Virtual Ueno Oji Komagome 33 Kannon Pilgrimage

     The Ueno Oji Komagome 33 Kannon Pilgrimage was organized in 1771.  It is unknown who organized the pilgrimage, and yet it was organized in a very unique way.  Its organizers compared each of their member temples to the same-numbered member temple of the Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, the very original 33 Kannon pilgrimage.  As for some member temples, they were particular about the scenery or the sight around the temples.  Some other member temples enshrined the same type of Avalokitesvara statue as the same-numbered temples of the Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage did.  The pilgrimage was organized so as that their member temples somewhat resembled their original member temples of Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage.  In other words, each temple should be an allusion to its original temple.