Virtual Aduma 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #15 Genko-ji Temple

     Genko-ji Temple was founded in 1619 at Kiridoshizaka, Yushima.  In 1680, it moved to Matsuba-cho, Asakusa.  After the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Asakusa became a port town to land rice from other provinces.  The rice was the salaries of the samurai who were working in Edo.  20-30 thousand samurai are estimated to have lived in Edo.  As the urban life in Edo became sophisticated, they needed more cash than rice, and a kind of banking system was created: rice brokers.  At first, the rice brokers exchanged rice with cash.  Soon they loaned samurai cash on security of the rice of the next year.  Anyway, the town of Asakusa grew, its population increased, and new temples were founded.

     The Great Kanto Earthquake destroyed the temple in 1923, and it was restructured at Konodai in 1929.

Address: 5 Chome−26−12 Konodai, Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0827

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