Kanazawa 33 Kannon Pilgrimage

     The history of Kanazawa 33 Kannon Pilgrimage is unknown.

Legend has it that #25 Kannon-in Temple was founded by Imohori Togoro in the middle of the 5th century.   He dug (horu) potatoes (imo) and found gold dust.  He became rich, and asked Gyoki (668-749) to send him the timber from the same tree that provided the timber for the Kannon statue in Hase-dera Temple in Yamato Province.  He built a temple, which was burned down later, and, in 1601, it was moved to the location today by Maeda Toshinaga (1562-1614), the first lord of the Kaga Domain in the Edo Period.