Virtual Old Awa 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #2 Niimi-do Temple

      Niimi-do Temple used to be located halfway up Aokine Hill.  In 1967, the temple was moved to the present place, the site of Shuman-in Temple, which had been collapsed by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.

     In the old site halfway up the hill, there still stand the stone statue of Ksitigarbha and a stone tablet inscribed with a haiku poem of Matsuo Basho (1644-1694):

In the spring

Plum trees along Kagami Bay

Stand unseen.

     It is unknown when the temple was founded, but a Japanese pagoda which originally contained a dharani sutra tells that it was built in 1768.

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