Virtual Tama Aqueduct Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #1 Gyozen-ji Temple

 

     Nagasaki Shigemitsu was subject to Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519-1560).  After Yoshimoto was killed by Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), he was fed up with the confusion of the Imagawa Clan, and moved to Seta, Ebara County, Musashi Province, with his family's temple, Doei-ji, and became subject to the Later Hojo Clan.  After the collapse of the Later Hojo Clan in 1590, he fed up with being a samurai and became a farmer in Seta.  After his death, the temple was renamed Gyozen-ji After his posthumous Buddhist name, Gyozen.  The Seta villagers became fed up with the floods of the Tama River, and moved the village from the river bank to the top of the plateau in 1626.  The temple commanded great views, and eventually the Eight Views of Tama River or the Eight Views of Gyozenji were chosen after the Eight Views of Xiaoxiang in China.  Which places were included in the Eight Views was different from selector to selector, but the Autumn Moon in Tama River, which was also depicted by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was definitely the one.

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