Virtual Shonai 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #22 Tosen-ji Temple

 

     According to tradition, a Kannon-do hall was founded in Inako Village, Tagawa County, Ideha Province, in 807.  The area was in the estuary of Aka River, or in the lagoon at the time, and it is just impossible.  Strangely many temples and shrines were founded in 807.

     In 806, inspectors were dispatched to Tokaido, Hokurikudo, San'indo, San'yodo, Nankaido, and Saikaido Regions, or to all the regions except Tosando Region.  In 807, Kiyomizu-dera, Hase-dera, and Zentsu-ji Temples were founded.  More than 10 percent of the 88 member temples of the Shikoku Pilgrimage are said to have been founded in the same year.  In 810, the Chamberlains' Office was put up.  All in all, the central government strengthened their control over local administration.  In the central government, for a while, the Fujiwara Clan gained hegemony.

     Tosen-ji Temple was founded by Priest Unsatsu in 1647 on the natural levee of Aka River.  By the time, under the Tokugawa Shogunate, the area could have been reclaimed and its population might have increased.  They needed an official Buddhist Temple under the religion policy of the shogunate.

Visitors of the temple have been replaced

Generation by generation.

Teachings of it have been immutable.

Address: 85 Inoko, Mikawa, Higashitagawa District, Yamagata 997-1316

Phone: 0235-66-2023