Virtual Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #7 Komyo-ji Temple

 

     According to Tazoe Hidenori, who was a vassal of Matsudaira Munetoshi, the lord of Hamamatsu castle, a fisher in Koiso, Yorogi County, Sagami Province, found an image of Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses.  He enshrined the image at home.  Several years later, Priest Dogi changed the home into a temple and named it Komyo-ji.  The original image was about 20 centimeters tall.  Gyoki (668-749) was said to have carved a cover statue of Arya Avalokitesvara for the image.  The cover statue is about 180 centimeters tall.  Then, Unkei made (?-1223) a display statue of Arya Avalokitesvara, which is about 1 meter tall.

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