Virtual Mogami 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #25 Yosen-ji Temple

 

     It is unknown when the image of Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses, was enshrined in the middle of the Obanazawa Valley.

     According to tradition, the image encouraged the local people to cultivate wilderness.  So far, the remains of the Jomon Period (14000 B.C.-300 B.C.) have been unearthed but not those of the Yayoi Period (300 B.C.- 300 A.D.) in the valley.  People with advanced rice cultivation and with Buddhism could have come to the valley from the outside into the Jomon Culture society.

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