Virtual Aduma 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #26 Saifuku-ji

 

     It is unknown when Saifuku-ji Temple was founded.  It was said that it might have been either Shinkaku or Saifuku who founded the temple.

     The precincts have 2 stone towers which are called Sir Third.  They are considered to be the monuments  or memorials of Fushihara Nobueda (1720-1791), who was not a samurai but an aristocrat in the Edo Period.  He was appointed the Third in the Order of Aristocracy in 1756, and was appointed as the Second in 1777.  The monuments could have been built sometime between 1756 and 1777.  He was a professor of Confucianism in the Imperial University, and collected good deeds in Japan and China to compile an anthology.

     The temple was reduced to ashes in the Boshin War (1868-1869), which were fought between the Imperial and the Tokugawa Shogunate Armies.

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