Virtual Mogami 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #23 Ensho-ji Temple

 

     The Obanazawa Valley used to have marshland, and the Rokusawa area used to be its bank.  The bank was covered with gigantic muku trees.  To develop rice fields there, people had to cut the trees but they were afraid of their spirits.  A Buddhist monk came to the area, cut the biggest tree down, and carved Buddhist images out of it.  One of them, the image of Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses, was enshrined in Rokusawa.  Later, the image and its hall came to be taken care of by Ensho-ji Temple.

Address: 741-3 Rokusawa, Obanazawa, Yamagata 999-4442

Phone: 0237-28-2319