Virtual Kesen 33 Kannon Pigrimage #23 Tabata Kannon-do Hall

 

     Akasaki was a fishing village along Ofunato Bay.  One day, a 4-centimeters-tall image of Thousand-Armed Sahasrabhuja was netted.  The image had been handed down by the Tabata Family of Yamaguchi Hamlet of the village.  The family's ancestors used to be mountain ascetic.  When the Shida Family of Ohora Hamlet of the village adopted a boy from the Tabata Family, he brought the image with him.  The Shida Family built a Kannon-do hall for the image in their yard.  In 1915, the neighbors built Tabata-Kannon-do Hall in its present place.  Usually not the original image but the replica of it, which is 10 centimeters tall.

Address: Ohora-113-1 Akasakicho, Ofunato, Iwate 022-0007

Yamaguchi Akasakicho, Ofunato, Iwate 022-0007