Virtual Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #4 Hase-dera Temple

 

     Fujiwara Fuhito (659-720) had 4 sons: Muchimaro (680-737), who became the Prime Minister, Fusasaki (681-737), Umakai (694-737), and Maro (695-737), who all became ministers. 

     Fusasaki's political ability was the best among his brothers.  In 703, when he was in his early twenties, he became a regional inspector for the first time after the enforcement of the Ritsuryo Code in 701, and conducted administrative inspection of the Tokaido Region.  In September, 709, he was appointed as a regional inspector of both Tokai and Tozan Regions, and was again in charge of the regional patrol duty.  In 736, he invited Priest Tokudo and founded Hase-dera Temple in Kamakura, enshrining the statue of Eleven-Faced Ekadasamukha.  According to a legend, Tokudo carved 2 Ekadasamukha statues out of a camphor tree in Yamato Province.  He enshrined one of the two in Hase-dera Temple in the province, and brought the other to Kamakura.

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