Daruma (Bodhidharma) - Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in China and...
Hōsō Kami 疱瘡神 (or hōsōgami) is the Japanese god of smallpox, who first appears in the Nikon Shoki (日本書紀, approx. 720 AD). The disease, however, reached Japan much earlier, around the time of Buddhism’s i