Virtual Hiki Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #24 Hozen-ji Temple

 

     Amaterasu and Susano gave birth to 3 girls and 5 boys.  Their 3rd boy was Amatsuhiko, whose offspring included the Saigusa Family.  One of them was dispatched to Kai Province, and his offspring became local officials.  One of their offspring left the province and developed the left bank of the midstream of Ichino River in Musashi Province.  They invited the god of Awa Shrine in Soekami County, Yamato Province, and founded Awasu Shrine in the 1290's.  It iwasn't recorded why the area was named Mizufusa, literally Water Cluster, but we can make a good guess.

     It is unknown when Seizen-ji Temple was founded in Mizufusa, but its foundation must have been after the development in the 13th century.  Sometime, the temple name's Chinese character was misspelled, and the name became Hozen-ji.  Hozen-ji Temple was abolished after the Meiji Restoration, with its Eleven-Faced Ekadasamukha and its hall left behind.

Address: 163 Mizufusa, Namegawa, Hiki District, Saitama 355-0805