Tsuji no Jizo

At the crossroad 100-meters eastwards from the Nakamura Kaikan Hall in Nakamura, Mano, a Jizo stone statue called “Tsuji no Jizo” is standing. If women who gave birth during their unlucky year which was the age of 33, they used to leave their baby in a bamboo winnowing basket in front of this Jizo statue to prevent their child from having misfortune. Later, they asked an acquaintance to bring back their child and to say “This is a heaven-sent child from Jizo” so that the child could avoid misfortune and grow up healthily.