Virtual Yamanote 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #14 Kannon-ji Temple

 

     Kannon-ji Temple was founded by Priest Ken'ei in Shomo-Totsuka Village in 1682, 2 years after Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641-1680), the 4th Shogun, died.  The temple's main deity is an eleven-faced Ekadasamukha statue which is about 60 centimeters tall and which was said to have been carved by Enchin (814-891).  If it is true, it must have been a person of consequence that presented the statue to the temple, however nameless she or he might have been.

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