Virtual Aduma 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #4 Hosho-ji Temple

 

     Monk Ryokan built a hermitage and enshrined Acalanatha in it in 1570.

     In 1569, the Takeda Clan in Kai Province invaded Musashi Province.  The Later Hojo Clan was besieged in some castles and barely kept away the Takeda Army, who avoided a prolonged war.  Ryokan might have lost something or someone.

     After Ryokan's death, Monk Kanku (?-1607) succeeded the statue and hermitage in 1586.

     In 1585, Hojo Ujimasa (1538-1590) realized the largest territory for the Later Hojo Clan.  The clan was, however, destroyed in 1590 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598), whose son, Hideyori (1593-1615), was killed by Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616).

     In 1612, 9 years after the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunata, the town of Edo grew and expanded, and Priest Doban changed the hermitage into a temple which belonged to the Shingon Sect and named it Hosho-ji.

     The temple lost its original documents in the floods in 1786 and 1864.

     In 1915, a new drainage of Ara River was built and the temple was moved 600 meters east to its present place.

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