Virtual Shimousa 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #30 Hoju-in Temple

 

     Hoju-in Temple was supposed to have been founded in 1528.

     Chiba Katsutane (1471-1532) became the head of the Chiba Family in 1492, and was based in Moto-Sakura Castle. He made his son, Masatane (1495-1546), the head of the family in 1509.  In 1520, Ashikaga Yoshiaki (?-1538) defeated Hara Tanetaka (?-1536), a vassal of the Chiba Family, occupied his castle, Oyumi Castle, and became an Oyumi Kanto Deputy Shogun.  Masatane was caught between the Koga Kanto Deputy Shogun in the north and the Oyumi Kanto Deputy Shogun in the south.  Hoju-in Temple was founded in those days.  The temple was located on a hill which commanded a river between Lake Tega-numa and Kinu River, one of the most important inland waterways in the Kanto Region.

     It is unknown who built the temple for what purpose, whether the builder was for Koga Deputy shogun in the north, for the Oyumi Kanto Deputy Shogun in the south, for the Chiba Family in the east, or was someone trying to be independent from them.

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