Virtual Honjo Domain 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #16 Entsu-ji Temple

     Entsu-ji Temple was founded in 1534 in Numada Village, which is supposed to have been ruled by the Kataho Family, who were based in Kataho Fortress.  The fortress site is Kujakukan Park.

     Between the temple and the fortress, there used to be the Nishime Lagoon.  As a lagoon is called kata in Japanese, the family name had something to do with the lagoon.  The lagoon was about 1,300 meters wide from north to south and 1,400 meters wide from east to west in 1647.  Rice fields were reclaimed by drainage from the lagoon and it finally disappeared in 1835.  Numada means Wetland Rice-Fields.

Address: Shikimori-27 Nishimemachi Numata, Yurihonjo, Akita 018-0604

Phone: 0184-33-3049

Kujakukan Park

Address: Tatenoushiro-10 Nishimemachi Nishime, Yurihonjo, Akita 018-0603