Virtual Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #6 Chokoku-ji Temple

     There was a spring in Iiyama Village, Aiko County, Sagami Province.  An image of Eleven-Faced Ekadasamukha made of Jambunada-suvarna appeared from the spring in the 720's.  A hut was built to enshrine the image.  In 807, the hut was changed into a temple.

     Tradition says, Minamoto Yoritomo (1147-1199) ordered Adachi Yoshikage (1210-1253) to revive the temple.  However, as you see, if it had been Yoritomo that ordered, he must have ordered Yoshikage's father, Kagemori (?-1248).  If it had been Yoshikage who was ordered, it must have been the third Shogun, Sanetomo (1192-1219), who ordered.

Address: 5605 Iiyama, Atsugi Kanagawa 243-0213

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