Virtual Ueno Oji Komagome 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #20 Komyo-in Temple

     It is unknown when Komyo-in Temple was founded, but the temple was alreasy listed in a land register dated July, 1591, which Asaka Chobe (1883-1945) stored.  It could have been founded in the Warring States Period, and was revived by Priest Chokai.

     Asaka Chobe was born in Takinogawa Village, Toshima County, Tokyo Prefecture, graduated from the University of Tokyo, and became a lawyer.  In 1920, he was elected to the House of Representatives.  His wife, Fusa (1894-1986), was a pioneer of medical social workers in Japan.  Chobe's ancestors might have supported the foundation of Komyo-in Temple.

     The Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #20 Yoshimine-dera Temple enshrines a thousand-armed Sahasrabhuja statue which was made of wood, lacquered, and foiled.  A guide book published by Tokyo Municipal Government in 1973 suggested that the statue of Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses, of Komyo-in Temple and the thousand-armed Sahasrabhuja statue of Yoshimine-dera Temple were produced in a similar way.

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