Virtual Adachi Bando 33 Kannon Pilgrimage (the South) #27 Ryoko-in Temple

 

     Ryoko-in Temple was founded by Priest Zen'yo in Aoki Village, Adachi County, Musashi Province, in 1625.

     It is unknown when Aoki Village was developed along the Iruma River.  As Aoki-Hikawa Shrine is said to have been founded at the turn of the 15th century, the village might have been developed in those days.  A Buddhist image of Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses, was made at the end of the Warring States Period.  The population of the village increased and Shimo-Aoki Village became independent.  Under the religion policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate, every villager was supposed to belong to an official Buddhist temple.  Presumably, Ryoko-in Temple was founded to meet villagers' needs.

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