Virtual Yashima Domain 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #26 ?

 

     A Kannon-do hall is located at the northern end of Takahashi Stock Farm.  The hall enshrines an Eleven-Faced Ekadasamukha image, which was taken care of by Shoemon of Koya Hamlet, Shimo-Kawauchi Village.  The hall could have been along the border between Shimo-Kawauchi and Fushimi Villages.  Fushimi Village was also first documented in 1612.

Anyway, was Shoemon an offspring of Shozaemon, who was one of the originators of the 1679 Peasant Revolt?  If so, the Eleven-Faced Ekadasamukha image could have been enshrined to pray for the comfort of those who sacrificed themselves, in a place where samurai didn't notice it.

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