Virtual Ika 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #24 Kosho-an Temple

     Kosho-an Temple started as a branch temple of TendaiSect Buddhism.  Priest Zencho was the founder of Zencho-ji Temple, and his successor revived Kosho-an Temple.

     The present main deity, the statue of Ekadasamukha, who has 11 faces, used to belong to Anyo-ji Temple, which used to be a shrine temple of Kusaoka Shrine.  After 1868, in accordance with the Gods and Buddhas Separation Order by the new Meiji government, the statue was moved to Entsu-an Temple first.  They found the temple too cramped, and moved it to Kosho-an Temple.

The Ekadasamukha statue is 110 centimeters tall with the wooden core inside and lacquered decorations outside.