Virtual Tama Aqueduct Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage #16 Seikyo-ji Temple

 

     After the collapse of the Kamakura Shogunate in 1333, 8 samurai left Kamakura and developed the wilds in Tama County, Musashi Province.  They founded a shrine and enshrined their 8 swords.  The shrine came to be called Yatsurugi, namely 8 Swords.  They didn't identify the shrine's deity.  Their offspring came to believe the shrine’s divinity came from Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses.

     Seikyo-ji Temple was founded as its shrine temple presumably after the Tokugawa Shogunate ordered every citizen to be registered in a temple.

     Seikyo-ji Temple merged Tozen-ji Temple after World War II.

Address: 3 Chome−34−2 Kikunodai, Chofu, Tokyo 182-0007

Phone: 042-486-7676

Yatsurugi Shrine

Address: 3 Chome Kikunodai, Chofu, Tokyo 182-0007