Virtual Koma 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #29 Choju-ji Temple

  

     Choju-ji Temple was revived by Priest Shuden (?-1736).

     Presumably, the temple and the community which had supported the temple were damaged by the Great Kyoho Famine.

     Bad weather started at the end of 1731.  In 1732, the rainy season lasted for 2 months, and that caused a cold summer.  Harmful planthoppers bred on rice plants.  In 46 domains, their rice harvest reduced to 27 percent.  969,900 people died of hunger.  In the Kanto Region, tax increases imposed by Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684-1751) had weakened the resilience of peasants. 

     When was the temple founded?  No one knows.  The temple enshrines a horse-headed Hayagriva statue.

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