Virtual Tama Aqueduct Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #17 Shozen-ji Temple

 

     When Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598) invaded the Kanto Region in 1590, more than 3,000 samurai, farmers, women, and children shut themselves in Hachioji Castle.  On June 23rd, the castle fell.  Many of the barricaded killed themselves, and the nearby river turned red with their blood for 3 days and nights.

     The Ochiai Family fled to Kami-Numabe Village, Ebara County, Musashi Province.  The family built a hermitage near one of 6 ancient burial mounds in the village and prayed for the comfort of the dead in the other world.  In 1639, Ochiai Yozaemon and others changed the hermitage into a temple and named it Shozen-ji.

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