Virtual Musashi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #23 Jisso-in Temple

 

     Gyoki (668-749) visited Yokonuma Pond sometime between 729 and 749.  He found a holy wood in the pond, picked it up, carved a statue of Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses, founded a temple, and enshrined the statue in the temple.

     On their way to Mutsu Province to suppress Abe Sadato (1019-1062), Minamoto Yoriyoshi (988-1075) and his son, Yoshiie (1039-1106), stayed at Ogen-ji Temple in Iko, Adachi County, Musashi Province.  They prayed to the Arya Avalokitesvara statue in Jisso-in Temple for their victory.  On their way back to Kyoto after the victory, they presented 13 acres of farmland to Jisso-in Temple.  Fujiwara Narizane gave a lot of money to build magnificent temple buildings.  Narizane was the governor of Musashi Province from 1095 to 1102.

     The buildings burned down in 1264.  The temple was revived by Priest Ryosei in 1275, but its buildings were destroyed in the 1855 Edo Earthquake.  In 1889, the temple was rebuilt.

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