Virtual Upper Tada Manor 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #6 Jiun-do Temple

 

     It is unknown when Jiun-do Temple was founded in Hazukawa Village, Kawabe County, Settsu Province.  The village was first documented in 1333, when Kumon Kagemitsu ruled the village.  He claimed he belonged to the Minamoto Clan.  In 1368, the village had 43 households.

     It is also unknown when the temple was abolished.

     Geographically inferring, it could have been a shrine temple of Yasaka Shrine.  If so, it might have been abolished after the Meiji Restoration Government issued the Gods and Buddhas Separation Order in 1868.

     It is unknown when Yasaka Shrine was founded, but it was revived in 1526.

     Hosokawa Takakuni (1484-1531) replaced Ashikaga Yoshitane (1466-1523) with the son of Ashikaga Yoshizumi (1480-1511), Yoshiharu (1511-1550), in 1521.  Takakuni was in his heyday.  Lights, however, are usually followed by shadows.  In July, 1526, Hosokawa Tadakata (?-1531), Takakuni’s cousin, fabricated the secret communication between Takakuni’s vassal, Kozai Motomori (?-1526), and Hosokawa Harumoto (1514-1563).  It wasn’t recorded what intention Tadakata had.  Motomori was said to be uncultured and uneducated.  Anyway, Takakuni just flew into a fury and had Motomori assassinated.  Motomori’s brothers, Hatano Motokiyo (?-1530) and Yanagimoto Kataharu (?-1530), got furious in turn.  They rebelled against Takakuni in their homeland, Tamba Province.  Motokiyo shut himself up in Yakami Castle and Kataharu in Kannosan Castle.  Takakuni was astonished and ordered Tadakata to siege Kannosan Castle.  He also dispatched Kawarabayashi Shurinosuke and Ikeda Danjo to Yakami Castle on October 23rd.  There were some skirmishes for several days.  On November 5th, Naito Kunisada (?-1553), the lord of Yagi Castle,who was sympathetic toward the brothers, withdrew from the encirclement of Kannosan Castle.  On November 30th, Akai Goro, the lord of Kuroi Castle, attacked the besiegement of Kannosan Castle and broke it.  Takakuni’s army raised the siege of the castles.  On their way back, Shurinosuke and Danjo had infighting.  Tadataka just ran away.  Takakuni’s rule exposed its vulnerability in half a year.

     Presumably, Yasaka Shrine was involved in the fighting and was destroyed.

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