Virtual North Kawachi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #30 Shoen-ji Temple

 

     It is unknown when Shoen-ji Temple was founded.  It was first documented in 1725.

     As the temple was located along the East-Koya Highway and its ingo is Nanko-in, it might have had something to do with Kusunoki Masashige (?-1336), one of the most famous historical figures who destroyed the Kamakura Shogunate in 1333.

     In one corner of the temple's precincts, many stone images and monuments that had lost their places due to nearby residential land development and road widening have been collected and are carefully enshrined.  The oldest stone monument with the 6 Chinese characters of Namomitabhaya Buddhaya dates back to 1559, but it does not necessarily mean the temple was founded before the year.  The temple used to belong to Yuzu Nembutsu School of Pure Land Buddhism.

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