Virtual Sannohe 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #? Ota-Kannon-do Hall

 

     Sannohe 33 Kannon Pilgrimage is supposed to have been organized before the Meiji Restoration, and it has lost all its member temples but one.  Even the membership number of the surviving temple, Ota-Kannon-do Hall, is forgotten.

     There used to be a Kannon-do hall in Ota Hamlet, Matashige Village, Sannohe County, Mutsu Province.  Matashige Village was first documented in 1297.  The village had a stock farm at the beginning of the 16th century.

     The hamlet has a shrine but no Kannon-do hall.  It is unknown if the hall had something to do with the shrine.  It is also unknown where the hall’s Avalokitesvara image has gone.

     The shrine is called Marisu-ten.  The Buddhist deity Marici is usually called Marishi-ten in Japanese or Molizhitian in Chinese.  It is unknown whether Marisu is a local accent of Marishi or it is a completely different local deity.

Address: Ota, Kuraishimatashige, Gonohe, Sannohe District, Aomori 039-1703