Virtual Tama River 34 Kannon Pilgrimage #26 Shoko-in Temple

 

     Shoko-in Temple was founded by Priest Son’yu (?-1738), presumably in 1730’s.

     In 1728, Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684-1751) imposed a heavy tax increase on peasants, from 27.6 percent to 50.0 percent.  The farmers fell into financial hardship.  Some sought their solution in peasant uprisings, which occurred frequently in the 1730’s, and some others might have looked for tranquility in religions.  Or was the temple founded to pray for the next-world comfort of those executed for their uprisings?

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