Stone Begging Bowl of Buddha

The was 's stone begging bowl. In the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, it was believed to be located in ; however, under the instruction to locate it from Princess Kaguya, Kagura tracked it down to a village in Japan. The bowl signifies the and was represented by the color purple.

Kagura manipulated a swarm of demons to attack the village which and retrieve the bowl, but they were unsuccessful. She later confronted the miko Kikyō, who had visited the village after it was attacked and gained possession of the bowl from a dying young girl. To Kagura's surprise, Kikyō surrendered the bowl without a fight, claiming that she had no need of it.

In truth, Kikyō, for reasons similar to Naraku with the Swallow's Cowrie Shell, wanted to draw out Princess Kaguya. Unlike Naraku's reasoning, Kikyō wanted to draw Kaguya out so that she could be destroyed by the half-demon Inuyasha.

Verse
When it was cast into Lake Kawaguchi, Kanna recited these words:

English= I had hoped to find the gleam of the fallen dew but nothing can I see, why did you go yonder to Mount Ogura? Nihongo= 私は、あなたがマウント小倉に向こうへ行った理由私は、見ることができる落ちた露が、何の煌きを見つけることを望んでいましたか？ Rōmaji= Watashi wa, anata ga maunto Ogura ni mukō e itta riyū watashi wa, miru koto ga dekiru ochita Ro ga, nani no kirameki o mitsukeru koto o nozonde imashita ka?

Trivia

 * The Stone Begging Bowl of Buddha is based on the one in.