Virtual Old Nukanobu 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #3 Torigoe Kannon

 

     The #2 member temple of the Virtual Old Nukanobu 33 Kannon Pilgrimage has been lost. 

     Mount Torigoe is 375 meters above sea level.  Its peak has a 50-meters-tall cliff with caves.

     Suzuki Unkyaku lived in Yamashiro Province at the end of the 8th century.  He visited Mount Torigoe and enshrined an image of Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses, in one of the caves in 807.  The precincts became Iwaya-ji Temple and belonged to Tiantai Sect sometime between 969 and 984.  The image is called Torigoe-Kannon. 

     Other caves enshrine Hakusan Shrine, Eleven-Faced Ekadasamukha, Bhaisajyaguru, and Akasagarbha.

Address : Miyakozawa, Torigoe, Ichinohe-cho, Ninohe-gun, Iwate Prefecture, 028-5313