Virtual Kanesawa 34 Kannon Pilgrimage #10 Koden-ji Temple

     Koden-ji Temple was founded in 1573.

     Nagano Rokuemon was a man of great strength.  In Shirahama, when he was on his travels in Awa Province. he accidentally cut off the head of an Amitabha statue.  He brought it home, and built a hermitage to enshrine it.  One day, he found a headless Amitabha statue in Nikaido, Kamakura, brought it back, and combined the two.

     Koden-ji Temple used not to be a member temple of Kanesawa 34 Kannon Pilgrimage.  The original #10 temple used to be Tainei-ji Temple, which was removed from Oppama to Katabuki due to the enlargement of the Oppama Airfield in 1943.  The temple, however, seemed to have lost its Avalokitesvara statue sometime between 1775 and 1931, when Koden-ji Temple was listed as #10with its Arya Avalokitesvara statue.

 

Address: 3 Chome-2-11 Mutsuura, Kanesawa Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0031

Tainei-ji Temple

Address: 61−5 Katabuki, Kanesawa Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0055

Phone: 045-781-0908