Virtual Old Awa 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #6 Hase-dera Temple

 

     Emperor Toyosakurahiko (701-756) built Hase-dera Temple in Nara in 727.  He also built new Hase-dera Temples in other provinces.  Hase-dera Temple in Kamakura was built in 736.  Tradition has it that Gyoki (668-749) carved 2 statues of Ekadasamukha, who has 11 faces, for Hase-dera Temple in Kamakura.  One of the two was brought here by Ashikaga Takauji (1305-1358), and Ashikaga Yoshimochi (1386-1428) built another Hase-dera Temple here.

     Hase-dera Temple is located on a hillside overlooking the Katsuyama Fishing Harbor.  Because of the location, the temple was once washed away by the flood caused by the 1703 Genroku Earthquake.

     It was rebuilt in 1728, but was burned down in fire in 1830.

     It was rebuilt in 1844, but was destroyed in a typhoon in 1871.  The present temple was rebuilt in 1881.  How tough the temple is!

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