Virtual Tama Aqueduct Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage #25 Nenbutsu-do Temple

 

     In the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), people tried cultivating the valleys and ravines of the Musashino Plateau from the south.  Where Sen River meets the southernmost tip of the Musashino Plateau, there is a hill.  A Bhaisajyaguru statue was enshrined in a hut there, which was called Yakushi-do, namely  Bhaisajyaguru Hall.  The hill came to be called Karasuyama.

     In the Warring States Period (1467-1568), Kira Shigetaka used the hall for a training center to chant Namo Amitabhaya Buddhaya, and the hall came to be also called Nenbutsu-do, namely to Chant Buddhaya.

     In the Edo Period (1603-1867), the plateau was developed and the population there increased.  Accordingly, the number of the dead also increased.  In 1688, the temple's precincts came to be used as a graveyard.

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