dōjiseki 童子石

Keywords
Architecture
General Terms

Lit. guardian boy's stones. Two symbolic garden stones (see *yakuishi 役石) representing boy deities, *Kongara Dōji 矜羯羅童子 and *Seitaka Dōji 制た迦童子, which stand either side of a stone representing the fierce deity *Fudō Myōō 不動明王 (fudōseki 不動石). This is one arrangement of Buddhist triad stones, *sanzon iwagumi 三尊石組.