Virtual Kodama Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #17 Kogon-ji Temple

 

     Kogon-ji Temple was founded by Priest En'yu (?-1408) presumably at the end of the Southern and Northern Courts Period (1336-1392).  Inomata Kuninori (?-1590), who had been born to the Tominaga Family, revived the temple to pray for the comfort of his adoptive father, Noriyori (?-1584), whose posthumous Buddhist name was Sogon.

     The Inomata Family might have been a member of the Inomata Corps.

     In ancient times, there used to be the Musashi Seven Corps. The most part of Musashi Province was plateaus deeply covered with volcanic-ash soil, which was suitable for stock farming, not for rice growing. In ancient times, many of the naturalized Silla people then were sent to Musashi Province, and engaged in the stock farming. That stimulated local people there, and many stock farms were set up, including 6 imperial stock farms. The custodians of those farms later formed small-scale would-be-samurai families. By marriage, those would-be-samurai families composed 7 corps on the Musashi Plateaus. The Inomata Corps was one of the 7.

     The temple's main deity is Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses.

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