Virtual Kanesawa 34 Kannon Pilgrimage #5 Entsu-an Temple

 

     As is often the case with a small town or a village in Japan, Machiya, Kanesawa Ward, Yokohama, had a small shrine with its place name, Machiya Shrine, and a Buddhist image.  The image was a small Arya Avalokitesvara statue, about 10 centimeters tall.  The shrine is still there, but the statue was moved to Tennen-ji Temple nearby in 1965.  But the  Arya Avalokitesvara statue in the temple today is about 30 centimeters tall.  Has it grown 4 millimeters a year?

Tennen-ji Temple

Address: 5-1 Machiyacho, Kanesawa Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0022

Phone: 045-701-7598