Yūkaku was built in 1916 on a lowland northwest of Abeno Cemetery, after a fire broke out in Minami in 1912, destroying the Namba Shinchi Otobe Yūkaku. In the Taisho era, there were more than 100 brothels, and in the early Showa era, it became one of the largest red-light districts in Japan with over 200 brothels. After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law in 1958, it became a restaurant district called “Tobita Shinchi Restaurant Association”, but it still retains the atmosphere of before the conversion. The women who work there are called “nakai”, and the customers are called “okyakusama”.
Tobita Yūkaku is the only red-light district that escaped the war damage, and it used to be surrounded by a huge concrete wall. This was made by the old brothel owners to prevent the prostitutes from escaping, but after the Great Kanto Earthquake, when the Yoshiwara prostitutes died in a mass fire, it was discussed as a humanitarian issue at the Osaka City Council, and they decided to open the gates.
飛田遊廓の発祥の地であり、かつては日本最大級の遊廓として栄えた場所です。
現在は料亭街として営業していますが、昔の雰囲気を残しています。
慰霊碑「慈悲共生」
慰霊碑「慈悲共生」は、飛田遊廓で働き住んでいた人たちが遊郭の外に出られないまま亡くなった霊を弔うために建てられました。以前は高野山のお寺付近に無縁仏としてあったものの、数年経ったら所在不明となったとのことです。その後、飛田新地料理組合が再建し、2002年に現在の場所に移設されました。慰霊碑
慰霊碑に詩刻まれた詩
安らかに来りて眠れ
この飛田（さと）に
有縁無縁の
浄刹創らむ
桝谷季子作
慈母観音像
遊女たちの霊を供養するために建てられた観音像は母子像であり、子供を抱く母親の姿をしています。遊女たちは子供を持つことができなかったり、持っても育てることができなかったりしたため、この観音像に寄り添って心の安らぎを求めたと言われています。慈母観音像のそばには
「をん あるりきや そわか（3回以上）」と書かれてあります。
これは「おん あろりきゃ そわか」と読み、観音経の一節である「南無阿弥陀仏」と同じ意味です。
飛田遊廓の歴史
飛田遊廓は、1912年に難波新地乙部遊廓が全焼するミナミの大火が発生したことをきっかけに、1916年に阿倍野墓地北西の低地に築かれました。大正時代には100軒あまりの妓楼が並び、昭和初期には200軒を超える日本最大級の遊廓となりました。1958年の売春防止法施行以後は料亭街『飛田新地料理組合』となりましたが、現在も転向以前の雰囲気を残しています。働いている女性は「仲居」と呼ばれ、客は「お客様」と呼ばれます。飛田遊廓は戦災を免れた唯一の廓であり、かつては巨大なコンクリート壁に囲まれていました。これは往年の楼主が娼妓の逃亡を防ぐために作ったものでしたが、関東大震災で吉原の娼妓が集団焼死したことを受けて、人道問題として大阪市会で議論され、門を開けることになりました。
Tobita Jibo Kannon is a memorial monument and a statue of Kannon, the goddess of mercy, located in Sanno 3-chome, Nishinari-ku, Osaka City.
This is the birthplace of Tobita Yūkaku, which used to be one of the largest red-light districts in Japan. Nowadays, it operates as a restaurant district, but it still retains the atmosphere of the past.
The memorial monument “Compassion and Coexistence” was built to mourn the souls of those who worked and lived in Tobita Yūkaku and died without being able to leave the brothel. It used to be near a temple in Koyasan as a muenbotoke, a Buddha statue for those without relatives, but it became missing after a few years. Later, the Tobita Shinchi Restaurant Association rebuilt it and relocated it to its current location in 2002.
Tobita Yūkaku was built in 1916 on a lowland northwest of Abeno Cemetery, after a fire broke out in Minami in 1912, destroying the Namba Shinchi Otobe Yūkaku. In the Taisho era, there were more than 100 brothels, and in the early Showa era, it became one of the largest red-light districts in Japan with over 200 brothels. After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law in 1958, it became a restaurant district called “Tobita Shinchi Restaurant Association”, but it still retains the atmosphere of before the conversion. The women who work there are called “nakai”, and the customers are called “okyakusama”.
Tobita Yūkaku is the only red-light district that escaped the war damage, and it used to be surrounded by a huge concrete wall. This was made by the old brothel owners to prevent the prostitutes from escaping, but after the Great Kanto Earthquake, when the Yoshiwara prostitutes died in a mass fire, it was discussed as a humanitarian issue at the Osaka City Council, and they decided to open the gates.
飛田 慈母観音 - Tobita Jibo Kannon
