Bonji menuki identification

[Lorenzo]

Hi all.

 

Would you please help me identify this two bonji?

 

 

 

The left one seems to me

Fudou Myou Ou

ふどうみょうおう

不動明王

 

 

 

while the second one is mysterious. I may have mistaken also the first.

 

Thank you everybody in advance.

 

[DirkO]

I think you're right with the first one :

 

http://www.mandalar.com/DisplayJ/_Year/10Rooster.html

 

Could the 2nd one be Dai'nichi Nyo'rai ?

 

http://www.mandalar.com/DisplayJ/_Year/09Monkey.html

[Lorenzo]

Thank you Dirk; what bother me on the second one is that the rightmost sign goes all over the top of the design.. :?

[DirkO]

Yes that bothered me a bit as well, but seeing your bonji look to be italic and a bit stylized, I thought them to be a match.

I'm at work at the moment, but if I'm not mistaken, in the beginning of Hawleys, there's also a list of bonji...

[sanjuro]

Sword and Same' by Arai Hakuseki and Joly gives a few bonji as well. From that book I make out the first one as Kanman Fudo and the second as Dai Nichi. This is not my area of expertise however and I could be VERY wrong. :?