Virtual Ueno Oji Komagome 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #22 Choan-ji Temple

      Priest Rozan (?-1724) built Choan Annex in 1696 in the residence of Ando Nobutomo (1671-1732), who became a commissioner of temples and shrines under the Tokugawa Shogunate.  In 1712, it was approved as an official temple and moved to its present place.

     The temple buildings were badly damaged in the 1772 Great Meiwa Fire, which burned169 daimyo residences, 170 bridges, and 382 temples.  14,700 people were killed and 4,000 went missing.  Priest Yokan (?-1773) repaired the buildings.

     The precincts have old itabi dated 1276, 1285, 1300, and 1396, so it must have been a holy place even at the beginning of the Kamakura Shogunate, the first samurai government.  The precincts also have the grave of Kano Hogai (1828-1888), who was one of the last artists who belonged to the Kano School, which lasted from the 15th century to the 19th century and which was the largest school fo Japanese painting.

     Choan-ji Temple claims its main deity, the thousand-armed Sahasrabhuja statue, to have copied the one the Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #22 Soji-ji Temple enshrined.

Address: 5 Chome-2-22 Yanaka, Taito City, Tokyo 110-0001

Phone: 03-3828-1094