Virtual Sannohe 33 Kannon Pilgrimage Ota-Kannon-do Hall

 

     It is unknown when and how the Sannohe 33 Kannon Pilgrimage was organized.  The pilgrimage has disappeared only with the fragments of the information of Ota-Kannon-do Hall left.  Even the hall’s membership number hasn’t been passed down.

     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 a completely different local deity.

Marisu-ten Shrine

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