Virtual Old Akita 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #6 Kyusho-ji Temple

 

     In 708, Ideha County was organized.  Officials were dispatched to Okachi to prepare for building the fortress as early as 718, and they brought God Omiwa from Yamato Province.  Fujiwara Asakari (?-764) finished building Okachi Fortress in the northern half of the county in 759.  As it took him 3 years, from 757 to 759, to build Monou Fortress in Mutsu Province, it might have taken him about 3 years to build Okachi Fortress.  

     Presumably after the Southern and Northern Courts Period (1336-1392), Kissho-in Temple was armed and formed a powerful religious group with over 20 member temples.  Kyusho-ji Temple was founded in 1384 as a retirement of Kissho-ji Temple's priests.  Under the Tokugawa Shogunate, they disarmed themselves.  In 1667, Kyusho-ji Temple was changed to Soto Chan Sect.

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