Virtual Adachi Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage (the South) #9 Futatsu-do Temple

 

     Shiba Village was developed in the wetland at the foot of the Omiya Plateau presumably after Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) moved to the Kanto Region in 1590.  In the village, the Suga Family was the most powerful.  When the villagers built their Kannon-do hall in 1624, the Suga Family built their own with Thousand-Armed Sahasrabhuja enshrined and the other villagers built another with Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses.  Later, the two were connected, and the connected hall looks symmetrical as the halls had the same shape and the same size.  Futatsu-do literally means Twin Halls. Its (Their?) symmetrical appearance is very rare.

     The Avalokitesvara statue was listed as the #9 deity of the Adachi Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage (the south).  A majority decision?

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