Virtual Miura 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #16 Tokaku-ji Temple

      Tokaku-ji Temple was founded by Priest Nichidai on June 28, 1584.  It used to be located a little deeper along the galley, and was removed to the present place in 1679.  The present main and residential buildings were built then.

     The Kannon-do building was removed from Senju-in Temple on the Kyozuka Hill in 1930.  The temple had been the shrine temple of Mitaki Shrine nearby and was abolished due to the the Gods and Buddhas Separation Order by the Meiji Restoration Government in 1868.

     Takiguchi Morisada visited Jingo-ji Temple in Mt. Takao.  He got a foundling on his way back, and named him Sutehira.  “Sute" literally means to get deserted.  Sutehira grew up to be arrogant, and was going to be punished to death by Morisada.  Priest Kaiun begged Morisada for Sutehira’s life.

     Morisada was a guest staff of the Miura Clan, and Sutehira himself developed the Kumura area and became the chief of the village.

When Sutehira was developing the area, it was troubled with the water shortage.  Legend has it that when Sutehira rooted up an ivy twinned around an old cherry tree, clean clear water welled out.  In 1180’s, Sutehira carved the image of Morisada out of the old cherry tree, and founded Mitaki Shrine to enshrine it.

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