Virtual Tama Aqueduct Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #27 Ensen-ji Temple

     The statue of Prince Shotoku (574-622) was enshrined along Karasuyama River in Ebara County, Musashi Province, in the latter half of the 14th century.  A village was formed around the hall, and it was called Taishido Village, namely Prince Shotoku Hall Village, presumably when the Later Hojo Clan ruled the Kanto Region.  After the clan was destroyed and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) moved to the Kanto Region in 1590, the population of Edo increased and Monk Kenkei found his business chance in the region.  He visited the region with his statue of Prince Shotoku and that of Eleven-Faced Ekadasamukha.  He had an affinity with Taishido Village, which had their own statue of Prince Shotoku, and founded Ensen-ji Temple in 1595.  His Eleven-Faced Ekadasamukha might have become the #27 deity of the Tama Aqueduct Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage.

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