Virtual Adachi Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage (the South) #26 Namiki-Kannon-do Hall

 

     It is unknown when Yokozone Village was developed in Adachi County, Musashi Province, along the Iruma River.  Yokozone was one of the place names which contained "sone" in themselves, although "sone" pronounced "zone" due to euphony in the Japanese language.  "Sone" meant a natural levee, so the village must have been built on one of natural levees along the Iruma River.

    When Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) moved to the Kanto Region, the village already existed.  In the middle of the 17th century, Namiki Hamlet was developed in Yokozone Village.  Although the hamlet didn't have its own temple, the locals built a Kannon-do hall when Adachi Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage was organized in 1705, enshrining Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses.

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