Virtual Shimokita 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #12 Jodo-ji Temple

 

     In August, 1455, 2 years before Nanbu Masatsune, the 13th head of the family, attacked Kakizaki Nobusumi in Kakizaki Fortress, Nakatsugawa Shichiroemon dotted 58 place names and 46 samurai names on his rough map of Shimokita Penninsula.  Shimofuro Hot Spring was mapped as the hot spring source in Yunosawa, which was ruled by Nobusumi.  In 1656, it was documented that Nanbu Shigenobu (1616-1702) bathed in the hot spring.  It isn't clear who ruled the hot spring after the Nanbu Family ousted the Kakizaki Family to Hokkaido, but it was in the territory of the Nanbu Family in the Edo Period (1603-1867).

     Jodo-ji Temple was founded in 1647 with the cast-iron Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses, as its main deity.

Address: Shimofuro-19 Shimofuro, Kazamaura, Shimokita District, Aomori 039-4501

Phone: 0175-36-2122