Virtual Shimokita 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #5 Enju-an Temple

 

     It is unknown when a 75-centimeters-tall Thousand-Armed Thousand-Eyed Eleven-Faced Ekadasamukha statue was enshrined near Ohata Port.  Ohata Port is located at the mouth of Ohata River, which runs from the center of Shimokita Peninsula to north-east into the Tsugaru Straits.  In the latter half of the 16th century, the port started exporting Japanese cypress to the provinces along the Sea of Japan.

     In 1457, Nakatsugawa Shichiroemon drew a map of Shimokita Peninsula.

Between Cape Oma and Cape Shiriya, which used to be called Nanbazali, Shichiroemon dotted (samurai's name is parensized): Oma, Totsuronai, Hebinuma (Kakizaki Shuetsu, Akita Gaiki, and Kushiro Saburobe), Yunosawa (kitagawa Totsuryoken under Kakizaki Shuetsu), Yumoto (Kakizaki Saburoemon), Akagawa, Otsuriya (Onizawa Daigaku under Hikawa Danjo), Hata (Hata Inaba), Shozugawa (Shozugawa Danjo), Tatemawarizeki (Nakatsu Kenmotsu), Ozeki (Oya Yagoro and Yokoshima Kiemon), Omannya-minato, Kogane (Menami Ukyo), Iriguchi, Iwaya, and Cape Nanba.

      Between Cape Oma and Wakinohama Beach, Shichiroemon dotted: Shomiya (Okoppe Takatayu), Kiishi (Harada Toneri), Sai (Santan), Yagoshi (Yagoshi Juro), Shokonji (Kasai), Fukuura (Sasaki Mosaku), Kimonzaki (Onikabuto Shuri), Ozaki (Onizawa Shuzen), Oroshiya (Da Hangbei), Onizawa (Santan, Da Hanggui), Hachimori, Onifuka (Hara Toemon), and Sarumori.

     Between Umadome and Anto, Shichiroemon dotted: Umadome (Tonosaki), Kakisaki (Kakisaki Nobusumi), Kurumagaeshi-shuku (Ishido Tango), Hinokigawa (Hinokigawa Danjo), Uchihinokigawa (Kawauchi Local Administrator Officee), Tazawa, Taniken (Monk Hakkakuro), Junpoji (Hokubuoke Yoshizumi), Minato (Minato Tateyuki), Udagawa (Udagawa Hitachi), Kawamori (Kawamori Shichiro), Anto (Local Administrator Office), Onabedaira (Sato Kan'e, Akahoshi Taro), Matsumura (Sho-Gosho), Shin'yadaira (Hokubuoke), Tanabe (Tanabe Kazusa), Okuuchi (Okuuchi Kuro, Nakayama Kisuke, Yokoyama Kodakumi), Yokohama (Yokohama Kageyu), Yokohira, Onodaira (Osamushi Gyogu), Metori (Suga Mondo, Koyama Hyobu), Tsugaru (Shichido). 

     In the south of Cape Naniwazaki, today's Cape Shiriya, Shichiroemon dotted:  Himotori Beach, Ominato (Ominato Sandayu), Onusa (Local Administrator Office, Nozawa Saburo), Shiranuka (Shiranuka Musashi), Otowa (Fukushi Bizen), Tamamo River (Takanashi Goro), and Ukitai.

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