Virtual Aduma 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #13 Zensho-ji Temple

     It is unknown when Zensho-ji Temple was founded.  It was first built on a hill but was moved to its present place, along Edo River, in 1611, after the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate.  

     Matsudo used to be a staging post along a highway between Edo and Mito and also along Edo River, an important inland waterway.  Presumably, commanding the highway and the river from the top of the hill, Zensho-ji Temple might have worked as a checkpoint and a fort.  In the Pax Tokugawa, it was moved near the stage town.  On the top of the hill in 1884, the Tojo Residence was built by Tokugawa Akitake (1853-1910), the last lord of the Mito Domain.

     The temple is also the Shimousa 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #19.

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