Virtual Miura 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #28 Senpuku-ji Temple

     Senpuku-ji Temple has a Kannon-do building 200 meters out of the precincts.  The statue of Ekadasamukha, who has 11 faces, is enshrined in it.

     The statue used to be the main deity of Kanmyo-ji Temple nearby, which has been abolished.

     The statue was ordered by Kasuya Kiyotsugu, who was given Sashima and Kikuna in the Miura Peninsula as his fiefs by Hojo Ujiyasu (1515-1571), and was carved by Okura Nagamori, a sculptor of Buddhist images, in 1550.  Nagamori also carved Vajrapani statues for En’yu-ji Temple, Tokyo, in 1559.

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