Virtual Buso 48 Kannon Pilgrimage #38 Jigen-ji Temple

     Jigen-ji Temple was said to have been founded in 1860 by Priest Takusan.  The foundation in 1860 is too late for ordinary Japanese temples.

     The 1855 Edo Earthquake hit the Kanto Region with a death toll of 10,000 in Edo alone.  It destroyed 14,000 buildings in the city.

     On August 25, 1856, a big typhoon hit the Kanto Region with the death toll of 100,000.

     Jigen-ji Temple might have been destroyed in one of the 2 natural disasters, and could have been reconstructed in 1860.  Until 2013, the community center was in front of the temple, so the temple might have worked as an assembly hall for villagers till the modernization of Japan.

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