Virtual Eastern Edo 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #20 Tengaku-in Temple

      Tengaku-in Temple was founded by Priest Zenku near Sakura-no-baba Riding Grounds in 1590, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598) destroyed the Later Hojo Clan and ordered Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) to move from the Tokai Region to the Kanto Region.  Later, the temple moved to Bakuro-cho.  It was burned down in the 1657 Meireki Great Fire, and Priest Buntetsu revived it in its present place.

     The 1677 Boso Earthquake caused a big tsunami which killed 569 people and washed away 1893 houses on October 9th. 

     The 5th priest, Buntetsu requested Ota Masayoshi, who had molded a Ksitigarbha statue for the inner sanctuary of Mt. Koya in 1666, to cast a Amitabha blonze sitting statue in 1680.  The statue is at the depths of the graveyard of the temple.

     The temple enshrines an Avalokitesvara statue, which was made in the continent, and is also the #18 deity of Edo Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage.

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