Old Edo 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #27 Doo-ji Temple

      Priest Munen built a hermitage in 1600, when the Battle of Sekigahara broke out between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa Clans, in which the latter overpowered the former. Accordingly, the Toyotomi Clan went down to one of the great lords from the ruler of Japan.  Munen means regret or mortification, which caused the priest to retreat into the priesthood.  What did he regret or was mortified with?

The hermitage was turned into a real temple in 1660’s, when the family register was accomplished by forcing every family to belong to a Buddhist temple, which of course increased the number of temples.

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