Virtual Modern Edo 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #23 Chokoku-ji Temple

 

     In the Shibuya Field in Shimo-Shibuya Village, an eleven-faced Ekadasamukha statue was enshrined in a small temple.  The statue was said to have been carved out of the same tree with the statue which was enshrined in Hase-dera Temple in Yamato Province.  When Yamaguchi Shigemasa (1564-1635) moved to Edo, following Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616), he built his second residence in the Shibuya Field and changed the small temple to a real temple, Chokoku-ji, as his family temple.

     In 1716, when the Modern Edo 33 Kannon Pilgrimage was organized, the temple built a 7 meter tall Avalokitesvara statue and put the original statue in it.  The temple was modern enough to update itself constantly.

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