＃池口 恵観 ＃しあわせをつかむ心得－空海の開運学 ｲｹｸﾞﾁｴｶﾝ | Ekan Ikeguchi :9784831863591

**「日本人としての責任感を身につける」**

池口恵観（いけぐち えかん）は、日本の僧侶。高野山真言宗大僧正・伝灯大阿闍梨。単立烏帽子山最福寺法主。受賞歴や肩書き、関連キーワードは「百万枚護摩行」、「アウシュヴィッツ」、「南京大虐殺紀念館」など。

池口恵観は1936年生まれ。高野山大学文学部密教学科卒業後、俳優を目指して上京し、広告代理店勤務していたが、1961年に旧日本軍の元軍人たちによるクーデター未遂事件に関わり逮捕された。1967年、宗教法人「波切り不動最福寺」を設立し、1971年には学校法人最福学園を設立した。

彼は思想信条や職業を問わず、あらゆる人から相談を受け弟子に家田荘子、小池一夫、コンノケンイチなどがいる。世界各国で供養を行っており、2005年4月にはミャンマーのヤンゴンにある日本人墓地にNPO法人アジア地域戦没者慰霊協会の事業で戦没者慰霊碑群を建立した。

池口恵観は小泉純一郎や安倍晋三などの政界の大物政治家と交流があり、政界にも一定の影響力がある。また、彼は北朝鮮をたびたび訪問し、朝鮮労働党や北朝鮮外務省の高官だけでなくよど号ハイジャック犯とも会談している。

**Q&A**

Q：何をされた方ですか？

A：日本が歴史的に韓国と北朝鮮に対して大きな犠牲を抱かせ、韓半島の多くの国民が日本に恨みを持って亡くなったことに対し、素直に謝罪し慰霊したかった。

Q：有名な作品は何ですか？

A：「百万枚護摩行」で知られる池口恵観は、日本人が歴史的責任を認め、謝罪し慰霊することで相互友好関係が生じることを目指している。

English Summary

**"Learn a sense of responsibility as a Japanese person"**

Ekan Ikeguchi was a Japanese monk. Koyasan Shingon Sect Grand Priest, Dento Dai-Acharya. Head priest of Eboshiyama Saifukuji Temple. His awards, titles, and related keywords include "Hyakumanmai Goma-gyo," "Auschwitz," and "Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall."

Ekan Ikeguchi was born in 1936. After graduating from Koyasan University's Department of Esoteric Buddhism in the Faculty of Letters, he moved to Tokyo to become an actor and worked at an advertising agency, but in 1961 he was involved in a coup attempt by former Japanese military personnel and was arrested. In 1967, he established the religious corporation Nakiri Fudo Saifukuji, and in 1971 established the educational corporation Saifuku Gakuen.

He consults with all kinds of people, regardless of their ideology or profession, and his disciples include Shoko Ieda, Kazuo Koike, and Kenichi Konno. Memorial services are held in various countries around the world, and in April 2005, a group of monuments for the war dead was erected at the Japanese cemetery in Yangon, Myanmar, as part of a project by the NPO Asia Regional War Memorial Association.

Ekan Ikeguchi has a certain degree of influence in the political world, as he has interactions with big-name politicians such as Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe. He also frequently visits North Korea, meeting not only with high-level officials from the Workers' Party of Korea and North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but also with the Yodo hijackers.

**Q&A**

Q: What did you do?

I wanted to sincerely apologize and console the spirits of Japan, who historically caused great sacrifices to South and North Korea, and many people on the Korean peninsula who died because they held a grudge against Japan.

Q: What are your famous works?

Ekan Ikeguchi, known for his work ``Hyakumanmai Goma-gyo,'' aims to foster mutual friendship through Japanese people acknowledging their historical responsibility, apologizing, and consoling the spirits of the dead.

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