Virtual Old Kasai 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #9 Manpuku-ji Temple

     Manpuku-ji Temple was founded by Monk Tofuku at Shimo-Kinegawa Village in 1527.  The appearance of Kinegawa Village in a document dates back to 1398.

     In Kyoto in 1527, those in the center of the Ashikaga Shogunate escaped to Omi Province, and thus the shogunate substantially collapsed.  Another Ashikaga Shogunate was born in Sakai, Izumi Province.

     In the Kanto Region, the Kanto Deputy Shogunate had been splitted into Koga, Horikoshi, and Oyumi Kanto Deputy Shoguns.  The Later Hojo Clan had occupied most of Musashi Provincee, and Katsushika County in Shimousa Province was their front line against the Oyumi Kanto Deputy Shogun.  By the time they fought the Battles of Konodai in 1538 and 1563, they had occupied Kasai Castle in the county, and it was their forefront.  Yet, it is unknown which side Kinegawa Village belonged to in 1527.

     On August 5th, 1910, it started raining for days.  On 11th, a typhoon passed by the Boso Peninsula.  On 14th, another typhoon passed through Yamanashi and Gunma Prefectures.  They caused the 1910 Great Kanto Floods, which killed 769 people, made 78 people missing, destroyed 2121 houses, and washed away 2796 houses in the Kanto Region alone.  Manpuku-ji Temple suffered serious damage, and when a new drainage canal was built for the Ara River from 1913 to 1930, it was moved to its present place.  In 1965, the canal officially became the Ara River.

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