Virtual Gyotoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #1 Tokusho-ji Temple

     Priest En’yo built a hermitage in Hon-Gyotoku in 1600 and named it Fuko-in.  For some reason or another, Tokugawa Ieyasu embraced the hermitage in 1610, named it Tokusho-ji, and made it a branch temple of Shogan-ji Temple.

     Apparently, Tokugan-ji’s toku comes from Tokugawa and Tokugan-ji’s gan comes from Gansho-ji.  It is unknown why Ieyasu put that much importance on Tokugan-ji.  Presumably, En’yo died in 1610, and he could have been personally very important for Ieyasu.

     When Sugenin or Go (1573-1626), a wife of the 2nd Shogun, Hidetada (1579-1632), died, her personal guardian Buddhist image was given to Tokugan-ji.  So, En’yo might have been important for her, too.  In 1648, the 3rd Shogun, Iemitsu (1604-1651), paid the temple for annual memorial services of his late grandmother, Go.

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