Virtual Adachi Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage (the South) #7 Kannon-in Temple

 

     Kannon-in Temple was founded in 1366.

     Ashikaga Motouji (1340-1367) became the 1st Kanto Deputy Shogun in Kamakura in 1349. To suppress the samurai who supported the Southern Court in the northern part of the Kanto Region, he had to reside in the south bank of the Iruma River, which runs between the Musashino and Omiya Plateaus, from 1353 to 1361.  He overwhelmed Utsunomiya Ujitsuna (1326-1370) in 1362.  Kannon-in Temple was founded in momentary peacetime.

     After about 2 centuries, when Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) burned Enryaku-ji Temple in Mt. Hiei on September 12th, 1571, Priest Ekai fled from the temple with the image of Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses, and arrived at Kannon-in Temple.  He enshrined the image in the temple.

     Yanagisaki Village became independent in the first half of the 17th century with its own Hikawa Shrine, and Kannon-in Temple became its shrine temple presumably in 1649.

Address: 4 Chome-11-30 Yanagisaki, Kawaguchi, Saitama 333-0861

Yanagisaki-Hikawa Shrine

Address: 5 Chome-20-1 Yanagisaki, Kawaguchi, Saitama 333-0861