Old Edo 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #12 Denzu-in Temple

     In Autumn, 1415, Priest Shogei (1341-1420) opened a hermitage in Koishikawa, perhaps for retirement.  He named it Jukyo-ji.

     On August 28, 1602, Odai, the mother of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) died in Fushimi Castle, Kyoto.  He brought his mother’s body to Edo, cremated the body in Chiko-ji Temple at Otsuka, Edo.  He moved Jukyo-ji Temple to the present place, buried her ashes in the precincts, and named the temple Denzuin, after her posthumous Buddhist name.

     Odai’s Buddhist memorial tablet was, however, enshrined in Anraku-ji Temple in Mikawa Province, where her second husband, Hisamatsu Toshikatsu (1526-1587) had been buried.

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