Koushin Pagodas today (3)

Now due to the enthusiasm of such people as individual followers and Koushin forum people, Koushin pagodas (庚申塔) were built.
These Koushin pagodas are placed on slightly elevated plateaus and overlook roadsides, communities or fields and are thought to worship things such as: good harvest, good health and to expel epidemics in the communities that they are built in.
On the Kunisaki peninsula in Oita prefecture in north-eastern Kyushu there are quite a number of these Koushin pagodas remaining. It looks as though that the Kunisaki peninsula could be one such area with a relatively high distribution density compared with the rest of the country.
Kunisaki peninsula consists of 10 (2005/12) municipalities: Bungo-Takada (豊後高田市), Matama(真玉町), Kakaji(香々地町), Kunimi(国見町), Himeshima(姫島村), Kunisaki(国東町), Kitsuki(杵築市), Aki(安岐町), Musashi(武蔵町), and Ota(大田村). In this entire area it is estimated that there are approximately 1000 of these Koushin pagodas.