Virtual Tama Aqueduct Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage #5 Gensho-ji Temple

     Gensho-ji Temple was founded by Nanjusen (?-1543) and was financially supported by Ota Morihisa (?-1579), who was an illegitimate child of Ota Suketada (?-1479).

     Ota Suketada (?-1479) was a younger brother of Dokan (1432-1486), who built Edo Castle.  When Suketada was staying in Ishihara Village, he got a village woman pregnant.  She gave birth to a boy, and the boy called himself Ota Morihisa.  Oral tradition says that he died in 1579 at the age of 120.  That’s unbelievable.  It seems his offspring called themselves Ota Morihisa for a couple of generations.  When Mamiya Kotonobu (1777-1841) was compiling the New Topography and Chronology on Musashi Province  at the beginning of the 19th century, Morihisa’s descendant, Zen’emon, was the head of the village.  Ota Morihisa might have given up being a samurai.

     Gensho-ji Temple is also the #32 member temple of the Tama River 34 Kannon Pilgrimage.

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