Virtual Miura 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #13 Tofuku-ji Temple

      It is unknown when Tofuku-ji Temple was founded.  When Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) moved to Edo in 1587, Hasegawa Nagatsuna (1543-1604) was appointed as an acting governor of the Miura Peninsula.  He converted the temple to the Soto Zen School.  Every magistrate that was newly appointed in Uraga first visited Tofuku-ji Temple.

     At the beginning of the Edo Period, a ship of Awajiya Jihei, a shipping agent at Konyacho, Nishi-Uraga, was hit by a storm.  When the ship was sinking, Avalokitesvara appeared at the bow, and rescued the ship, answering the crews’ prayers.  They later put the Arya Avalokitesvara statue in Tofuku-ji Temple.

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