Virtual Old Kasai 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #25 Toko-ji Temple

 

     Minamoto Mitsunaka (912-997) embraced Priest Genshin (942-1017) in 958 in Tada County, Settsu Province.  Genshin carved a Bhaisajyaguru statue for Mitsunaka, who founded Ishimine-ji Temple there.  In 1265, the temple burned down in battle.  The statue was concealed in a stone box.  In 1596, Tada Sogen found the box, and moved the statue to Inaba-do Hall in Gojo, Kyoto.  Later, he built another Ishimine-ji Temple in Gojo, and enshrined the statue in it.

     Toko-ji Temple had been founded by Priest Ryukai at Banba-cho, Honjo, Edo, in 1583.  In 1590, Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) moved to Edo, and established the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1603.  Many people moved to Edo, and Nun Shogo brought the Bhaisajyaguru statue to the temple.  The temple was destroyed in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, and was moved to its present place in 1928.

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