Virtual Old Kamakura 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #16 Eirin-ji Temple

 

     Eirin-ji Temple was founded by Priest Ryoyu, who died on June 13, 1615.

     In 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) destroyed the Later Hojo Clan, and virtually unified Japan.

     Between 1596 and 1615, the Japanese Archipelago had had many big and even great earthquakes: on September 1, 1596, in Iyo Province, on 4 in the same month in Bungo Province, and on 5 around Kyoto, on February 3, 1605.  A great tsunami hit the large Pacific coast, on September 27, 1611.  Another great earthquake in Aizu Province on September, 1611.  Another great tsunami hit the Pacific coast of the northeastern part of Honshu Island on December 2, 1611.  On October 25, 1614, another great earthquake shook many provinces between Aizu in the northeastern part of Honshu Island and Iyo in shikoku Island.

     On May 8, 1615, Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) destroyed the Toyotomi Clan.

     Ryoyu might have established Eirin-ji Temple on one of those days, and died about a year before Ieyasu’s death.

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