Virtual Buso 48 Kannon Pilgrimage #31 Kanshin-ji Temple

 

     Endo Kagemune was said to have fought for the Southern Court.  In 1358, Nitta Yoshioki (1331-1358), the main samurai of the Southern Court in the Kanto Region, was killed in battle.  Kagemune gave up being a samurai and became a fisher in Taima Village in 1361.  One day, he set a net in Sagami River and caught an Arya Avalokitesvara statue.  He enshrined it at home along the riverbank.

     In the 1570’s, Kagemune’s offsprings cultivated the area, and moved to the river terrace. They invited Priest Kanshin, and founded Kanshin-in Temple in 1586.

     After the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Nakajima and Ochiai Families kept cultivating the area, and moved the temple to its present place.  Presumably, the temple was renamed Kanshin-ji then.

Address: 774 Taima, Minami Ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0336

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