En no Ozunu/Ozuno/Otsuno was a Japanese ascetic and mystic, traditionally held to be the founder of Shugendō, the path of ascetic training practiced by the gyōja or yamabushi.
Statue of En no Gyōja, Kamakura period, c. 1300–1375, Kimbell Art Museum
Statue of En no Gyōja in Goryūsonryū-in [ja], Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Muromachi period portrait of En no Gyōja accompanied by two oni (demons) providing water and wood
The Ōmine Okugakemichi is a pilgrimage route on the Kii Peninsula in the Kansai region of Japan. It begins in Yanagi-no-shuku, a former ferry station on the Yoshino River in Nara prefecture, leads thr
Yamabushi on the Ōmine Okugakemichin
A signpost in Oku-Senbon, Yoshinoyama (Omine Okugando continues from the front to the left, and the right is a branch toward Hyakukaidake)
No.47 Zenkisan (route is up the slope, assisted by rope)