Virtual Yokohama City 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #18 Senzo-ji Temple

     Senzo-ji Temple started as a hermitage for retired priests of Tamon-in Temple, #19 temple of Yokohama City 33 Kannon Pilgrimage.  As Tamon-in Temple used to be the shrine temple of Honmoku Shrine, the hermitage came to take care of dead people and their funerals.

     By the end of the 16th century, Priest Choun (?-1597) made it a real temple.  In 1668, Priest Eiben moved the temple from Minowa Village to the present place.  In 1783, Yonekura Masaharu (1728-1786), the lord of the Kanazawa Domain in Musashi Province, presented the domain’s locker house to the temple as the main hall.  It is not known whether the removal and reconstruction was done before the great eruption of Mt. Asama or after.  The eruption killed 1624 people.  When Sano Masaharu (1757-1784) assassinated Tanuma Okitomo (1749-1784) in Edo Castle on March 24, 1784, Masaharu was placed on suspension in April but was forgiven in May.

Address: 12-16 Honmoku Motomachi, Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0822Phone: 045-623-7984