Virtual Tama River 34 Kannon Pilgrimage #32 Gensho-ji Temple

     Gensho-ji Temple was founded by Nanjusen (?-1543) and was financially supported by Ota Morihisa (?-1579), who was an an illegitimate child of Ota Suketada (?-1479).

     Ota Suketada (?-1479) was a younger brother of Dokan (1432-1486), who built Edo Castle.  When Suketada was staying in Ishihara Village, he got a village woman pregnant.  She gave birth to a boy, and he called himself Ota Morihisa.  Oral tradition says that he died in 1579 at the age of 120.  That’s unbelievable.  It seems his offsprings called themselves Ota Morihisa for a couple of generations.  When Mamiya Kotonobu (1777-1841) was compiling the New Chronography on Musashi Province  at the beginning of the 19th century, Morihisa’s descendant, Zenemon, was the head of the village.  This or that Ota Morihisa might have given up to be a samurai. 

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