Virtual Fushimi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #23 Goshin-ji Temple

     Goshin-ji Temple was founded in 1575, when the Battle of Nagashino broke out between the troops of Takeda Katsuyori (1546-1582) and those of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) & Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), and when the Battle of Shimanto River broke out between the troops of Ichijo Kanesada (1543-1585) and those of Chosokabe Motochika (1539-1599).  Katsuyori and Kanesada represented the conservatives, or superiors, and Ieyasu, Nobunaga, and Motochika represented inferiors, who overpowered the superiors.  Japan was plunging into the second half of the Warring States Period.  Goshin-ji Temple witnessed the upside-down.

     The child is father of the man.

     Ieyasu made the ruler of Japan at last in 1603, and started the Tokugawa Shogunate.  2 centuries and a half later, in 1868, the Battle of Toba-Fushimi broke out, and the shogunate was defeated by inferiors, the Satuma and Choshu Domains.  The temple witnessed another upside-down, and 64 of the shogunate war dead were buried in the temple.