Ena 33 Kannon Pilgrimage

     Ena 33 Kannon Pilgrimage was organized in 1758.  

     After the Meiji Restoration, Aoyama Kagemichi (1819-1891), a Shinto fundamentalist, executed Haibutsu Kishaku (literally "abolish Buddhism and destroy Shakamuni") in the Naegi domain, which had been ruled over by the Toyama Clan, in the Ena valley so fiercely that even the family temple of the Toyama Clan, Unrin-ji Temple, was abolished.  He, at least on the surface, successfully expunged Buddhism from an area, however narrow it may be.