Virtual North Kawachi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #16 Sozen-ji Temple

 

     Sozen lived in Kisabe Village.  He founded a hermitage sometime between 1573 and 1592.  The hermitage became a Buddhist temple and was named Sozen-ji after him before 1691, when the temple was first documented.

     In 1790, Hatakeyama Yoshitoshi (1720-1799) became a supporter of the temple, and its renovation was finished in 1794.

     The Hatakeyama Family was an ally of the Ashikaga Shogunate in the Southern and Northern Courts Period (1336-1392), and was rewarded by the shogunate with the hereditary position of Guardian Samurai in Yamashiro, Kii, Kawachi, Ecchu, and Noto Provinces, at the end of the 14th century.  They gave birth to hyphenated branches in the provinces.  Many branches declined but the Kawachi-Hatakeyama Family maintained their ruling power till the end of the Warring States Period (1467-1568), and Yoshizane (1579-1674) became subject to Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) in 1601.  He died in Kyoto and was buried in Anpuku-ji Temple in Kawachi Province.  Yoshitoshi was the 5th head of the family as a vassal of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Address: 5 Chome-9-10 Kisabe, Katano, Osaka 576-0052

Phone: 072-892-3423

Anpuku-ji Temple

Address: 7-21 Tamatecho, Kashiwara, Osaka 582-0028

Phone: 072-978-7023