Virtual Koma 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #25 Kinshaku-ji Temple

     Gu Xinjing (?-1366) came from Yuan China to Japan in 1318, settled in Akasawa Village, developed the precincts, and named it Hebei Chanlin in 1324.  He founded Kinshaku-ji Temple in 1327.

     In Yuan China, Gegeen Khan (1302-1323), succeeded to the throne of Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty in 1320. He was the 5th Emperor of Yuan China as well as the ninth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.

     Despite the Emperor's aim to reform the government based on the Confucian principles, or because of his aim, he was assassinated in 1323, and the dynasty started declining. Xinjing might have sought the refuge from the storm at the end of the dynasty.

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