Virtual Old Awa 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #22 Kanshu-in Temple

     

     Awa Province was located at the southern tip of the Boso Peninsula, and had mountains and seas with a few flatlands.  Mountain people regarded some mountains holy.  Later, their mountain worship was amalgamated with a newly imported worship, the belief in Avalokitesvar, and the amalgamation was often related with Gyoki (668-749), sometimes even without grounds.

     On Mt. Ryogai, a statue of Sahasrabhuja, who has 1,000 arms, was installed.  The statue came to be believed to have carved by Gyoki, and was enshrined in a hermitage at the top of the mountain.  The temple was named Kanshu-in at the turn of the 18th century, and moved to the present place by Priest Eiga in 1752.

Kanshu-in Temple has enshrined the Sahasrabhuja statue.

Address: 35 Kamihori, Minamiboso, Chiba 294-0825

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