Virtual Shimousa 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #24 Zenryu-ji Temple

 

     Washinoya Fort used to be located around the height which has an altitude of 15 meters in the south of Lake Tega-numa.  The fort, which was owned and managed by the Someya Family, might have worked as a checkpoint of the inland waterway along the lake.  The family was a vassal of the Takagi Family, but after the downfall of the Takagi Family in 1590, the Someya Family became farmers, and many Someyas still live in the area.

     Zenryu-ji Temple was founded in the fort in 1493, when the Takagi Family was emerging as a new ruler of the inland waterway between Edo Bay and Koga, where the Koga Kanto Deputy Shogun was based.

     Zenryu-ji Temple was moved to its present place in 1611 after the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the arrival of the Pax Tokugawa.

Address: 568 Washinoya, Kashiwa, Chiba 270-1443

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