Kawachi Province 33 Kannon Pilgrimage

     Kawachi Province 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, which was organized by the beginning of Meiji Era, is supposed to have been a prototype of the reorganized version of Kawachi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, which was organized by 1930’s.  In the course of the transformation from Kawachi Province 33 Kannon Pilgrimage to (New) Kawachi 33 Kannon pilgrimage, some member temples of Kawachi Province 33 Kannon Pilgrimage were replaced by new member temples, and the distribution of new member temples narrowed into Central Kawachi Province.  Not all the replaced temples had been abolished. That leaves the reason for their replacement mysterious.

  There is another mystery that Kannon temples in the northern part of Kawachi Province were organized into Northern Kawachi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage in 1845, presumably earlier than the birth of Kawachi Province 33 Kannon Pilgrimage.  Did the organization of Northern Kawachi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage stimulated Central and Southern Kawachi temples to form their own?