Virtual North Settsu 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #8 Saifuku-ji Temple

 

     In 1581, 2 years before Toyotomi Hideyoshi started constructing Osaka Castle in 1583, they enshrined Indra Sakra in a hall on the opposite bank of the Ina River from Mt. Satsuki to guard the North-West of the castle.

     In the north-west of the hall, there was a hermitage.  When Osaka Castle fell in 1615, a defeated, fleeing samurai came to the hermitage, carrying an Amitabha image on his back.  He left the image in the hermitage.  Obe Village was first documented in 1617.  In the 1620's, Osaka Castle was renovated under the Tokugawa Shogunate, which destroyed the Toyotomi Clan.  In 1626, the hermitage was moved near the hall, and they composed Saifuku-ji Temple.  Another high-ranking lady in Osaka Castle left the Thousand-Armed Sahasrabhuja dry-lacquer statue, which is also enshrined in the Main Hall with the Amitabha image as the main deity.　　　

Address: 3-chome-3 Oobe, Kawanishi, Hyogo 666-0014

Phone: 072-759-1950

Mt. Satsuki

Address: 5 Chome Satsukigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-0029