Virtual Saitama City Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage #32 Niizutsumi-Kannon-do Hall

 

     It is unknown when a Kannon-do hall was built with its Eleven-Faced Ekadasamukha image in Niizutsumi Village, Adachi County, Musashi Province.  Niizutsumi literally means New Levee.  The village was independent from Futtono Village in the first half of the 17th century.  Niizutsumi Village started with 8 households and had only 11 households even in 1828.  The village couldn't support an independent official Buddhist temple.  The hall, however, has its own small graveyard.

     The hall is called Niizutsumi-Kannon-do Hall for expediency, and is also used as a community center.

Address: 19-2 Niizutsumi, Minuma Ward, Saitama, 337-0013