Virtual Yokohama City 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #7 Toko-ji Temple

      Toko-ji Temple’s main deity is the Bhaisajyaguru statue, which was taken over from Tobe Sugiyama Shrine after the Gods and Buddhas Separation Order in 1868.  Tobe Sugiyama Shrine is at 1 Chome-13-1 Central, Nishi Ward, Yokohama, today, and the temple used to be around there since the middle of the 16th century until the relocation on October 13, 1902.  The shrine had been founded in 652, and is one of the candidates for the original Sugiyama Shrine.  The god in the shrine used to be recognized as the local manifestation of Bhaisajyaguru.  However, #12 Ganjo-ji Temple used to be a shrine temple of Tobe Sugiyama Shrine, so Toko-ji Temple couldn’t.  Why the temple inherited the manifestation statue from the shrine is unknown and unknowable today, as the temple was reduced to ashes along with written records due to the Bombing of Yokohama on May 29, 1945. 

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