Virtual Yashima Domain 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #6 Kawadaisan-Kannon-do Hall

 

     After the 1679 Peasant Revolt, Kaneko Hisazaemon changed his second name to Iehiro, and Kosukegawa Saemon changed his second name to Mitsutaka.  The names Iehiro and Mitsutaka sounded like more highranking samurai.  The two and Iehiro's son, Ieyoshi, had a Thousand-Armed Sahasrabhuja statue cast, and enshrined it in Nanokamachi Village, Yuri County, Dewa Province, on September 21st, 1711.  The village was first documented in 1612.

     Nanokamachi's -machi usually used for the names of townships, and Nanokamachi Village sounds odd.

     Oi Yoshihisa is said to have built Hachimori Fortress sometime between 1467 and 1469.  Nanokamachi is believed to have been located in the castle town.  After the Warring States Period, the fortress was reduced to the residence of the Ikoma Family, and the fortress town could have shrinked.

     Anyway, it seems the Yashima 33 Kannon Pilgrimage was organized after the 1679 Peasant Revolt.

Address: Yamadera-14 Yashimamachi, Nanokamachi, Yurihonjo, Akita 015-0404

Hachimori Fortress Site (Yajima Fortress Site)

Address: 7-1 Yashimamachi Yashimamachi, Yurihonjo, Akita 015-0402